Subject: RE: XML
From: Allan Peterson (Allan.Peterson@revera.co.nz)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2008 - 21:09:13 EDT
Can you send me a copy of a simple COBOL program just so that the programmer can have a look. Without getting into the whys and wherefores ... Replacing a Cobol program that generates customer facing printout using DJDE's with one that puts out effectively the same in XML to a vsam file. We currently have to poweroffload the DJDE stuff to a reel tape (yes really...) the reel tape gets sent to a print house where the XEROX has a tape drive ...there are no spares for this tape drive. Thus with the vsam file we can transfer/ftp it to any print house , the customer etc etc Noting that there are more than 10 such programs that would need to be converted. There are literally hundreds of print programs that generate "greenbar" reports and hundred thousand pages of A4, these are not in scope at this point for XML and vsam. -----Original Message----- From: owner-vse-l@Lehigh.EDU [mailto:owner-vse-l@Lehigh.EDU] On Behalf Of Wakser, David Sent: Friday, 4 July 2008 10:14 a.m. To: VSE Discussion List Subject: RE: XML Allan: I agree with Kevin; it's no great shakes! I started creating XML from COBOL over 6 years ago. The output file was variable in length. It is easiest if you have a sub-routine that will remove imbedded blanks. Otherwise, you just need to pair up the "tags" to the "data".
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