COBOL Copybook Reader

Operation

Defines the operation executed by the function adapter

Possible values: Execute: Read a text document in COBOL copybook format

Adapters

Main class of the adapter (do not change!)

Possible values: de.softproject.integration.adapter.CopyBookReader: Main class (default)

DescFile

Required

Name of the descriptor file that describes the text document in COBOL Copybook format in its data structure. The descriptor file should be stored in the user folder of the X4 repository (for example, X4DB/1/Project/descr.ad) Multiple descriptor files can be separated by a semicolon.

Possible values:

Path and filename with the suffix .ad or .xml (for example, /project/descr.ad)

Strict

Determines whether the data stream from the preceding process step must be sufficiently long to read the complete structure

Possible values:

• true: Full structure must be read

• false: Data stream can be any length (default)

encoding

Sets the character encoding of the scanned document in Cobol Copybook format.

Possible values:

Any valid Java character set, such as:

• Windows-1252 – Western European (ANSI)

• ISO-8859-1 – Latin-1

• IBM437 – OEM US (DOS)

• UTF-8 – Unicode

Behavior:

• Encoding specified: The adapter uses the specified encoding to interpret the input data, regardless of the encoding information stored in the document.

• No encoding specified: The adapter uses the default encoding of the JVM (Charset.defaultCharset()). This behavior is similar to that of the COBOL Copybook Writer Adapter. In addition, an alert is logged indicating which system encoding is used.