Re: Cobol convert program Job Request

On Feb 22, 6:40 am, jacode...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi everyone.

I have a cobol file (from microfocus) (.mst and .idx about 6 meg
uncompressed). and the header:

$SET REMOVE(LENGTH) NOTRUNC
INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
FILE-CONTROL.

SELECT NOT OPTIONAL IL-BLDG-SKETCH
ASSIGN "B-SKETCH.MST"
ORGANIZATION INDEXED
ACCESS MODE DYNAMIC
LOCK MODE MANUAL
RECORD KEY TABLE-NAME OF SKETCH-RECORD
FILE STATUS SKETCH-STATUS.

FILE SECTION.

FD IL-BLDG-SKETCH.
01 PT-REC.
03 PT-KEY.
05 PT-PROP-NO PIC X(20).
05 PT-SEQ PIC X.
03 PT-GRAPHICS.
05 PT-TABLE OCCURS 200 TIMES.
07 PT-X PIC S9(4) COMP.
07 PT-Y PIC S9(4) COMP.
03 PT-END PIC S9(4) COMP.
03 PT-SCALE PIC 9V9(4) COMP.

I am not a cobol programmer, so I'd like to hire someone to convert
this file to CSV for me. I'd like the source and be able to run it
myself, if possible. I do not own microfocus cobol, so I am wondering
if there is a free alternative (I have both windows and linux boxes
available). I'm hoping tiny/open/free/gnu Cobol will be able to read
microfocus files.

Microfocus Cobol can write several different formats of INDEXED
files. If the file is 'Level II' format then it may be readable as a
sequential file by many systems as it will be fixed records in the
data file. If the file is C2 or other then this may be more difficult
to get another system to read it.

This is a one time data conversion, but we might get a "newer" file
right before the official convert, so I might have to run this more
than once.

Please email me directly at andy at camavision.com (or this newgroup,
I'll try to watch it for a while), if you are interested.

Please include a price quote (I'm thinking in the $100 range).

Thanks,

It seems to me that PT-END may indicate the number of PT-TABLE used
and thus should be in the range 1 - 200. Or perhaps to the next
available 2-201.


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