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kgumraj2
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Hi,
Does Anyone have a sample program or some reference, for DB2 handelling XML programs through Cobol?
Do share
Thanks Much for your help again !!! |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
You might want to clarify this
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| for DB2 handelling XML programs through Cobol |
Start with DB2 as a database engine, XML as a data handling convention, and COBOL as a procedural programming language.
Are you asking about COBOL code that will parse XML data and put the results into DB2 tables? Something else?
If you provide small examples of what data you have and what you want to do with it, we may have suggestions. |
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dr_te_z
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Well, that's the power of DB2 V9. You do not need to 'handle XML'. DB2 does it for you.
When you insert a row with a XML-column, the parsing thing is taken care of. When you want to query the content, just "embedd" your xpath in your "already embedded" SQL.
Yes: it's gonna be as easy as this sounds. |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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| xquery is also available in DB2 V9 |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
What if the requirement will be implemented on a version earlier than 9? |
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dr_te_z
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| dick scherrer wrote: |
| What if the requirement will be implemented on a version earlier than 9? |
Well, then the above is not true. Parsing XML yourself in COBOL: great fun. You can store the XML file as a BLOB or CLOB or whatever, you still got to parse and interpred the content yourself.
When your business requires you to process XML and you're already a DB2 user... I'd like to see your shortlist of PRO's & CON's whether to upgrade to V9 or not.
You could install DB2 V9 LUW for your XML files and leave your relational data on the mainframe. As an incremental approach. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello Kiran,
Is your system running V9 yet?
If not, Enterprise COBOL has XML support (if you are using Enterprise COBOL, your compiles will show something like "PP 5655-G53 IBM ENTERPRISE COBOL FOR Z/OS"). |
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stodolas
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| The XML support in Cobol is very straight forward and easy to work with even. It is a little lacking when creating "standard" XML, but it can parse with no problems that I have found. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello Steve,
Depending on what we hear from Kiran, have you any working code that could be posted or genericized?
Ok, regardless of Kiran's specific requirements - i'm sure there others going down the same path "as we speak". |
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stodolas
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Here is a basic parse. I am reading a record from a file. Each record is a complete XML doc not formatted to be pretty. The document is then parsed looking for only the EMPLOYEE_NUM element and the FIRST_NM element. It can get somewhat cumbersome, but it is pretty easy to use.
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4000-PROCESS-XML-FILE.
PERFORM 4300-READ-INPUT THRU 4300-EXIT.
IF INPUT-EOF
GO TO 4000-EXIT
ELSE
IF XML-CNT = 1
GO TO 4000-EXIT
ELSE
XML PARSE INBOUND-RECORD
PROCESSING PROCEDURE 4010-XML-PARSE THRU
4010-EXIT
ON EXCEPTION PERFORM 8000-XML-ERROR THRU
8000-EXIT
END-XML
END-IF
If TXN-RT-CD-Found
If DTL-ERROR-CD NOT EQUAL '00000'
Perform 4200-Format-Rpt thru 4200-Exit
End-If
End-If
Set TXN-RT-CD-Not-Found to True
Set INBOUND-ID-Not-Found to True
END-IF.
4000-EXIT. EXIT.
4010-XML-PARSE.
DISPLAY 'PARSER READ IN: '
DISPLAY ' XML-CODE = ' XML-CODE
DISPLAY ' XML-EVENT = ' XML-EVENT
DISPLAY ' XML-TEXT = ' XML-TEXT
DISPLAY ' XML-TEXT LEN = ' LENGTH OF XML-TEXT.
Move XML-CODE to HOLD-XML-CODE.
Move XML-EVENT to NEW-XML-EVENT.
Move LENGTH OF XML-TEXT to XML-LEN-IN.
Evaluate NEW-XML-EVENT
When 'START-OF-ELEMENT'
Perform 4020-Process-Start-Tag thru 4020-Exit
When 'CONTENT-CHARACTER'
When 'CONTENT-CHARACTERS'
Move XML-TEXT(1:XML-LEN-IN) to
HOLD-XML-TEXT(CHAR-SUB:XML-LEN-IN)
Add XML-LEN-IN to CHAR-SUB
When 'END-OF-ELEMENT'
If CHAR-SUB > 1
Perform 4030-Process-Tag-Data Thru 4030-Exit
End-if
Perform 4040-Process-End-Tag thru 4040-Exit
When 'Exception'
*** Err 12: A processing instruction target name was 'xml'
*** in lowercase, uppercase, or mixed case.
If XML-CODE = 12
Move 0 to XML-CODE
Else
Display 'XML Exception ' XML-CODE ' Set XML-CODE = 0'
Move 0 to XML-CODE
End-if
End-Evaluate.
