RMCobol indexed file parse questions!!! Urgent help needed

Posted August 27th, 2008 by proplus

I have various RMCobol indexed files that I want to parse and extract data from.
These indexed files include the index in the same file.

When I try to parse using copybooks, the data is returned incorrectly.

It seems that the parser is not correctly identifying the start of the actual data records portion of the file.

In other words, the index portion of the file is not being isolated thus throwing out the starting position of the actual data records.
How can I identify the start of the data reords in these files.

Can someone offer a sample process with this sort of datafile.

Regards,
John
John@proplus.ca

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RE: RMCobol indexed file parse questions

On August 27th, 2008 jterrell said:

Hi John,

You can set the "StartingOffset" in the Source Connection Properties grid to the right of the connection information. Figure out what byte number in the file is the first byte of the first data record, and set the starting offset to that value. Be sure to click the "Apply" button after setting the starting offset.

- Jo