Text Processing

Text processing covers the following integration requirements

• pickup of text files e.g. generated from e.g. host systems,
• data conversion (EBCDIC/ASCII),
• file splitting and grouping,
• data extraction,
• content-parsing (e.g. based on Cobol Copy Book structures) and
• dispatching to subsequent postprocessing
  

as indicated in the following diagram

Infinity Service Bus concepts used to accomplish these requirements are

• file listeners,
• format converters,
• Camel processors for splitting, parsing, grouping and data extraction,
• meta-data driven parsers and
• workflow post-processing.
  

Concrete examples are provided for

• general text processing including splitting and grouping of text files, extracting parameters from text blocks and passing text blocks and parameters to subsequent processing,
• text processing as a replacement for the EXP Electronic Media Storage,
• text processing of host files (EBCDIC), mapping of the contained data to complex data structures based on Cobol Copy Book structures and passing these data structures to further processing.