4010-EXIT. EXIT.
4020-Process-Start-Tag.
Move XML-TEXT to HOLD-CURRENT-TAG.
Move 1 to CHAR-SUB.
Move Spaces to HOLD-XML-TEXT.
Evaluate HOLD-CURRENT-TAG
WHEN 'EMPLOYEE_NUM'
Set EMP_NO-Found to True
WHEN 'FIRST_NM'
Set INBOUND-ID-Found to True
End-Evaluate.
4020-Exit. Exit.
4030-Process-Tag-Data.
Subtract 1 from CHAR-SUB.
Evaluate HOLD-CURRENT-TAG
WHEN 'EMPLOYEE_NUM'
Move HOLD-XML-TEXT(1:5) TO WS-EMP-NUM
WHEN 'FIRST_NM'
Move HOLD-XML-TEXT(1:18) TO WS-FIRST-NM
End-Evaluate.
4030-Exit. Exit.
4040-Process-End-Tag.
Subtract 1 from CHAR-SUB.
Move Spaces to HOLD-XML-TEXT.
Move Spaces to HOLD-CURRENT-TAG.
4040-Exit. Exit.
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stodolas
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Basic XML generation. I would post the reformatter, but that is too much work to genericize unless someone really wants to see it.
Standard XML calls for underscores in the XML. The reformater replaces the '-' from the COBOL working storage fields '_'. I modified some code from IBM's website to take care of this work.
It takes this:
<MQ-RECORD>
<COBOL-DATA>some data record</COBOL-DATA>
</MQ-RECORD>
And changes it to this:
<MQ_RECORD>
<FIELD name="COBOL_DATA" type="text">some data record</FIELD>
</MQ_RECORD>
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Identification Division.
PROGRAM-ID. XMLGENR.
*Other standard program stuff
Data Division.
Working-storage Section.
copy MQCPYBK.
01 xml-response.
05 return-cd pic s9(9) binary.
05 XML-count PIC 9(9) comp.
05 xmla-count pic 9(9) comp.
05 XMLa PIC X(1000000).
05 XML-OUTPUT PIC X(800000).
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
000-Main.
Move
XML GENERATE XML-OUTPUT FROM MQ-RECORD
COUNT IN xml-count
ON EXCEPTION
DISPLAY 'XML generation error ' xml-code
DISPLAY 'XML count ' xml-count
* GOBACK
NOT ON EXCEPTION
display 'XML generation success. ' xml-count
CALL XML-REFMT-PGM using xml-response
display 'cincom xml convert success. ' xml-count
display xmla(1:xmla-count)
END-XML.
GOBACK.
End program 'XMLGENR'.
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stodolas
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| The parser may have some typos in it. I used EMP_NO-Found when it should be EMP-NO-Found |
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stodolas
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| We just did our v8 upgrade this year... |
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kgumraj2
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Hi,
Thanks All for your Suggestion.
I have written XML-DB2 program that reads data from table and passes similar to above example.
This is fine when I read into Working storage varaible of datatype VARCHAR or any other type.
But I need to declare the variable as CLOB.
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| 01 WS-STRUCTURE USAGE IS SQL TYPE IS CLOB(1K). |
As CLOB can store 1020 KB and working storage varibles can store 327607(~32KB).
Can any one please Me khow how to handle CLOB variables ?
Thanks once again.[/code] |
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stodolas
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| No, working storage can hold variables of huge sizes. I have one declared 16000 KB in a program. |
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William Thompson
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| kgumraj2 wrote: |
| As CLOB can store 1020 KB and working storage varibles can store 327607(~32KB). |
Feel free to visit Appendix B. Compiler limits where you can see for yourself that 01 levels can be bigger than ~32KB: "01-49 data-names | 16,777,215 bytes" |
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dr_te_z
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| I was told by IBM-mers that DB2V9 can handle XML's up to 2Gb. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Steve, Thanks for the code 
Kiran, What version of COBOL is used on your system? |
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