Re: Cobol redefine in SQL

I think there are two solutions to this problems:

1. Load the data into varchar and use views with substr to preset the data in orderly manner to the users.
2. Create a table that contain all the available fields. For each redefine populate only the relevant fields, with views for each redefine. You can use the multiple into table format of SQLLDR and load into the same table, each time with different fields.

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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> 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 ...
>
>
>
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