The OS is AIX, and I have the ability to print to a disk file. And
that seems to be the way that I'll have to get the data out.
I was thinking about tackling this project again for awhile, but I
think I am going to put it on the back burner again.
Thanks!
Kevin
On 9/1/05, Thurman Pedigo
Kevin,
Can you get the data into a file accessible to GT.M or Perl? Do you have access
to the
source code or documentation on the data layout? If you're up for a little
programming
challenge then it might be surprisingly easy to read the data directly out of
the COBOL
data files. At most, you
My recollection of COBOL is that the files are defined in a beginning
section of the program and that things are fairly clearly defined, although
some might have a generic description of the data file (saying for example
that each record is 1100 characters) and then move each record into a
Kevin,
I went through the same process in the late 80's. Only then it was a Wang
Mini circa 1978 converting to FileMan. I had the advantage of having written
the program (in BASIC), though that wasn't so much the advantage. We used a
port interface (fuzzy, but I think telnet capture, or some
I'm not sure about MicroFocus Cobol (which is a PC Cobol, as I recall)
but I recall that on the mainframes (IBM 360/370 range)
Cobol did NOT provide its own database layer.
It is probably something like VSAM or ISAM, or possibly SQL.
A web search yielded:
Kevin;
There are ways of capturing the data. Obviously, if you can generate the
information electronically, that would make the effort easier. There are
probably pointer relationships which need to be preserved to make sense out
of the information. Also if you have access to the data
