Problem in converting EBCDIC to ASCII in ODI

Question

Hi All,
I am new to ODI.
I am trying to convert EBCDIC file to ASCII using ODI. Each of my record is of length 140. There is no record separator, but in ODI we need to specify record separator.
So how do i convert this file.
I am using jdbc:snps:dbfile?ENCODING=cp037 in my data server.
IS there any way by which i can tell ODI that the next record is after 140 characters???
Thanks

Answer 1

Yeah, I ended up going the Jython route.
First I created a procedure called "ftpGetEbcdicFile" that takes the following options:
1 Remote Server
2 Remote Login
3 Remote Password
4 Remote Directory
5 Remote Filename
6 Local Directory
7 Local Filename
8 Record Size
This procedure has 2 commands/steps:
ftpGetBinary:
import snpsftp
# Retrieve procedure parameters
remoteServer = '<%=odiRef.getOption("Remote Server")%>'
remoteLogin = '<%=odiRef.getOption("Remote Login")%>'
remotePassword = '<%=odiRef.getOption("Remote Password")%>'
remoteDirectory = '<%=odiRef.getOption("Remote Directory")%>'
remoteFilename = '<%=odiRef.getOption("Remote Filename")%>'
localDirectory = '<%=odiRef.getOption("Local Directory")%>'
localFilename = '<%=odiRef.getOption("Local Filename")%>'
# Build full file paths
remotePath = remoteDirectory + "/" + remoteFilename
localPath = localDirectory + "/" + localFilename
# Execute ftp
ftp = snpsftp.SnpsFTP(remoteServer, remoteLogin, remotePassword)
try:
     ftp.get(remotePath, localPath, 'BINARY')
finally:
     ftp.close()
and insertNewlines:
# Retrieve procedure parameters
localDirectory = '<%=odiRef.getOption("Local Directory")%>'
localFilename = '<%=odiRef.getOption("Local Filename")%>'
recordSize = <%=odiRef.getOption("Record Size")%>
localPath = localDirectory + "/" + localFilename
# There is probably a better way to do this
tmpPath = localDirectory + "/" + localFilename + "~"
inputFile = open(localPath, 'rb')
outputFile = open(tmpPath, 'wb')
while 1:
     line = inputFile.read(recordSize)
     if line:
          outputFile.write("%s%c" % (line, 0x15))
     else:
          break
outputFile.close()
inputFile.close()
Then I created package that calls the procedure with the desired options. It still needs some work, but I think it will get the job done for now.
Any advice or corrections from the ODI gurus out there?