Overview
You can use this Snap Pack for consuming 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 containing multiple 01 records, and payloads containing 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
Release | Snap Pack Version | Date | Type | Updates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
September 2023 | main141 |
| Latest | The Copybook Parser Snap now supports configuring fields from subsequent copybooks using fully qualified names. |
August 2023 | main138 |
| Stable | Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release. |
May 2023 | main132 |
| Latest | Enhanced the COBOL Copybook Parser Snap to improve performance, data validation, and error handling. |
May 2023 | main131 |
| Latest | Addressed a bug in the compatibility mode of the COBOL Copybook Parser Snap that caused a working pipeline to fail. The changes introduced in this upgrade optimize the performance of the Copybook Parser Snap. |
May 2023 | main130 | Stable | Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. | |
February 2023 | develop124 |
| Latest | Improved the performance of the Cobol Copybook Parser Snap when parsing large Cobol copybook files. |
February 2023 | main114 |
| Stable | Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. |
November 2022 | main113 |
| Stable | Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. |
August 2022 | main111 |
| Stable | Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. |
4.29 | main108 |
| Stable | Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. |
4.28 | main100 |
| Stable | Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. |
4.27 | main93 |
| Stable | Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. |
4.26 | main88 | 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: |