Problem reading EBCDIC file using CFF stage

[rishisen]

I am building a parallel job to read EBCDIC files coming from mainframe and do some processing on them. These files have an occurs field depending on a column.
The problem is the "Occurs" field has different datatypes in each row.The datatype of the "Occurs" field is determined by a value in one of the columns in the same file. I have 4 COBOL copybooks for 4 possible datatypes but I am not sure how to use them togather in one CFF stage to read the entire data in the file.
Anyone experienced similar problem? This is really a show stopper in our project.

Thanks in advance!
Rishi

[ray.wurlod]

Read Chapter 10 of the Parallel Job Developer's Guide in which it asserts that OCCURS DEPENDING ON is supported.

To manage the varying data type, you may need to create a custom, hybrid FD with appropriate REDEFINES, rather than trying to shoehorn four different copybooks into one stage.