I posted a question a few weeks ago aabout how to find a file description when you have no source code. That would still be beneficial to me but possibly I can make this easier on myself... This may sound stupid but here goes. How do you create an indexed file??? I know what I want the FD to be - and I want to begin with new data. But if the file doesn't exist I get an error when trying to open it. I don't think there is a create statement?? Any insight would be helpful. I am running RM Cobol 85.