Metadata discovery
You can use metadata discovery automate the tedious process of manually identifying and determining metadata from Cobol Copybook and JDBC databases.
The Read metadata from Copybook step reads a binary fixed-length copybook definition file and outputs the file and column descriptor information as fields to Pentaho Data Integration rows.
Query metadata from a database
The Query metadata from a database step discovers metadata from six different JDBC metadata types to use with ETL Metadata Injection in PDI.