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This Quickstart assumes that full before and after data is being placed in a Kafka topic for subsequent downstream processing. The Apply Engine simplifies creation of the topic with a single "REPLICATE" Command. Replicate uses the source data structure "DESCRIPTION" for both source and target automatically generating either AVRO Schemas and Payloads or pure JSON payloads. While Precisely highly recommends using Replicate, some applications and "legacy" Kafka Consumers may require a subset or super-set of source schema components. In those cases Precisely recommends creation of a Relational table like SQL statement or DDL containing the "Column Names" corresponding to each of the source data fields or columns required. The Apply Engine will automatically generate either AVRO Schemas and Payloads or pure JSON payloads from the provided DDL.

 

Notes:

1.Apply Engines automatically handle both Code page translation and Data Type transformation as well as provide for the handling of invalid source data when applicable.

2.The source data structures, typically in the form of DDL for Relational source data or COBOL copybooks for IMS or VSAM source data are placed into the Data Type specific directories created previously.

Example 1 - DB2

BEGIN GROUP DB2_SOURCE;

DESCRIPTION DB2SQL ./DB2DDL/EMP.ddl AS EMPLOYEE

          KEY IS EMP_NO;

DESCRIPTION DB2SQL ./DB2DDL/DEPT.ddl AS DEPARTMENT

          KEY IS DEPT_NO;

END GROUP;

 

The content of the Db2 source DDL for the EMPLOYEE table in the EMP.ddl file:

      CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE

          ( EMP_NO                         CHAR(6) NOT NULL

           ,FIRST_NAME                     VARCHAR(12) NOT NULL

           ,MIDINIT                        CHAR(1) NOT NULL

           ,LAST_NAME                      VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL

           ,WORKDEPT                       CHAR(3)

           ,PHONE_NO                       CHAR(4)

           ,HIRE_DATE                      DATE

           ,JOB                            CHAR(8)

           ,ED_LEVEL                       SMALLINT

           ,SEX                            CHAR(1)

           ,BIRTH_DATE                     DATE

           ,SALARY                         DECIMAL(9, 2)

           ,BONUS                          DECIMAL(9, 2)

           ,COMM                           DECIMAL(9, 2)

          );

 

Example 2 - IMS

BEGIN GROUP IMS_DBD;

DESCRIPTION IMSDBD ./IMSDBD/HREMPLDB.dbd AS HREMPLDB;

END GROUP;

 

BEGIN GROUP IMS_SEG;

DESCRIPTION COBOL ./IMSSEG/EMPLOYEE.cob AS EMPLOYEE

                FOR SEGMENT EMPLOYEE

                IN DATABASE HREMPLDB;

DESCRIPTION COBOL ./IMSSEG/ANNULREV.cob AS ANNULREV

                FOR SEGMENT ANNULREV

                IN DATABASE HREMPLDB;

END GROUP;

 

The content of the IMS source COBOL copybook for the EMPLOYEE segment in the EMP.cob file:

       05  EMPLOYEE.                                               00000010

           08  KFLDYK.                                             00000020

               10  EMP-NO           PIC X(6).                      00000030

           10  FIRST-NAME           PIC X(12).                     00000040

           10  MIDINIT              PIC X(1).                      00000050

           10  LAST-NAME            PIC X(15).                     00000060

           10  WORK-DEPT            PIC X(3).                      00000070

           10  PHONE-NO             PIC X(4).                      00000080

           10  HIRE-DATE            PIC 9(8).                      00000090

           10  JOB                  PIC X(8).                      00000120

           10  ED-LEVEL             PIC 9(2).                      00000130

           10  SEX                  PIC X(1).                      00000140

           10  BIRTHDATE            PIC 9(8).                      00000150

           10  SALARY               PIC 9(7)V9(2)  COMP-3.         00000160

           10  BONUS                PIC 9(7)V9(2)  COMP-3.         00000170

           10  COMM                 PIC 9(7)V9(2)  COMP-3.         00000180

           10  FILLER               PIC X(10).                     00000190

 

Example 3 - VSAM

BEGIN GROUP VSAM_REC;

DESCRIPTION COBOL ./COBOL/EMPLOYEE.cob AS EMPLOYEE

DESCRIPTION COBOL ./COBOL/ANNULREV.cob AS REVIEW

 

END GROUP;

 

A VSAM source COBOL copybook for the EMPLOYEE record might look identical to the IMS segment example above.

The DESCRIPTION alias MUST match the VSAMDD or short system name for VSAM files defined in CICS or the RECALIAS runtime parm from the Keyed File compare capture. In our example the VSAM files are EMPLOYEE and REVIEW.