Cobol redefine in SQL

From: Stephane Paquette <stephane.paquette_at_standardlife.ca>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:34:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D7EA8.20031126133426@fatcity.com>

Hi all,

We'll do a conversion from IMS to Oracle (817). The conversion team wants to move data on Oracle then processed it.

Off course, in the file format, the cobol redefine command is used on a filler field (20 times). There is also a redefine command in a redefine command.

For the younger ones, it means a zone (50 caracters) that can be defined in many ways depending on a key : 2 fields of 25 char or 5 fields of 10 char or ....

The programmers can always use substring to death to work this out but I was wandering if there was a more elegant and a less error prone solution, maybe using a record type or a function ...

Stephane Paquette
Administrateur de bases de donnees
Database Administrator
Standard Life
www.standardlife.ca
Tel. (514) 499-7999 poste 7470
stephane.paquette_at_standardlife.ca <mailto:stephane.paquette_at_standardlife.ca>

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