Re: variable length records under fujitsu cobol (COBOL.NET)

I know it isn't the answer that you want, but Micro Focus provides an "RDW"
directive to provide (IBM) mainframe RDW emulation. You might want to ASK
Fujitsu if they have a comparable feature.

P.S. I don't understand the reference to "SyncSort". What O/S are you going to
run on - or are you doing your OWN emulation of SyncSort control cards under
..NET?

P.P.S. If you are actually doing the sort on the mainframe, again Micro Focus
has some utilities for Upload/Download of variable length files (including those
with mixed USAGE DISPLAY and COMP-n data). Again, you could ask Fujitsu what
they offer for this.

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"ari" <unikoski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1128003166.767381.165010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks, but this is not practical. I am moving a Mainframe application
> to Cobol.NET. A large number of cobol programs are involved. So I
> can't go for a manual solution. And this file structure will not work
> well with syncsort, which I need for sorting these files.
>


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