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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Enterprise Service Tools
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 3, 2009

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XML to COBOL converter numeric conversion inefficient

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The algorithm / code generated by Rational Developer for z Series to convert incoming XML data to COBOL numeric data types is inefficient.

This is my understanding of the generated inbound (XML to COBOL) XML converter code:

1) Whenever the converter encounters a numeric element, it goes through a process of calculating the number of valid numeric characters in the XML content. This is done using a INSPECT REPLACING code which is not very efficient and so INSPECT CONVERTING construct should be used instead to make it faster. The code is repeated for different lengths but can be done in a single INSPECT statement.
2) Next the converter tries to search for a matching element in the NPSA array. If it finds a match, then it maps the content to a linkage section element and then moves the data to the COBOL data element.
3) If there is no match in the NPSA array then the converter uses the NUMVAL-C function to convert the numeric data.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Developer for System z

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for System z

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 17, 2011

    none

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 10, 2009

    Moving this feature request to reject, please see comments posted on 4/16/09.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 15, 2009

    Per conversations/correspondence, the INSPECT REPLACING will not buy sufficient performance improvement. With agreement from the customer we are closing this RFE and awaiting a new RFE if new analysis from the profiling tool show new data.

    Customer response:
    I will get some more numbers from the profiling tool and open a new RFE if required.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 16, 2009

    This RFE is consistent with our strategy and product roadmap and IBM is continuing to evaluate.

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