Bateleur Holdings Group

Extending the potential of ADASTRIP

Through its partnership with Australian software house CCA, Bateleur Software Solutions has enhanced ADASTRIP's capabilities by developing eSTRIP, an ADASTRIP extender Whereas ADASTRIP is a data extraction utility for ADABAS. eSTRIP enables users to strip data from a file in which the records are dependent on a previous strip or some external data source.

This means that once a "parent" file has been stripped, the "child" files can be stripped, and related records end up in the same output file. eSTRIP has two components:

eSTRIP which handles the input cards and reading of any external data. It then calls ADASTRIP

eSTRIPX, an ADASTRIP user exit. A parameter card requesting this user exit must be present in the ADASTRIP input to allow eSTRIP to work

How does it work?

eSTRIP reads the parameter cards. These are either stored in memory for later use by eSTRIPX or acted upon by reading, sorting and creating the in-memory tables.

Benefits

200 files (an ADASTRIP limitation) can be stripped in a single invocation of eSTRIP, with dependent "child" files being stripped in a subsequent invocation

The values in the sequential file need not be sorted beforehand as this will be done when they are loaded into the memory table.

The ISN (##) can also be used as values to be saved or tested against

Contact Us

Please contact Donald Abbot at donald@bateleur.co.za or 011 691 1600 for more information