Does anybody know what this compiler error refers too?

[johnnyjj]

Getting a
"cat: cannot open OUT.DAT"

error

 

[QuietDean]

hi, johnnyjj,

personally, i've never seen this one but i'm here with my mate quietdean who operates cobol on a unix platform and apparently it means that your compiler cannot find the out.dat file. Are you trying to merge two files? He say's that this is what the message means in unix when you are doing this.
hope this helps,

jimlee Dean Owen

 

[nontrad]

Can't really help from the scarce info but...

Could you be trying to open an input file that does not exist? Or could you be trying to reopen /append an output file?

Are you on a mainframe using JCL or another platform? That may help trace the problem.

You may also try to check your select - assign statement. Is it spelled correctly?

 

[slade]

Hi John,

I'm not a PC maven but does the file have to be allocated before your pgm is run. Maybe that's it.

Jack

 

[onatear]

That is a unix error. It probably came from the shell you used to run your routine, not the routine itself. It indicated the file "OUT.DAT" doesn't exist. "cat" is a unix utility used to display (among many other things) files.

 

[Guest_imported]

Make sure when your reading in data that you have all record data in one folder
the output data would be for example
select print-line assign to sysout
then make sure you put the name also in FD section