I need to do EBCDIC to ASCII conversion in SSIS. The incoming data has packed decimal fields in it. Has anyone been able to convert packed EBCDIC decimal fields to ACSCII using SSIS?
View 7 RepliesI tried to setup a flat file data source that has code page 37 (EBCDIC)
Then I have a flat file destionation that is ASCII.
And inbetween I have tried several different data flow conversion tasks liked Data Conversion, and Derived Column. But I keep getting errors about different code pages.
I also tried to load the EBCDIC data into a SQL Server DB, and it complains about different code page.
Has anyone been able to do this with SSIS out of the box, without any extra components ?
Clarence
Hello,
I'm trying to load en EBCDIC file with packed decimal in comp 3 into a SQL table.
I have been searching information in this forum in several threads and have downloaded a DLL from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0e4bba52-cc52-4d89-8590-cda297ff7fbd&displaylang=en
and so far I've been able to get the "UnpackDecimal Data Flow Transformation" to work ... sort of.
The problem is that in the destination table the decimals appear allways as NULL.
The destination decimal column type in the table is set as VARCHAR (I've tryed to set Integer with no success).
Any help on this will be apreciated. If you need more information please ask.
Thanks.
Hi,
I am having a file in which amount fields are given in a Packed Decimal format. Can anyone suggest me how I can read this data element from the file and convert it into SQL decimal datatype.
File is a fixed length. All the amount fields are given in Packed Decimal Format and rest of the fields are given in text format.
How can i identify and convert only those packed decimals using SQL/.Net.
Example : a row in a file that has some packed decimals
158203508540188236252EUR20BZK0030 Å“&
20060715 0001010100010101
Please help!
Thanks
Mirudhu
What do I need to do to import Ebcdic file with comp3 packed data fields from mf into SQL Server? Is this possible? Do I need to go into advanced properties and change the data type? Or do I need to use data conversion task for the packed fields. Any advice or if somebody could point me to a sample script would be greatly appreciated.
View 21 Replies View RelatedI am working on a project that will be mimicking an existing interface that we have with one our our clients. That interface today sends EBCDIC packed fields. We do not want to introduce changes to the external clients interface file when we rebuild it in SQL 2005 Integration Services and I need to find out how I can take ASCII data and convert it to the host (mainframe) representation, which is what we currently provide to our external client using Integration Services.
Has anyone had to do this? If so, can I accomplish it natively with SSIS, or do I need to look to a third party vendor for a component?
Thanks,
John
john.minker@choosebroadspire.com
I have an stored procedure/DTS package that creates an output file that I FTP to a mainframe.
The vendor that is receiving the file expects negative amounts to be in a packed decimal format.
IE. Negative 95.46 = 0000954O
I've done a bit of searching to find a function for this, but I must be using the wrong words.
Any suggestions?
I have been given some data from a Mainframe (AS400?) which has some fields coded in Packed Decimal. I have been able to load the data into a SQL2005 database table, but I now need to convert the Packed Decimal data in the binary(6) field to the appropriate integer (or float) value.
The field contains values such as the following:-
0x20202020200C
0x202020022025
0x20202020DFFA
I don't know how to interpret these. Has anyone got a function that can do this for me?
I've read several articles online that explain how packed decimal works, but none tell me how to interpret the last of my three examples. Can you help?
Thanks!
i have this flat text file that has a number of packed decimal
field type. How do I load that text file into a sql table.
thanks
I'm getting some data from a flat file with a SSIS Package, it comes a integer but I would like to converted to a decimal with a 3 scale.
Example:
Flat File: 2070015000950011800
In the data conversion I had it with a 3 scale, but what I got was this:20700.00015000.0009500.00011800.000But what I want is something like this:20.70015.0009.50011.800
I dont know if you guys get the idea. But I will apreciate if anyone can help me.
Thanks,
Erick
Hi All,
Here is a description of the issue I'm facing about decimal datatype conversion from DB2 to SSIS throught Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2.
