EBCDIC files received don't have Record Descriptor Word (RDW) but the file have variable length record

[swami2018]

I am trying to read a header record file and it have variable length fields. But the file don't have a Record Descriptor Word (RDW). On reading the file, i could see first 4 characters getting truncated as i am using the option 'option("is_record_sequence", "true")'. Is there anyway to avoid this truncation.

[yruslan]

Currently the only way to load a variable length record file is by relying on RDW header. Otherwise Cobrix won't know sizes of each record.

Could you elaborate on your use case a little bit more. In particular,

• What is your copybook?
• What acts as a record delimiter in your file?
• Where in the file a record length is defined?
• Could we take a look at a sample of such file?

[swami2018]

We can close this issue. The file is fixed length file but have array elements in it. Initial assumption was the array can upto the 0 to maximum array size defined but in MF all the array elements have to be defined.