#34 net.sf.JRecord.Common.RecordException: Invalid sign in field: CUST-ID 0 > 250000

[Anonymous]

Could you please help me out with below issue, I am using JRecord 0.90 and I have manually build the cb2xml package and added as external jar in my project build path configuration. I have passed the attached copybook and epsidic data with | as delimiter. I am new to this process and could not figure out the issue.

*** -------------------------------------------------------
*** Warning there was no "cb2xml.properties" file,
*** using the default Cobol columns of 6 to 72
*** -------------------------------------------------------
*** using start column = 6, end column = 72
Copy Book level count ........ 1
Exception in thread "main" net.sf.JRecord.Common.RecordException: Invalid sign in field: CUST-ID 0 > 250000
at net.sf.JRecord.Types.smallBin.TypePackedDecimal9.asUnscaledLong(TypePackedDecimal9.java:133)
at net.sf.JRecord.Details.fieldValue.FieldValueSmallBin.asBigDecimal(FieldValueSmallBin.java:59)
at net.sf.JRecord.Details.fieldValue.BaseFieldValueLine.asString(BaseFieldValueLine.java:167)

[Bruce Martin]

See the attached zip file, this should read the sample file.

The file has a EBCDIC line separator (Cobol Line Sequential) in it and is also a binary file. This is a very bad idea because the EBCDIC line separator can also occur in binary fields leading to problems. I would look at *how the file was created !!!