I first discovered it when I tried to use a LookUp trans. and selected a decimal typed field. I was unable to validate it and clicking the OK button threw the error copied below:
TITLE: Microsoft Visual Studio
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Error at Data Flow Task [DTS.Pipeline]: The "output column "MFIXFRA" (317)" has a value set for length, precision, scale, or code page that is a value other than zero, but the data type requires the value to be zero.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Exception from HRESULT: 0xC0204019 (Microsoft.SqlServer.DTSPipelineWrap)
------------------------------
BUTTONS:
OK
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Some workarounds on this issue led me to two other strange behaviours:
- If I create a dataflow task to perform a raw copy of a DB2 table to a brand new table in SQLServer destination (by clicking "new" instead of choosing an existing destination table), generated "create table" script for decimal fields is quite different from source table. For example, a source field declared Dec(15,2) is translated as Dec(29,5), and so on.
- Quite same behaviour if I try to derive a column using as derived column trans. If the source column is a decimal, it's scale and precision are interpreted ramdomly.
Any idea welcome
André
Hi,
I'm working on a database conversion from Sybase to SQL Server 2005 and have hit a wall with a character conversion problem when reading non-ASCII characters (encrypted password string) via JDBC.
My application runs on Solaris and accesses a SQL Server 2005 database via the Microsoft JDBC driver. The server was unfortunately specified as having a SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation at installation time, and the database being accessed has taken this default. After creation the data was migrated across via DTS.
The invalid character is a dagger '†'. When read over JDBC it is converted to a question mark '?'.
In my original environment a Sybase database was accessed via JDBC driver from Solaris and the correct value was returned. The Sybase database used Latin1_General_BIN as it's collation. By way of experimentation I have modified the default collation sequence within the SQL Server 2005 database, and created a new table to hold the password. I am then able to correctly return strings containing this character from within SQL Server Management Studio, but the same problem still exists when accessing it via JDBC.
I am not sure where to focus my investigation and would be grateful for any useful pointers/advice. To me it looks like it's a JDBC driver issue as with the change in collation it works from a non-JDBC client.
Many thanks
Alistair
hi
we get ASCII data inserted into a SQL Server database by ODBC connection from an old UNIX system.
Example: INSERT INTO test.db VALUES ('123abc', '456ПРО')
All characters > 128 are converted to "?" automatically.
We tried to setup the database to the appropriate codepage, but we allways get "?" inserted.
Hi,
I'm working on a database conversion from Sybase to SQL Server 2005 and have hit a wall with a character conversion problem when reading non-ASCII characters (encrypted password) via JDBC.
My application runs on Solaris and accesses a SQL Server 2005 database via the Microsoft JDBC driver. The server was unfortunately specified as having a SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation at installation time, and the database being accessed has taken this default. After creation the data was migrated across via DTS.
The invalid character is a dagger '€ '. When read over JDBC it is converted to a question mark '?'.
In my original environment a Sybase database was accessed via JDBC driver from Solaris and the correct value was returned. The Sybase database used Latin1_General_BIN as it's collation. By way of experimentation I have modified the default collation sequence within the SQL Server 2005 database, and created a new table to hold the password. I am then able to correctly return strings containing this character from within SQL Server Management Studio, but the same problem still exists when accessing it via JDBC.
I am not sure where to focus my investigation and would be grateful for any useful pointers/advice. To me it looks like it's a JDBC driver issue as with the change in collation it works from a non-JDBC client.
Many thanks
Alistair
Hi guys, how do i convert a decimal to numeric data type?
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I am using below codeÂ
declare @hour decimal(18,4)='249.2644444444'
select  RIGHT('00' + CONVERT(varchar(2),FLOOR(@hour)),2)
+':'
+ RIGHT('00' + CONVERT(varchar(2),FLOOR(((@hour-FLOOR(@hour))*60))),2)
+':'
+ RIGHT('00' + CONVERT(varchar(2),FLOOR(((@hour-FLOOR(@hour))*60)-FLOOR(((@hour-FLOOR(@hour))*60)))*60),2)
For example 1 it works fine but example 2 it throws arithmetic error. Looking for right code which accepts any value and converts to time.
Example 1 : 12.0763888889 as 12:04:00.
Example 2: 249.2644444444Â
error : Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type varchar.
I'm very new to SSIS so please be patient and very detailed. Thank you in advance!
