Edgardo Burin works for ING Canada as a solution architect in integration projects using webMethods. He works in different projects integrating mainframe transactions, MQ services, and Oracle databases using webMethods. He has more than 10 years of experience managing infrastructure. His areas of expertise are in Oracle databases, integration, and service-oriented architecture.
Integrating mainframe applications into an SOA often carries the burden of
dealing with metadata in the form of Cobol Copybooks. This metadata converted
to an XML Schema format can be useful for a range of applications (from
validation to creation of services). This article explains how to automate
the conversion from Copybooks to XML Schema using regular expression logic.
Cobol Copybooks 101
Mainframe metadata is usually defined using a subset of the Cobol language.
Mainframe developers call these descriptions Copybooks. Cobol data definition
is based on a hierarchical structure composed by two different types of
items: Elementary Items and Group Items.
Elementary Item is the name Cobol assigns to a data item that is not further
subdivided (analogous to variables in othe... (more)
Edgardo Burin works for ING Canada as a solution architect in integration projects using webMethods. He works in different projects integrating mainframe transactions, MQ services, and Oracle databases using webMethods. He has more than 10 years of experience managing infrastructure. His areas of expertise are in Oracle databases, integration, and service-oriented architecture.
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