COBOL Copybook to DDS conversion
cowboy007
this is one more newbie to AS400. I have been working with Mainframes
and Z.OS and recently shifted to a shop which uses AS400.
I am extremely comfortable with Fileaid, and now, since the time i
understood the way PFs are created and are viewed through DDS to be
in formatted manner, its really getting tough for me. Because, the
shop i am using, for smoe reason, dont have DDS defined for all the
files.
So, I am looking at any option/utility where i can provide the COBOL
Copybook as input and, a source member would be generated with a DDS
written accordingly?
Did anyone hear/see anything of that sort?
Peter Kinsman
Copybooks into XML and other things. Years ago I wrote an RPGII program to
use the F and I specifications from an RPG program to create a DDS PF
member. A combination of the two would probably do what you want, although
looking at an example of a Copybook, elementary items would map to real
fields, but aggregate items would need to be handled as some kind of alias.
You are welcome to a copy of my program.
Peter Kinsman
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cowboy007
Thanks for your time and quick response.
I would really like to see ur pgm, probably that can give me a clue of
how can i handle for COBOL.
you can send it to my email address (sai.bha...@gmail.com) if you
are okay.
meanwhile,i shall search for programs which google provided
On Apr 21, 1:34 pm, "Peter Kinsman" <pe...@seguecomputing.co.uk>
wrote:
> Google brings up several programs - usually written in Java - to convert
> Copybooks into XML and other things. Years ago I wrote an RPGII program to
> use the F and I specifications from an RPG program to create a DDS PF
> member. A combination of the two would probably do what you want, although
> looking at an example of a Copybook, elementary items would map to real
> fields, but aggregate items would need to be handled as some kind of alias.
> You are welcome to a copy of my program.
>
> Peter Kinsman
>
> "cowboy007" <Sai.Bhagavat...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:bc0220ad-736e-4324...@q27g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > Hello all,
>
> > this is one more newbie to AS400. I have been working with Mainframes
> > and Z.OS and recently shifted to a shop which uses AS400.
>
> > I am extremely comfortable with Fileaid, and now, since the time i
> > understood the way PFs are created and are viewed through DDS to be
> > in formatted manner, its really getting tough for me. Because, the
> > shop i am using, for smoe reason, dont have DDS defined for all the
> > files.
>
> > So, I am looking at any option/utility where i can provide the COBOL
> > Copybook as input and, a source member would be generated with a DDS
> > written accordingly?
>
> > Did anyone hear/see anything of that sort?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Mike
"cowboy007" <Sai.Bha...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I do not have the code but several years ago, in a former life, I had
my staff write a program to convert COBOL copy books into DDS. We did
it using the AS400 COBOL compiler with the *MAP option.
As you probably know the *MAP option provides a compiler listing of
all variables in the working storage of a program being compiled.
Since the compiler handles the COBOL syntax and code parsing you get a
nice columnar report of all variables and their attributes with very
little work. You just have to convert the *MAP list to a physical
file and then convert the report list to DDS source format.
Mike Sicilian