How ReportMiner Processes Mainframe Reports at Enterprise Scale
Watch Astera ReportMiner extract data from a multi-section Fedwire settlement report, a fixed-width mainframe report with no delimiters and no tags, and load it into Excel and SQL Server automatically.
This demo walks through mainframe report extraction in practice: dense, positional reports produced by COBOL batch jobs on IBM z/OS and AS/400 systems, running to hundreds or thousands of pages, that power daily operations in banking, insurance and government. See how ReportMiner reads each field by its character position, detects every section on its own, validates the results, and sends structured data to your databases, BI tools and regulatory systems, all without changing the COBOL programs that produce the reports.
What this video covers:
- Why fixed-width mainframe reports break delimiter-based and tag-based parsers, and how position-based extraction handles them
- Building an extraction template with Auto-Generate Layout, which detects section boundaries and column positions automatically
- Extracting multi-section reports (participant info as key-value pairs, a seven-column transaction summary, a six-column settlement detail) while keeping parent-child relationships intact
- Previewing the hierarchical output before it goes downstream
- Adding validation rules: totals that must match detail rows, routing numbers checked against the participant list, closing balances that must reconcile
- Writing to Excel for the operations team and SQL Server for the BI platform in a single run
- Scheduling the pipeline on a file-drop trigger in an SFTP folder, with email alerts when validation fails
One configured pipeline handles settlement reports, GL extracts, regulatory filings and reconciliation data, each with its own template. The templates live in a visual editor any team member can maintain, so knowledge of how the reports are structured doesn't sit with one person.
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Astera ReportMiner: https://www.astera.com/products/report-miner
Mainframe Report Extraction: https://get.astera.com/reportminer/processing-mainframe-reports
Report Model documentation: https://documentation.astera.com/report-model
Auto-Generate Layout documentation: https://documentation.astera.com/report-model/auto-generate-layout
Job Scheduler (file-drop trigger) documentation: https://documentation.astera.com/project-management-and-scheduling/job-scheduling/scheduling-jobs-o…
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