I have a SQL Table (tblImporData) with 2 columns: "Data" (varchar(40)) and "AccountNumber" (varchar(7)). I need to take the information in the "Data" column and parse it out into 3 different fields into a new table. I created the new table (tblExportData) with the following fields and data types: AcctNumber (varchar(7)), SiteName(nvarchar(10)), Balance (numeric(8,2)), and Active (nvarchar(1)).
Example of Data Field that I'm breaking up: 01Binford 001999Y
I've created a SSIS Package and in the dataflow I have an OLE DB Source going into a Derived Column. The derived column has the following information to split the data.
Derived Name Derived Column Expression Data Type Ln
AcctNumber Replace 'AcctNumber' AcctNumber String[DT_STR] 7
SiteName <add as new column> SUBSTRING(Data,3,10) Unicode string 10
Balance <add as new column> SUBSTRING(Data,13,6) Unicode String 6
Active <add as new column> SUBSTRING(Data,19,1) Unicode String 1
So it should split my example into the following:
AcctNumber SiteName Balance Active
12345 Binford 001999 Y
Everything works fine if the table I'm dumping the information to in SQL has varchar data types for all columns. But I need to convert my balance field from 001999 to 19.99. I tried putting a data conversion transform in that has the input column = Balance, Output Alias = Balance, Data Type = numeric [DT_NUMERIC], Precision = 8, and Scale = 2. I then changed the "Balance" data type to numeric(8,2) for the SQL table I'm dumping to, and added an OLE DB Destination to that table and mapped the columns.
When I try to run the package I'm getting an error at the Data Conversion that says the following:
[Data Conversion [698]] Error: Data conversion failed while converting column "Balance" (162) to column "Balance" (724). The conversion returned status value 2 and status text "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.".
[Data Conversion [698]] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR. The "output column "Balance" (724)" failed because error code 0xC020907F occurred, and the error row disposition on "output column "Balance" (724)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PROCESSINPUTFAILED. The ProcessInput method on component "Data Conversion" (698) failed with error code 0xC0209029. The identified component returned an error from the ProcessInput method. The error is specific to the component, but the error is fatal and will cause the Data Flow task to stop running. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADFAILED. Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0209029. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread has exited.
So, what am I doing wrong? Is there a different way I should be doing this? As always, your help is appreciated more than you'll ever know!
Hi, i've question about how to import an ascii-file in a sql 2005 table.
I want to import this file also with an unique key. There i first have to get the last key form the table and then raise this key. Next step is to use this key during the import.
How do i have to do this in ssis?
Thanks in advance
Olaf
I’m getting ASCII characters in one column of my table. So I want to replace same column value in NON ASCII characters.
Note – values in column must be same
Hello,
I am wondering what conversion rules apply, when a string, which contains a number, is saved to a SQL Server 2005 into a column of type decimal.
This is the code I€™m using (C++):
CString cValue = "0.75"
_variant_t vtFieldValue;
vtFieldValue = _variant_t(cValue)
pRecordSet->Fields->Item["MyColumn"]->Value = vtFieldValue;
"pRecordSet" is an ADO recordset. The database column "MyColumn" is of type "decimal(19,10)".
The most important question for me is, if the regional settings of the database server or the regional settings of the client PC are considered during the conversion from the string to the decimal value. For example in standard French regional settings the "." would not be recognized as decimal separator.
I am also wondering if the language of the database instance, in which this data is saved, is considered during this conversion or any other settings of this database instance.
So my general question is: Does anybody know exactly what rules apply during the above mentioned conversion?
Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Volker
OK gang here I am again. I've gotten the Packed decimals and standard 4-byte unsigned integers to work. NOW I'm stuck on 2-byte integers.
