Activity for COBOL copybook to XML converter
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Bruce Martin modified a comment on discussion Open Discussion
I have made changes to fix the issue and pushed them through to github: * https://github.com/bmTas/cb2xml The jar is available at: * https://sourceforge.net/projects/cb2xml/files/ * Download cb2xml.jar_24_jan_2026.zip
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COBOL copybook to XML converter released /1.01.08/cb2xml.jar_24_jan_2026.zip
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I have made changes to fix the issue and pushed them through to github: * https://github.com/bmTas/cb2xml
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Looking at will make changes as needed
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Abinash Mohapatra posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
01 CALC-COMMISSION-FIELDS. 05 EMP-TYPE PIC X. 05 CALC-SALES PIC 9(6)V99, VALUE 0. 05 CALC-COMMISSION PIC 9(5)V99 COMP-3 VALUE 0. While trying to parse the statement "05 CALC-SALES PIC 9(6)V99, VALUE 0." and fetch the PIC Clause 'Comma (,)' is also getting counted for the length of the PIC Clause. This should skip taking comma into account while parsing the statement and fetching the PIC Clause information. Possible solution is to add checking comma in PIC Clause in the inAPictureClause method in...
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Which version of cb2xml are you using ??? and how did you run cb2xml I just ran it with java -jar ../../lib/cb2xml.jar -cobol user.cbl -xml user.cbl.xml pause and it worked with my current version (version 1.01.5_trial) on cb2xml (see attached)
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Okay so now I have some copybook files that work and others that do not, here is an example of one that does work: *************************************************************** 00000100 * COPYBOOK AF002A## * 00000200 * * 00000300 * INPUT REQUEST FOR QRX INSERTS/UPDATES * 00000400 * MODIFICATIONS * 00000500 * ------------- * 00000600 * ID DATE PROGRAMMER CHANGES * 00000700 *-------------------------------------------------------------* 00000800 * P548R5 07/10/03 RPATTERSON - PROJECT 144 RX DIRECTIONS...
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*************************************************************** 00000100 * COPYBOOK AF002A## * 00000200 * * 00000300 * INPUT REQUEST FOR QRX INSERTS/UPDATES * 00000400 * MODIFICATIONS * 00000500 * ------------- * 00000600 * ID DATE PROGRAMMER CHANGES * 00000700 *-------------------------------------------------------------* 00000800 * P548R5 07/10/03 RPATTERSON - PROJECT 144 RX DIRECTIONS * 00000900 * ONE FIELD * 00001000 * P548TW 12/15/03 WATSON - ADD FAX-ENTERPRISE-PROD-ID.* 00001100 VB1205* P548VB2...
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ian olson posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Could it be that it needs an "End of copybook" section for all copybooks, or is it something else?
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Okay so now I have some copybook files that work and others that do not, here is an example of one that does work: *************************************************************** 00000100 * COPYBOOK AF002A## * 00000200 * * 00000300 * INPUT REQUEST FOR QRX INSERTS/UPDATES * 00000400 * MODIFICATIONS * 00000500 * ------------- * 00000600 * ID DATE PROGRAMMER CHANGES * 00000700 *-------------------------------------------------------------* 00000800 * P548R5 07/10/03 RPATTERSON - PROJECT 144 RX DIRECTIONS...
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Hello I am getting the same errors as well. Is there any solution to this? Here is the copybook i am using: [00001] ********* 00010000 [00002] * INPUT REQUEST FOR SERVICE A048/A049 * 00020000 [00003] * * 00030000 [00004] * THE FOLLOWING ARE REQUIRED FIELDS * 00040000 [00005] * 1. GROUP * 00050000 [00006] * 2. SUBGROUP * 00060000 [00007] * 3. MEMBER * 00070000 [00008] * 4. CURRENT LOCATION * 00080000 [00009] RP0603 ADD TABLE OF PHONE, FAX, EMAIL TO RESP * 00081000 [00010] ********* 00090000 [00011]...
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I have uploaded zcb2xml_Version_1.01.5_Trial.zip at https://sourceforge.net/projects/cb2xml/files/cb2xml/1.01.4/ That calculates pointer size. By default it is 4 bytes. There is a new dialect of Mainfram_64_Bit that uses 8 byte pointers
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Ok, I will look at it
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James Alexander posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
In the most current release of cb2xml POINTER fields do not have a storage-length attribute. In a previous release the storage-length was present but set to 0. In both cases this throws off the position attribute calculation for all subsequent fields and the calculation for the total length of the copybook. For 32b COBOL the length of the pointer is 4 and 64b it is 8. We are only using COBOL in CICS so 32b is all that matters to us, for now. You might consider adding a 32/64 flag to handle both ....
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This project is of no use to you, Cobol copybooks are the driver
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illi posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Thanks Bruce for the reply. I am looking to convert XSD to RPG.
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It is not implemented in cb2xml and not likely to be, Are you looking to convert xml/Xsd into RPG or Cobol copybooks into RPG
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Hi, is there a way to convert XSD to Copybook RPG format? Thanks
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Bruce Martin posted a comment on ticket #15
There is a new version https://sourceforge.net/projects/cb2xml/files/cb2xml/1.01.1/ that changes Display-length / position. The change in Group-Display-Length is for all generated Xml files. The Display-Position tag is only displayed for the new (2017) format i.e. something like the following java -jar ../../lib/cb2xml.jar -cobol cbl2xml_Test110.cbl -xml cbl2xml_Test110.cbl.x1.xml -indentXml There will be a cb2xml-format="2017" on the copybook tag. The Display Position is also available in the Java...
