Re: Cobol and Oracle SQL*Loader

From: Christopher M. Day <christopher.day_at_rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 21:39:22 +0000
Message-ID: <3880E90A.377701B@rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>

Andy,

The problem is that a copybook doesn't necessarily describe the data completely to you. Some definitions are programmatic.

Tools I would recommend would be Ab Inito (standard feature), OWB (extra) or DataStage (extra).

Chris.

Andrew Briggs wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a tool(s) that can a COBOL II copybook and produce
> a SQL*Loader control file.
>
> I have successfully loaded EBCDIC files into Oracle using SQL*Loader
> and control files that I have created manually but I now have several
> files with a large number of fields in them and a tool would be useful.
>
> Please excuse me if the above is meaningless as my mainframe/COBOL
> knowledge is very limited.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew Briggs
>
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Received on Sat Jan 15 2000 - 15:39:22 CST