1. My file connection defines a 2 byte column of type DT_BYTES (2 bytes in and 2 bytes out)
2. My Data Conversion task is set to convert the 2 byte ByteStream to a 4 byte unsigned integer (if I try to convert to a 2 byte unsigned integer SSIS gives me a datatype conversion (not allowed) error at design-time
3. Data Conversion task throws error at run-time stating "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data."
4. How could I lose data going from 2 bytes TO 4 bytes ?
5. HOW do I get this value into my SQL Server int column ?
6. The HEX representation of this data looks exactly as the 4 byte column that works looks (0x00 0x01, 0x00 0x02, etc) only 2 bytes instead of 4
HELP ANYONE. I'm at my wits end with this. I've read in this newsgroup that "Microsoft won't be building data conversion utilities for every single data source know to man" (almost like we're asking for a converter for "Johns Personal DBMS"). Mainframe, COBOL, and DB2 are entrenched in many large industries with legacy systems some of us want to interface with (to make it easier for our users to get at that legacy data). Hard to do though when MS won't take the time to bridge the communications with MAJOR systems like Oracle, DB2, and COBOL. Bridging those 3 languages alone would take care of MOST of legacy interactions. This seems a bit shortsighted and unsupportive to those of us forced to deal with ancient systems.
PLEASE help me someone get past this last issue with 2 byte unsigned binary integers
Thanks for letting me rant.
Hi
I am new to this forum and SSIS also.
I searched but could not find any answer here so I am posting my question.
We get some cobol text file that has Zoned Decimal also.
We want to use SSIS to convert the file in to SQL Server Database but we want to avoid using 3rd party s/w..
In DTS it was not possible..
Is it possible to convert Zoned Decimal to Decimal in SQL Server.
Thanks in advance.
PraRav
Hi,
I have a derived column transformation which adds a new column of type Decimal with scale 2.
The expression is (6800 / 464)
Runs fine but it returns
14.65
While if I run any of the following queries in query analyzer SELECT 6800 /
464OR
SELECT CONVERT(DECIMAL(10,2), 6800 / 464)
They give me 14.66.
My question is, why both the tool of same product differs in the way they work ? and How could I have SSIS to work like TSQL ? I tried typecasting in derived column expression and ROUND function too. But still, the output is same.
Any help in this will sincerely be appreciated.
Thanks
I have data arriving in fixed-width EBCDIC format. Each file contains one or more groups of records. Before and after each group there is a header/footer, which is not in the same layout as the records that it describes. Header, record and footer each have a different layout to the other but are consistent within themselves.
Thankfully the one thing header, footer and record layout have in common is their length, so at the moment, using the appropriate code page in the Flat File Connection Manager, I'm able to read all the columns as strings. The headers and footers just come through, albeit a bit weird looking, and I can filter them out with a conditional splt.
However, the header contains information that needs to be appended to each record in the group. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to achieve this? I'm trying to avoid developing a custom data source for this task but, if there's no other way, has anyone done it and do they have any tips?
Hi All,
I have a file with several columns in Comp-3.
I have downloaded the UnPack Decimal component and, as it needs byte stream (dt_bytes) as input, so I set up an appropriate Flat File Source columns.
But I get this error:
[Flat File Source [2201]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "DTCDC" returned status value 2 and status text "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.".
[Flat File Source [2201]] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR. The "output column "DTCDC" (2250)" failed because error code 0xC0209084 occurred, and the error row disposition on "output column "DTCDC" (2250)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
DTCDC is first of the columns packed. These are mostly date columns packed into 5 bytes - should be unpacked to normal SQL date.
I've tried different locale , as suggested in other threads, but it didn't help.
Can anybody help me with this issue how can I do it in (VB.NET script ,importing as String??).
Thanks in advance
Michal
Hi, how are you?
I generated a Data Flow Task where a OLE DB Source connects to a SQL Server and gets data from a table. The next step, writes a txt file with the information (Flat File destination).
All data is imported to txt fiel if this one is configured as Code Page: 1252 (ANSI - Latin I) in the connection manager for the flat file. But if I change Code Page: 500 (IBM EBCDIC - International) which is the one I need beacuse I have to imported in a mainframe, it doesn't work.
This is the error that I receive:
Code Snippet
TITLE: Package Validation Error
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Package Validation Error
------------------------------
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Error at Data Flow Task [Flat File Destination [31]]: The code page on input column "STATUS_CD" (1293) is 1252 and is required to be 500.
Error at Data Flow Task [Flat File Destination [31]]: The code page on input column "SRC_NUM" (1294) is 1252 and is required to be 500.
