I was recently working on a pretty long class which mapped a web-service response to a set of 'activity codes' in our Java application. The class ends up mapping some 60+ different codes based on various scenarios, and appends some extra data for some....
Groovy Tabular Data DSL
After using Spock, I became really interested in the tabular input of data into my services, not just into my test. The project I'm working on has a lot of transaction data with various associated properties. So transaction type 1, has fee type A associated...
Generate COBOL Copybook Output From DB2 Using JCL
Several of my last few posts have involved data manipulation, and for the most part I've been using Groovy. However, what I really like about Groovy is writing less code, and there are times when other tools, JCL in this case, can help me write even...
COBOL Data Type File Formatting
Since a lot of existing COBOL jobs take flat files as input, and produce flat files, I've been doing some experimenting with data manipulation in COBOL friendly formats. Much of the formatting is pretty straight forward, if you have a variable defined...
