Cb2xml version 0.95.7

This version of cb2xml contains a minor fix for versions 0.95/0.95.1

Uses of cb2xml

• Convert a Cobol Copybook to an equivalent Xml file description
• Convert a Cobol Data file to Xml file (xml2dat program).
• Convert a Xml file to a Cobol Data (dat2xml program).

The Cobol Copybook to Xml is used in several other projects + several commercial packages to analyse Cobol-Copybooks.

The Cobol-to-Data and Data-to-Copybook programs are fairly limited, they can only handle text files with character / edited-numeric copybooks, no binary data etc.

Downloads

• cb2xml.jar Version 0.95.7.zip - contains only the cb2ml.jar. For those who use cb2xml in open source / commercial packages (JRecord etc)
• cb2xml_Version_0.95.7.7z - Full cb2xml package includes source and examples

Changes (0.95.7)

• cb2xml now out a justufued tag.
• changes to the value tag.

Changes (0.95.6)

• Fix for 88 levels on comp/comp-3 fields
• Added toTextCopybook.py example program. This will write a "Text" version of a copybook + code to move fields from the "normal" copybook to the "Text" copybook.

Changes (0.95.5)

• Fix for position after redefines.
• Added ObscureCobol example program. It will Obfuscate a Cobol copybook.

Changes (0.95.4)

• Added support for the use of Reader (instead of stream) in the library
• Added -font and -indentXml options to the cb2xml batch program
• Changes to examples for running on linux

Changes (0.95.3)

• Fix for usage specified at the Group Level
• Fix for dropping quotes in value tag
• Added support continuation of value across multiple lines
• New JAXB jar for accessing cb2xml - Xml.
• Added examples in Ruby, JRuby, Jython and Groovey. Updated python example.
• Added 2 new Xml tags: editted-numeric and inherited-usage.
• Updated documentation.

Changes (0.95.2)

• Fix for USE_SUPPLIED_COLUMNS option (patch's 2 - Patch 2)

Changes (0.95.1)

• Created a new class Cb2Xml2 which is like the Cb2Xml class except it does not trap errors !!!
• Minor improvements in the error messages from the Cobol Parser.
• Created DTD and Xsd schemas for the Xml created by cb2xml. These can be used to generate classes for c#, java etc.
• Created java - Jaxb example programs for processing cb2xml Xml using java and jaxb.
• Created python program to print cb2xml Xml contents .

Changes (0.95)

• improved support for P picture character, new assumed digits tag + Scale can be negative (due to P picture option).
• Introduced constant class for the attributes used by Cb2xml. This allows other projects to integrate better with cb2xml
• Most methods accept stream as well File (Feature request 1)
• Support for Hex literals (patch 1)
• Support for sync keyword
• Fixed issue with fields starting with numbers
• Fixed issue with comments at start of copybook in dat2xml and xml2dat
• Fixed issue with "anonymous" REDEFINES (problem 12)
• Fixed issue with sign separate (problem 6)
• Option to pass start/end columns to the CobolPreprocessor (instead of using the cb2xml.properties file).
• Added some basic Automated Tests, this will allow regular releases in the future.
• dat2xml - trim numbers
• dat2xml - Fixed issue with occurs (problem 4 and 10)
• xml2dat - Changed to set field to spaces (when tag is absent in the Xml and no initialize is set). (problem 11).
• xml2dat - fix for when incoming data is not the expected cobol length
• xml2dat - changed to handle multiple records

Future Changes

• I am hoping to bring support for other Cobol Dialects to cb2xml.