Error at Data Flow Task [DTS.Pipeline]: "component "Flat File Destination" (31)" failed validation and returned validation status "VS_ISBROKEN".
Error at Data Flow Task [DTS.Pipeline]: One or more component failed validation.
Error at Data Flow Task: There were errors during task validation.
(Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.VsIntegration)
Does any one knows how can I convert from ANSI to EBCDIC or what I have to configure so as to not receive that error messsage? Thanks for help and time.
Beli
I have a CSV Flat File Source with a Decimal column - but DataPrecision property is grayed out - why?
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I was trying to run a test to write a ebcdic file out with a comp - 3 number (testing this for other people) and have run into a problem writing the string out to the flat file destination. I have the following script component:
Code Block
' Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services user script component
' This is your new script component in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
' ScriptMain is the entrypoint class for script components
Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Math
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper
Public Class ScriptMain
Inherits UserComponent
Public Overrides Sub CreateNewOutputRows()
'
' Add rows by calling AddRow method on member variable called "Buffer"
' E.g., MyOutputBuffer.AddRow() if your output was named "My Output"
'
Output0Buffer.AddRow()
Dim myByteArray() As Byte = {&H12, &H34, &H56, &H7F}
Output0Buffer.myByteStream = myByteArray
Output0Buffer.myString = "ABCD"
Output0Buffer.myString2 = "B123"
myByteArray = Nothing
End Sub
End Class
I have added myByteStream as a DT_BYTES length 4, myString as (DT_STR, 4, 37) and myString2 as (DT_STR, 4, 37) to the output 0 buffer.
I then add a flat file destination with code set 37 (ebcdic us / canda) with the corresponding columns using fixed width.
When i place a dataviewer on the line between the two the output looks as I expect ("0x12 0x34 0x56 0x7F", "ABCD", "B123"). However, when it gets to the flat file destination it errors out with the following:
Code Block
[Flat File Destination [54]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "myByteStream" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".
If i increase the size of the byte stream (say, to 50) the error goes away but I am left with the string "1234567F" instead of the appropriate hex values. Any clues on how to go about this? I obviously don't care if it gets transferred to "readable" text as this is supposed to be a binary stream, thus the no match in target page seems superfulous but is probably what is causing the problems.
NOTE: this is relating to the following thread (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2300539&SiteID=1) in that I am trying to determine why these people are not seeing the "UseBinaryFormat" when importing an EBCDIC file (i see this fine when i use an ftp'd file, but it auto converts to ascii) with comp-3 values. I also see the "UseBinaryFormat" when I am importing a regular EBCDIC file which I create that has no import errors with zoned decimals.
I am working with a legacy SQL server database from SQL Server 2000. I noticed that in some places that they use decimal data types, that I would normally think they should be using integer data types. Why is this does anyone know?
Example: AutomobileTypeId (PK, decimal(10,0), not null)
I am creating a table on SQL Server. One of the columns in this new table contains whole integer as wells as decimal values (i.e. 4500 0.9876). I currently have this column defined as Decimal(12,4). This adds 4 digits after the decimal point to the whole integers. Is there a data type that will have the decimal point only for decimal values and no decimal point for the whole integers?
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My database stores the decimals in Spanish format; "," (comma) as decimal separator.
I need to convert decimal nvarchar values (with comma as decimal separator) as a decimal or int.
Any Case using CAST or CONVERT, For Decimal or Int gives me the following error:
Error converting data type varchar to numeric
Any knows how to resolve.
Or any knows any parameter or similar, to indicate to the Cast or Convert, that the decimal separator is a comma instead a dot.
Hello!
I would like to cast (convert) data type decimal(24,4) to
decimal(21,4). I could not do this using standard casting function
CAST(@variable as decimal(21,4)) or CONVERT(decimal(21,4),@variable)
because of the following error: "Arithmetic overflow error converting
numeric to data type numeric." Is that because of possible loss of the
value?
Thanks for giving me any advice,
Ziga
I have date in Flat file and it is in the string format,but now i want to convert it in to normal date format.I have tried doing this by SSIS but it is not working.
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