> We are looking at migrating files(less than 5 Mb of data in total) with > variable record lengths from a mainframe system to hive.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10856 + https://github.com/rbheemana/Cobol-to-Hive/ came up on this list a while back. > Are there other alternative or better approaches for this solution. Does that JIRA discuss a potential solution to your problem? Cheers, Gopal