Fujitsu Data Converter for Windows
- Can I use Data Converter to convert files from other COBOL vendor file formats?
- I want to bring some EBCDIC data files to the PC, can Data Converter help me convert this data to ASCII?
- What file formats can Data Converter work with?
- Can Data Converter help me move COBOL data to other data systems, such as relational data bases or products like Microsoft Excel?
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Can I use Data Converter to convert files from other COBOL vendor file formats?
Answer: Yes - provided that you can get the data into a fixed-length sequential format and that you are not using any vendor-specific data types. Many vendors provide file maintenance utilities that will create sequential files from structured file formats such as indexed and relative files. Once you have the data in a sequential file format, you can load the COBOL record description into the Layout Definition tool, and have Data Converter load the data into the equivalent NetCOBOL (previously called Fujitsu COBOL) file structure.
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I want to bring some EBCDIC data files to the PC, can Data Converter help me convert this data to ASCII?
Answer: Yes - Data Converter provides options for specifying whether the input and output files are in ASCII or EBCDIC. The conversion is sensitive to the record layout, so non-character fields are not converted.
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What file formats can Data Converter work with?
Answer: Data Converter supports text, binary, COBOL Sequential, Relative and Indexed files as well as the comma separated values (CSV) format in which all data is output in character form with commas separating each field and files containing data in XML format.
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Can Data Converter help me move COBOL data to other data systems, such as relational data bases or products like Microsoft Excel?
Answer: By converting files to the comma separated values (CSV) format you can exchange data with a number of data bases and data handling products. The CSV format is widely supported as a means of importing and exporting data from data bases.
