Problem:

The Animator is considered to be a COBOL development system utilities.  The solution

to this problem is to set COBDATA beginning with a colon.

Resolution:

The compiler and animator themselves are COBOL programs, and they need to

open their own files just as any COBOL program would need to open files, but

setting COBDATA interferes with this.   The documentation, in Appendix A of the

User's Guide, indicates:

        Setting COBDATA affects the compiler and other utilities.  During

        compilation, for example, program source is regarded as a data file by the

        compiler.  If you intend to use any COBOL development system utilities, we

        recommend that the COBDATA value starts with a colon (:).