I am trying to read a file into my COBOL program running on AIX that contains character and binary data. When I access the file with "Access is sequential" I can access the binary data but the character data gets hosed. When I access the file as "line sequential" the character data is readable but the binary data is garbage. The AIX manuals say not to used "line sequential" access for data that contains non printable characters. I have tried COMP and COMP-5 on the binary data field.