Errors within COBOL patient manager program

[danno74]

I have no experience with cobol, let's put that out there first off.

We received a server from a defunct billing company whose client we are not representing. The server has a "Purge Menu" program, that at the main menu has Tax ID/ Provider ID codes, which you can select and get into a different group of patient databases dependent on provider code and date of service.

There is one ID that will not run, and gives me the following errors:

Return Code: Program "PRGMENU" terminated with return code 255. COBOL error code 35
Cobol I/O error 35 on CONTROL-FILE file c:\mbms2\purge\CNTRL.REL
Cobol I/O error at line 102 in MBSAA000 (c:\mbms2\PURGE\RDI1\Programs\MBSAA000.COB)
Cobol traceback at line 97 in MBSXXPP (c:\mbms2\PURGE\RDI1\Programs\MBSXXPPP.COB)

Any ideas? It is running on an old Win98 machine. Each provider code (in this case RDI1) has it's own directory under the "Purge" directory. The RDI1 directory is the only one with a "Programs" folder under it, not sure what that means.

I would contact the original programmer, but they have left town. I appreciate any help!

 

[fredericofonseca]

Error 35 just means that file CNTRL.REL was not found on "c:\mbms2\purge".

See if the file is elsewere, or if there are similar files on other folders that may give you a pointer of what the filename should be.

Not much more I can do..

Regards

Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd

http://www.syssoft-int.com