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    AIX COBOL & VARIABLE LENGTH FILES

    I am having a very hard time trying to create a true variable length record using IBM COBOL on an AIX UNIX. Is this even possible. The record descriptor has the correct record length but the program or UNIX wants to place null characters in the remainder of the record up to the maximum record...
  2. pthboss

    AIX COBOL SORT

    I am trying to sort a variable length file using an internal cobol sort. I am using IBM COBOL running on an AIX platform. I am getting this message: The SORT-RETURN special register was never referenced, but the current content indicated the sort or merge operation in program SRT231 on...
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    Reading character and binary data

    I am trying to read a file into my COBOL program running on AIX that contains character and binary data. When I access the file with "Access is sequential" I can access the binary data but the character data gets hosed. When I access the file as "line sequential" the...
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    COBOL - AIX - File status 35

    We are in the process of coverting our mainframe cobol programs to run under a AIX environment. I am having trouble opening a file. I am getting a file status 35. The Select statement is coded as follows: SELECT CONTROL-FILE-IN ASSIGN TO SYS014 ORGANIZATION IS SEQUENTIAL...

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