Access file size greater than 4GB in COBOL

[sandipan9]

Hello All,

Recently we encountered an issue with COBOL WRITE not able to read/write a file more than 4GB..
You can check a similar forum where this problem was discussed -

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=340590

We use a unix system which executes the binary created by complilation of the cobol file.

So the script which executes the binary was modified to include the path for EXTFH.cfg.
Set as :-
export EXTFH=/output_path/extfh.cfg

This is a configuration file located at the output path.
The content of the configuration file "extfh.cfg" is -
[XFH-DEFAULT]
FILEMAXSIZE=8

This solved our problem

All the best folks!!

Sandipan Das