Micro Focus COBOL can read "Mainframe" and write ""PC", several ways. Enterprise COBOL can write the data as ASCII (that's just for information, as DASD-shortage rules that out for you).
Find out what would be best, and other options, for the non-Mainframe people to receive. Other things than ASCII are possible. You have a Support contract with Micro Focus. Contact them, give them the details, and they should be able to recommend the best way to do it for your situation. Whatever they suggest will be a trivial COBOL program (the conversion is not due to COBOL code, very likely), unless you are "doing the PC guys a favour" by giving them more of what they want (and in the worst-case, the logic will be trivial and the code little beyond that than MOVEs and probably a CALL). I'd produce audit totals from a pass of the data on the Mainframe, and those should be matched to the converted data on the PC (or Cloud, or server - I'm much less worried about the terminology of those who think that Mainframes are dusty things from the 1980s). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
