Re: COBOL File Specs to DDS or SQL -- MIDRANGE-L

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On 16 Aug 2012 06:30, DrFranken wrote:

Suppose I had some COBOL specifications that defined a file layout.
Could I take those and programatically turn it into either DDS or an
SQL statement to create the file? The Specs are available in a file.

Thing is the record is 12,000 bytes wide and the COBOL specs are
4,500 lines long! Many are redefines and sub-fields which are not
needed. Doing this by hand seems daunting and fraught with peril.
Incoming file needs to be read, processed and then returned to
customer with delimiters between fields.

Help?

There was at one time a "Programmer’s Tool Kit" [PRPQ 5799DAG; given the reference in the Query/400 User Gd is correct] which supported transition from System/36 [which I recall had COBOL]. IIRC there was capability to produce DDS source from internal file\layout input and output specifications; surely from RPG, though possibly from COBOL too. That feature of [presumably included in] the PRPQ had provided some means to deal with redefined storage as I recall from discussions with one of the developers.

Regards, Chuck

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