Re: COBOL and message IWZ200S with file status 96

In article <42d70950a331579180cdea8da1c06eff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
rolf_cologne <rolf.kollbach@xxxxxx> wrote:
The platform is AIX with the IBM COBOL compiler.

Well, I can't offer much help there; I use an IBM COBOL compiler but it is
on a mainframe. According to
<http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/FRAMESET/IGY3LR10/CCONTENTS?DT=20020920180651>
a file status of '96' is:

-begin quoted text:

For VSAM file: An OPEN statement with the OUTPUT phrase was attempted, or
an OPEN statement with the I-O or EXTEND phrase was attempted for an
optional file, but no DD statement was specified for the file.

For QSAM file: An OPEN statement with the OUTPUT phrase was attempted, or
an OPEN statement with the I-O or EXTEND phrase was attempted for an
optional file, but no DD statement was specified for the file and the
CBLQDA(OFF) run-time option was specified.

--end quoted text

.... but I don't know how much help that is going to be. Has someone been
moving around your files so that they no longer match up with what is in
their SELECTs?

DD

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