Demo Applications

Perhaps the most important use case for Stingray is to write data extract applications. This is shown below in Data Validation Mode. We can also handle COBOL file conversions. This is shown below in Reading COBOL Files.

Additionally, we can use Stingray to provide assurance that our files and our applications both use the same conceptual schema. We need several kinds of assurance.

• How do we confirm the schema of a given file?

• More importantly, how do we confirm that an application can successfully use a file?

The answers to these questions involve a two-phased approach. First, essential unit testing and integration testing must be done. Second, the data itself must be validated.

We’ll look an examples to show how to do basic unit and integration testing. This is followed by several examples to show how to do write data validation applications, and how to provide data validation (or a “dry-run” option) as part of a converntional file-processing application.

• Schema-Based Access Validation
• Data Validation Mode
• Data Profiling
• Data Conversion – ETL with Validation
• Reading COBOL Files