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Pether Camitz posted a comment on ticket #15
I don't need a separate element group-display-length, using display-length is OK if it sums correctly. I suspected the position element was too set in stone to be changed. The copybook I worked with when I saw the sum difference has about 500 fields in 8 levels, packed and signed fields to a storage-length > 1200. Having group lengths summed and being able to see start positions also for display is helpful as we are moving to a different receiver architecture.
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Updates for move to github
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The element name "position" is ambiguous, because the storage-position and the display-position can be different. * Answer: While storage-position is a better name, position is very important and changing it now would break existing code. 05 Group-1. 10 Field-1 Pic s9(07)PPP. 10 Field-2 Pic VPPP999. For storage-length there is 2 ways of looking at it In Cobol Group-1 is in effect a Pic X field (x(10) for the above). For Group-Display-length = storage-length Alternatively there is no point for storage-length=display-length....
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Input: 06 GROUP. 08 PACKED-NUMBER PIC 9(10) USAGE IS COMPUTATIONAL-3. 08 FILLER PIC X(5). Output: <?xml version="1.0"?> <copybook dialect="Mainframe" filename="test_01.cbl"> <item display-length="11" position="1" name="GROUP" storage-length="11" level="06"> <item picture="9(10)" name="PACKED-NUMBER" level="08" numeric="true" display-length="10" storage-length="6" usage="computational-3" position="1"> <item picture="X(5)" name="FILLER" level="08" display-length="5" storage-length="5" position="7">...
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Chris Nault posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Bruce, I appreciate the quick reply. I will take a look at WriteItems and see if it's something I can tackle. I am not super Java saavy so it's a bit daunting. Thanks, Chris
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The question should go in JRecord. When using Data2Xml, Is there a way to create attributes on elements in the XML output? No, but probably not hard to do. public static final String ATTRIBUTE_PREFIX = "" is not related to Data2Xml. JRecord/RecordEditor support Xml-Schema (as an alternative to Cobol Copybooks). Changing Data2Xml Probably not very hard to add the option of writing as Attributes (would preffer to double check when I am feeling better though). In class Cobol2GroupXml the WriteItems...
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I don't know if this question belongs here on on the JRecord discussion. When using Data2Xml, Is there a way to create attributes on elements in the XML output? I was looking at the code and I see public static final String ATTRIBUTE_PREFIX = "". Is there a way to add a prefix to the fields in a copybook that will cause them to be added as attributes of an element rather than an element? Thanks, Chris
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Noticed 2 more packages using cb2xml: http://www.compositesw.com/assets/ReadMe_License.pdf http://www.whamtech.com/eiq_product_suite_help/index.htm?page=Mainframe_Data_File_MDF_Module/MDF_Access_and_Query_Help.htm There is also IB< & CA packages
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you need to keep it as bytes and write to a stream private static byte[] xml2data(InputStream dataFileName, String copybookFileName) throws FileNotFoundException, RecordException, IOException, JAXBException, XMLStreamException { ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(0x10000); Cobol2GroupXml.newCb2Xml2Xml(copybookFileName) .setFileOrganization(net.sf.JRecord.Common.Constants.IO_FIXED_LENGTH) .setFonmt"cp037") .xml2Cobol(dataFileName, os); return os.toByteArray(); write the bytes to...
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Mouttou Coumara Vadivel posted a comment on ticket #14
Hi, Thanks for you reply. Currently, I am using the below method for conversion. private static String xml2data(InputStream dataFileName, String copybookFileName) throws FileNotFoundException, RecordException, IOException, JAXBException, XMLStreamException { ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(0x10000); Cobol2GroupXml.newCb2Xml2Xml(copybookFileName) .setFileOrganization(net.sf.JRecord.Common.Constants.BINARY_IO) .xml2Cobol(dataFileName, os); return new String(os.toByteArray()); }...
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Looking at the examples for latest cobol2xml : https://sourceforge.net/projects/coboltoxml/files/ the example: xml2data.bat will convert a Xml file to binary cobol-ebcdic (Fixed length RECFM=FB) which could be used unchanged (i.e. binary transfer) on the mainframe Basically: java -jar ../lib/Xml2Cobol.jar ^ -cobol DTAR020.cbl -font cp037 -fileOrganisation FixedWidth ^ -input in/DTAR020.xml ^ -output out/DTAR020_A.bin
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Hi, Did you check this query? Best Regards S.Mouttou
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Hi Martin, xml to copy book conversion using jrecord. We have a requirement to send a value in computational format at backend. I saw there is a feature called computational shown below <item display-length="8" level="10" name="CEX1000C-XML-BLK-SIZE" numeric="true" picture="S9(08)" position="2543" signed="true" storage-length="4" usage="computational"/> With the above configuration, When i am sending the value as 80 for the above field(CEX1000C-XML-BLK-SIZE), We could see that 'P' at the location...
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CB2XML cobol copybook to XML converter v1.00 released
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I have finnished the changes; see: https://sourceforge.net/projects/coboltoxml/files/CobolToXml/Version_0.81.4/CobolToXml_0.81.4.7z/download...
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It will not take a lot of work but I will not have much time to work on it over the...
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Hi, Tks for your suggestion. I will go thorough the sample attached herewith and...
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I have had some thoughts on converting Cobol-Copybooks <--> JSON copybook: In the...
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Numeric fields first digit should be +(symbol) - not possible at the moment: but...
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Hi, Currently, we are using jrecord version 0.80.8g for xml to copy and vice versa....
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