Installation
Installation Overview
Installation Requirements
Installation Account and Permission Requirements
System Requirements
Installing by Using the TIBCO Universal Installer
Installation Environment
Installation Components and Profiles
Installation Modes and Procedures
Installing in GUI Mode
Installing in Console Mode
Installing in Silent Mode
Installing by Using an Update Site
Installing the Plug-in by Using the Public Update Site
Installing the Plug-in by Using a Local Update Site or Directory
Installing the Plug-in by Using BusinessWorks Plug-ins Manager
Adding the Plug-in to TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition
Uninstalling by Using the TIBCO Universal Installer
Uninstalling in GUI Mode
Uninstalling in Console Mode
Uninstalling in Silent Mode
Uninstalling by Using an Update Site
Uninstalling the Plug-in by Using the Public Update Site or Local Update Site
Uninstalling the Plug-in by Using BusinessWorks Plug-ins Manager
Troubleshooting Installation
User's Guide
Introduction
Overview of Data Conversion Palette
Examples Sending and Retrieving Data
Language Features
COBOL Features
Supported Usages
Supported Picture Types
Supported COBOL Clauses and Features
DATE FORMAT Clause
OCCURS … DEPENDING ON Clause
Handling of Computation Items
COMP Versus COMP-5
COMP-6
Handling of Names
Handling of Numeric-Edited and External Floating-Point Items
Numeric Items with Scaling Position P
SYNC Clause and Slack Bytes
Insert Slack Byte Items Menu Item
Alignment Compatibility with Previous Releases
Sign Nibbles in Zoned and Packed Decimal Items
Unsupported Clauses Features Levels and Phrases
PL/I Features
Declarations and Attributes
Data Factoring
Star Names
Data Constructs
Arrays
Unions
The REFER Option
Data Types
COMPLEX Attribute
INITIAL Attribute
Data Alignment
RPG Features
Supported RPG Features
Mapping of RPG Internal Data Types
Unsupported RPG Features
Handling of Items in Binary Form
Dealing with Invalid XML Characters
Handling of Zoned Decimal Items
EBCDIC Character Sets (Such As Cp037)
ASCII Character Sets
Handling of Floating Point Items
Latin Normalization in Character Sets
Data Conversion Palette
Copybook Resource
Settings Page
Copybook Page
Import Button
Generate from an XML Schema
Mapping of XML Schema Types to COBOL
Schema Simple Types
Insert Slack Byte Items Menu Item
Schema Preview Page
Field Configuration Page
Configuration of Data-Description Entries for a REDEFINES group Or Union
Control Values
In-Place Copybook Editing
Generated Schema Files
Parse Copybook Data Activity
General Tab
Description Tab
Input Tab
Output Tab
Fault Tab
Parsing Incomplete Records
Allow Incomplete Records
Allow Incomplete Text Items
Validation of Elementary Items
Connecting Multiple Parse Activities
Parsing of a Large Number of Records
Procedure for Reading in a Loop
Render Copybook Data Activity
General Tab
Description Tab
Input Tab
Output Tab
Fault Tab
Item Initialization During Rendering
Error Codes
Samples
TIBCO Documentation and Support Services
Legal and Third-Party Notices