bringing in DBF files to UNIX and reading them in COBOL

[SiouxCityElvis]

Hello.

I have ftp'd some .DBF files to the AIX Unix environment I'm using for my COBOL apps.

I need to read these .DBF files. Is there another job step I should take to transform these .DBF files to comma delimited first, so that I can just read these in from a sequential file?

Thanks.
-David

 

[k5tm]

Ol' Crox has posted some code to read DBF files in this thread:
thread209-527787

It will help if you understand Dutch! It will also help to know that Realia COBOL (which was used for these programs) implements COMP-5 in the Intel (little-endian) manner.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com