Shifting Bits by Patrick Altman

Brian Egler writes about COBOL support in SQL 2008 and tips his hat towards our 3rd party solution:

Well, in the meantime third party tools may be required to help us out. One such example is a Connection Manager from aminosoftware.com . It’s called Lysine and prevents you having to pre-process the data before it is pumped into an ASCII byte stream. Since SSIS is extensible, you can write custom components like this yourself. But why bother when someone else has been there, done that. Maybe Microsoft will snap it up and include it in SP1? We’ll see.