You can use this Snap Pack to consume one or more COBOL Copybooks and a data stream to produce a JSON formatted message containing the structured payload.
Prerequisites
None.
Supported Versions
Cobol Mainframe - All versions.
Cobol Open Systems - All versions.
Supported Copybook Structures and Payloads
Copybooks contain multiple 01 records, and payloads contain multiple record types.
Payloads with the following characteristics:
Fixed length
CRLF delimited
LF delimited
Continuous stream (no delimiter)
Mainframe variable record length file (4-byte length field with a 2-byte length, which is the length of the payload plus the 4-byte RDW followed by 2 bytes of hex ‘00’s). A variation on the mainframe variable record length file where:
A 4-byte length consisting of a 2-byte length field that is byte-swapped for intel systems. This does not include the length of the 4-byte word. To be specific, it contains the length of the payload following the 4-byte length field.
The last two bytes of the length field are hex ‘00’s.
Big-Endian or Little-Endian payload.
All standard COBOL types including packed and zoned decimal.
COBOL array constructs such as ‘occurs’ and ‘occurs depending on'.
COBOL Redefines.
Payload encoded in EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) or any encoding supported by Java.
Snap Pack History
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Release
Snap Pack Version
Date
Type
Updates
August 2024
main180
Stable
Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
May 2024
main174
Latest
Fixed an issue with the COBOL Copybook Parser Snap that incorrectly parsed packed decimal numbers.
May 2024
main172
Stable
Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
February 2024
main17114 Mar 2024
Latest
Fixed a null pointer error in all the Copybook Snaps.
Fixed an issue with the structure options in the COBOL Copybook ParserSnap.
February 2024
main16814 Feb 2024
Stable
Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
November 2023
main167
05 Feb 2024
Latest
Fixed an issue with the COBOL Copybook Formatter Snap to ensure that output data is written as a single binary output.
November 2023
main165
10 Jan 2024
Latest
The Compatibility field is now set to false by default in the Copybook Parser Snap and it does not display in the UI for new instances of the Snap.
November 2023
main16303 Jan 2024
Latest
Fixed backward compatibility for Snap instances with missing debug configuration.
November 2023
main155
08 Nov 2023
Stable
Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
September 2023
main141
20 Sep 2023
Latest
The Copybook ParserSnap now supports configuring fields from subsequent copybooks using fully qualified names.
August 2023
main13816 Aug 2023
Stable
Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
June 2023
main134
23 Jun 2023
Latest
Fixed an issue with the Cobol Copybook Parser Snap for structures with more than two fields. The Snap now correctly establishes if the fields exist in the structure.
May 2023
main132
06 Jun 2023
Latest
The COBOL Copybook Parser Snap is enhanced to improve performance, data validation, and error handling.
May 2023
main13119 May 2023
Latest
Fixed the compatibility mode of the COBOL Copybook ParserSnap that caused a working pipeline to fail. With this update, the performance of the Copybook Parser Snap is optimized.
May 2023
main130
10 May 2023
Stable
Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
February 2023
develop124
17 Apr 2023
Latest
Improved the performance of the Cobol Copybook Parser Snap when parsing large Cobol copybook files.
August 2022
main111
11 Aug 2022
Stable
Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.29
main108
14 May 2022
Stable
Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.28
main100
12 Feb 2022
Stable
Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.27
main97
06 Jan 2022
Latest
Fixed an issue with the Cobol Copybook Parser Snap where the Snap now correctly closes the input stream.
4.27
main93
13 Nov 2021
Stable
Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.26
main88
14 Aug 2021
Stable
Introduced the Copybook Snap Pack, which enables you to consume one or more COBOL Copybooks and a data stream to produce a JSON formatted message containing the structured payload. This Snap Pack contains the following Snap:
