I’m stuck yet again and need some assistance. As usual, it’s my nemesis – Hashes.
Essentially, I’m trying to write to a database, all the items of software on a z/OS mainframe. I have managed to progress to the following hash:
$VAR1 = {
'Product' => {
'Unicenter CA-Deliver Output Management' => {
'vendorUniqueKeyRef' => 'CA',
'swUniqueKey' => 'RMO',
'description' => 'Unicenter CA-Deliver Output Management'
},
'Unicenter CA-JCLCheck Utility' => {
'vendorUniqueKeyRef' => 'CA',
'swUniqueKey' => 'JCLCHECK',
'description' => 'Unicenter CA-JCLCheck Utility'
},
'EREP Environmental Recording Edit Print' => {
'vendorUniqueKeyRef' => 'IBM',
'swUniqueKey' => 'EREP',
'ProductVersion' => {
'version' => '3',
'swUniqueKey' => '5658-260',
'name' => 'EREP Environmental Recording Edit Print',
'versionNumber' => '03'
},
'description' => 'EREP Environmental Recording Edit Print'
},
'SYSQL' => {
'vendorUniqueKeyRef' => 'SPLWDGRP',
'swUniqueKey' => 'SYSQL',
'ProductVersion' => {
'ProductVersionRelease' => {
'releaseNumber' => '01',
'swUniqueKey' => 'SYSQL-21',
'name' => 'SYSQL',
'release' => '1'
},
'version' => '2',
'swUniqueKey' => 'SYSQL-2',
'name' => 'SYSQL',
'versionNumber' => '02'
},
'description' => 'SYSQL'
},
'3270-PC File Transfer Program' => {
'vendorUniqueKeyRef' => 'IBM',
'swUniqueKey' => '3270PCFT',
'description' => '3270-PC File Transfer Program'
},
'Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS' => {
'vendorUniqueKeyRef' => 'IBM',
'swUniqueKey' => 'OMXEZO',
'ProductVersion' => {
'version' => '3',
'swUniqueKey' => '5698-A59',
'name' => 'Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS',
'versionNumber' => '03'
},
'description' => 'Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS'
},
'Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Messaging for z/OS' => {
'vendorUniqueKeyRef' => 'IBM',
'swUniqueKey' => 'OMXEMES',
'description' => 'Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Messaging for z/OS'
},
'DB2 Utilities Suite for z/OS' => {
'vendorUniqueKeyRef' => 'IBM',
'swUniqueKey' => 'DB2UTSU',
'ProductVersion' => {
'DB2 Utilities Suite for z/OS' => {
'swUniqueKey' => '5655-N97',
'version' => '9',
'versionNumber' => '09'
},
'DB2 Utilities Suite' => {
'swUniqueKey' => '5697-E98',
'version' => '7',
'versionNumber' => '07'
}
},
'description' => 'DB2 Utilities Suite for z/OS'
},
'UMB' => {
'vendorUniqueKeyRef' => 'CSC',
'swUniqueKey' => 'CSCUMB',
'description' => 'UMB'
}
}
};
Initially, all was good and I had the following:
my $sw = $xmldoc->{'Catalog'}->{'Products'};
my %sw = %{ $sw->{'Product'} };
foreach my $product (keys %sw) {
print "Now processing $product\n";
my $version;
my $release;
my $description = $sw{$product}{'description'};
my $vendorUniqueKeyRef = $sw{$product}{'vendorUniqueKeyRef'};
my $swUniqueKey = $sw{$product}{'swUniqueKey'};
if ($sw{$product}{'ProductVersion'}) {
$version = $sw{$product}{'ProductVersion'}{'version'};
if ($sw{$product}{'ProductVersion'}{'ProductVersionRelease'}) {
$release =
$sw{$product}{'ProductVersion'}{'ProductVersionRelease'}
{'release'};
}
else {
$release = 0;
}
}
else {
$version = 0;
$release = 0;
}
my $fullVersion = "$version.$release";
print " ***************\n
The product is: $product\n
The description is: $description\n
The vendorUniqueKeyRef is: $vendorUniqueKeyRef\n
The ProductVersion is: $fullVersion\n
The swUniqueKey is: $swUniqueKey\n
***************\n";
}
However, I kept getting an error about using uninitialised variables while using strict. I realised that some software had versions like “.2” instead of “2.2” and then saw that I was not properly handling the fact that some products are installed twice with different versions, something which I had stupidly not catered for.
I tried to fix that, only to find that not all version versions have a release, which I had tried to cater for, but only if they had been installed once…….
I’ve read up a load on getting data out of a HoH as well as an AoH, but I can’t come right with this.
Essentially I’m trying to get a listing of all the software installed out of this hash into the database using DBD::ODBC (which I already have working for the rest of my program) whether it has a version, multiple versions, versions and releases, multiple versions and no releases, multiple vers…… Well you get the idea…….
I’d appreciate any help that anybody could give as weel as any advice on my current style and error checking.
Thanks in advance.
I think you are using
XML::Simple? If so you would be far better off using an XML parser that gives you XPath-like access to your data, such asXML::LibXMLorXML::Twig.As it stands you would be better off maintaining scalar variables to point at each step inside the hash structure. That would avoid multiple keys to access an element as well as using the same hash access repeatedly. You shouldn’t copy to another hash as you do in
my %sw = %{ $sw->{'Product'} }because there is no point in copying all the hash keys and values. I have usedmy $products = $sw->{Product}in the code below, and thenmy $product = $products->{$prodname}andmy $pv = $product->{ProductVersion}.You would also benefit by using hash slices, and the code sould be clearer if you dropped the quotes from around the hash keys (this works only if the keys are alphanumeric). I pull out the first three product parameters in one line using a slice.
Here is a rewrite of the piece of code you showed us. The biggest change is that I have checked to see whether there is a
ProductVersion/versionelement. If so then I combineversionandProductVersionRelease/releasefrom beneathProductVersion. Otherwise I do the same beneath allProductVersion/*elements. The//defined-or is useful to default these values to zero if they are not present.I hope this is closer to what you wanted.
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