'Package for working with mainframe COBOL files'
Project description
A Python package for processing mainframe data files using COBOL copybooks.
Install
Install using pip:
pip install cobolio
Usage
If you just want to convert a file from a mainframe
using a copybook layout use the command line tool cob_to_csv
Roadmap
GitHub action to publish package to Pypi
dumps function – reverse processing (dict -> bytes)
Limitations
No support for OCCURS DEPENDING ON clause in copybook.
Acknowledgements
The original code was taken from AWS samples repo called unlock mainframe data files on aws.
This project repackages this functionality as a python package and provide pythonic interfaces for programmatic use.
It also provides a CLI for processing files for end users.
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