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  • January 27, 2017
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Help anyone.   

I last programmed in Cobol in the military in 1991.  I just got assigned to a project to pickup from a programmer who is in ICU.

My Client is not very helpful and I need to know how I can view the cobol tables!! My Client is using RM Cobol ver 12 on Linux.  The tables have a .dat extention..  Any Suggestions.  P.s. i can view the cobol code and recompile but I need to be able to view the tables and need a viewer or commands to put them on the screen.

Feel free to email me on Malcolm@Modellogix.com


#COBOL
#linuxcobol
#MicrofocusCOBOLToVisualCOBOLconversion

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Help anyone.   

I last programmed in Cobol in the military in 1991.  I just got assigned to a project to pickup from a programmer who is in ICU.

My Client is not very helpful and I need to know how I can view the cobol tables!! My Client is using RM Cobol ver 12 on Linux.  The tables have a .dat extention..  Any Suggestions.  P.s. i can view the cobol code and recompile but I need to be able to view the tables and need a viewer or commands to put them on the screen.

Feel free to email me on Malcolm@Modellogix.com


#COBOL
#linuxcobol
#MicrofocusCOBOLToVisualCOBOLconversion

I need more information about what you are trying to accomplish. MyClient and tables sounds like you are attempting to access some SQL (Structured Query Language) tables. This would imply that you have Relativity installed. However, then you say that the "tables have a .dat extension", so now I'm wondering if you have some standard plain old index files.

Do you have a Liant product named Relativity installed?  If so, then there will probably be a product called the Relativity Designer installed. Start that and connect to a data source. If there are not any data sources showing in Recent, click the Existing button. (Hopefully you won't need a password.) After that, you can ask to see the tables in the data source. Selecting a table of interest, open it and click on the button with the eyeglasses to see the rows within the table.

If not, and you are dealing with only index files, then it will be complicated to dump the records within the index files, but I must admit that I'm not sure that it will be worth the time to describe it to you. I'm not sure the point in dumping the records in the index files.

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Help anyone.   

I last programmed in Cobol in the military in 1991.  I just got assigned to a project to pickup from a programmer who is in ICU.

My Client is not very helpful and I need to know how I can view the cobol tables!! My Client is using RM Cobol ver 12 on Linux.  The tables have a .dat extention..  Any Suggestions.  P.s. i can view the cobol code and recompile but I need to be able to view the tables and need a viewer or commands to put them on the screen.

Feel free to email me on Malcolm@Modellogix.com


#COBOL
#linuxcobol
#MicrofocusCOBOLToVisualCOBOLconversion

Thanx Michael.

In your first paragraph you refer to SQL - No My Client i am refering to is the company/organisation.

In your second paragraph - I will check for this on Monday when I am in the office again. I will revert back to you once i have established this.

Kind regards

Malcolm Heyns

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Help anyone.   

I last programmed in Cobol in the military in 1991.  I just got assigned to a project to pickup from a programmer who is in ICU.

My Client is not very helpful and I need to know how I can view the cobol tables!! My Client is using RM Cobol ver 12 on Linux.  The tables have a .dat extention..  Any Suggestions.  P.s. i can view the cobol code and recompile but I need to be able to view the tables and need a viewer or commands to put them on the screen.

Feel free to email me on Malcolm@Modellogix.com


#COBOL
#linuxcobol
#MicrofocusCOBOLToVisualCOBOLconversion

OK. Sorry, when I saw the uppercase C in client, I concluded that you were speaking of a piece of software.

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