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    Exporting Cobol FDA files from MS Access

    The COBOL FDAs (from what I'm told) also require a fixed record length. When I exported the report, any trailing Spaces were trimmed, as were any CR/NL characters. I tried using an RS character (Ascii chr(30)) to hold the record length, but apparently thier system only recognizes the CR/NL...
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    Exporting Cobol FDA files from MS Access

    Appreciate it! And if it was simply data that would work. The samples they sent Me are a fully formatted report with page headers/column headers/lines (like ___________)/Totals and Grand totals. Is there an easy way to export a REPORT into that format?
  3. KDGreen

    Exporting Cobol FDA files from MS Access

    My latest project to to generate files that can be imported to a Mainframe and viewed on the terminal screen. Aside from the samples, I've been told "all they need" is a standard Cobol FBA (or FDA?) file with 133 chr record length. Is there an easy way for MS Access to generate this kind of file?
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