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Frederico, thank you for the documentation links, very valuable. I am aware of the need to do 2 sorts. I was not sure if the approach I chose is correct. It seems it is a valid one. It works as expected.

nclouston: Ramdisk! A ramdisk is a suitable solution/workaround for the problem with temporary files. I moved them there. My concern with creating not any more usable files on a permanent device is gone. Thank you all for suggestions.

Nic (ncoulston): no, the sequence in files 1 and 2 is not necessarily in the same order.

nclouston: This is an example of what I do: file 1 - input data (CSV): ID tag output line 1123 Description 3 1123 Something else 2 6745 Other Description 3 1123 Yet another desc 1 file 2 - input data (CSV): ID...

Thank you for suggestions! mikrom - these are CSV files. I thought I could somehow bypass database creation and use original files. nclouston - unfortunately, I do not have access to mainframe. It runs on Windows.

Hi, I am new to programming and Cobol in particular. I have two files: 1. file defining tag names and order of tags in the final document 2. file containing tag names and values associated with them These files contain tens of thousands of records identified by ID common for both files. I want...