Centerprise Data Integrator | COBOL

Many organizations have large legacy investment in COBOL environments and have vast amounts of data residing in COBOL based systems. To make this data available to other systems, this data must be converted to a more contemporary data format such as flat files, XML, or database tables. Astera brings the unparalleled ease of use and performance of Centerprise to COBOL data conversions. You can now convert COBOL data to any of the supported destinations (flat files, XML, databases, etc.) with just a few clicks. Centerprise’s high performance, parallel processing engine ensures that you can efficiently convert even the largest data sets.

Key Features

• Automatically builds a schema by parsing COBOL record definition
• Visually specify layout when a COBOL copybook is not available
• Support for key COBOL constructs including:
  • REDEFINES
  • OCCURS and OCCURS DEPENDING
  • Conversion for numeric types including COMP, COMP-1, COMP-2, COMP-3, COMP-4, Zoned Decimal and more
• Read files in any encoding including ASCII and EBCDIC
• Powerful data mapping capabilities including direct maps, lookups, expressions, and SQL statement maps
• Instant source and destination preview capability
• Export to flat files, XML or databases with only a few clicks of the mouse
• Use high-speed synchronization capability to perform incremental updates to a database
• Automate data conversion using the scheduler, file drop triggers, and the Centerprise API

Power of Data Mapping

Centerprise features high-caliber data mapping functionality that enables you to build complex data conversion jobs. A simple drag-and-drop interface enables you to do direct mapping. More complex maps can be developed by using lookups, expressions, SQL commands, and other mapping patterns. Source and destination previews instantly show the results of your data mappings. Key data mapping features include:

• Simple drag-and-drop mapping interface
• Single-click preview of individual and aggregate level data
• Full complement of mapping patterns including direct maps, constant values, expressions, lookups, and SQL commands

Centerprise Transformation Engine

The Centerprise Transformation Engine is designed from the ground up to be a multithreaded parallel processing component that takes full advantage of today’s multi-core systems by processing multiple tasks at once. Doubling the number of CPUs or cores on a machine usually doubles the throughput. Parallelism is used extensively throughout the engine including file reads and writes, database writes, and transformation. Centerprise is designed to efficiently process very large data sets across all connectors including databases, XML, flat files, and others.

Data Profiling

Data profiling is built right into the Centerprise transformation engine. You can obtain a detailed profile of your data as part of your transfer process or run just the profiler. The profiler computes a number of record and field level statistics including minimum, maximum, average, sum, count, minimum length, maximum length, unique count and percentage, distinct count and percentage, duplicate count and percentage, etc.

Free Trial with Customer Support

Astera offers free product trial of Centerprise. Additionally, you have access to our acclaimed customer support during the trial period. To start your free trial, send email to sales@astera.com or call 1-888-77-ASTERA.

Click the image below to see how data can be extracted from a Cobol data file with or without a copybook.