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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 07 May 2011]

Hi,
i create a new project in Visual Cobol R3,

== File,
== New,
== Project,
== Cobol,
== Native,
== Console Application

And create an simple application, to insert, to update, to delete and view
many registries.

My Select is:
select vendedores assign to disk
organization is indexed
access mode is dynamic
file status estado-vendedores
lock mode is manual
record key is chave-vendedores.

My FD is:
fd vendedores
label record is standard
value of file-id "C:\\Programa02\\Vend.Arq".
01 registro-vendedores.
02 chave-vendedores.
03 codigo-vendedores pic 9(3).
02 nome-vendedores pic x(40).
02 filler pic x(30).

In folder "C:\\Programa02" there are only "Vend.Arq", i dont see the "Vend.idx",
how can i create an "Vend.Arq" and "Vend.Idx" files in Visual Cobol ?

Cláudio.
claudiomiguelmuller@hotmail.com
Brazil.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 07 May 2011]

Hi,
i create a new project in Visual Cobol R3,

== File,
== New,
== Project,
== Cobol,
== Native,
== Console Application

And create an simple application, to insert, to update, to delete and view
many registries.

My Select is:
select vendedores assign to disk
organization is indexed
access mode is dynamic
file status estado-vendedores
lock mode is manual
record key is chave-vendedores.

My FD is:
fd vendedores
label record is standard
value of file-id "C:\\Programa02\\Vend.Arq".
01 registro-vendedores.
02 chave-vendedores.
03 codigo-vendedores pic 9(3).
02 nome-vendedores pic x(40).
02 filler pic x(30).

In folder "C:\\Programa02" there are only "Vend.Arq", i dont see the "Vend.idx",
how can i create an "Vend.Arq" and "Vend.Idx" files in Visual Cobol ?

Cláudio.
claudiomiguelmuller@hotmail.com
Brazil.


You may have created an IDX8 format file which contains both data and index within the same file.

Use rebuild /f on the file to see information about format.

If you want to change format you can use either a file handler configuration file or one of the compiler directives that control file formats.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 07 May 2011]

Hi,
i create a new project in Visual Cobol R3,

== File,
== New,
== Project,
== Cobol,
== Native,
== Console Application

And create an simple application, to insert, to update, to delete and view
many registries.

My Select is:
select vendedores assign to disk
organization is indexed
access mode is dynamic
file status estado-vendedores
lock mode is manual
record key is chave-vendedores.

My FD is:
fd vendedores
label record is standard
value of file-id "C:\\Programa02\\Vend.Arq".
01 registro-vendedores.
02 chave-vendedores.
03 codigo-vendedores pic 9(3).
02 nome-vendedores pic x(40).
02 filler pic x(30).

In folder "C:\\Programa02" there are only "Vend.Arq", i dont see the "Vend.idx",
how can i create an "Vend.Arq" and "Vend.Idx" files in Visual Cobol ?

Cláudio.
claudiomiguelmuller@hotmail.com
Brazil.

What compiler directives or cobol directives i need use to create dat and idx file?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 07 May 2011]

Hi,
i create a new project in Visual Cobol R3,

== File,
== New,
== Project,
== Cobol,
== Native,
== Console Application

And create an simple application, to insert, to update, to delete and view
many registries.

My Select is:
select vendedores assign to disk
organization is indexed
access mode is dynamic
file status estado-vendedores
lock mode is manual
record key is chave-vendedores.

My FD is:
fd vendedores
label record is standard
value of file-id "C:\\Programa02\\Vend.Arq".
01 registro-vendedores.
02 chave-vendedores.
03 codigo-vendedores pic 9(3).
02 nome-vendedores pic x(40).
02 filler pic x(30).

In folder "C:\\Programa02" there are only "Vend.Arq", i dont see the "Vend.idx",
how can i create an "Vend.Arq" and "Vend.Idx" files in Visual Cobol ?

Cláudio.
claudiomiguelmuller@hotmail.com
Brazil.

What compiler directives or cobol directives i need use to create dat and idx file?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 07 May 2011]

Hi,
i create a new project in Visual Cobol R3,

== File,
== New,
== Project,
== Cobol,
== Native,
== Console Application

And create an simple application, to insert, to update, to delete and view
many registries.

My Select is:
select vendedores assign to disk
organization is indexed
access mode is dynamic
file status estado-vendedores
lock mode is manual
record key is chave-vendedores.

My FD is:
fd vendedores
label record is standard
value of file-id "C:\\Programa02\\Vend.Arq".
01 registro-vendedores.
02 chave-vendedores.
03 codigo-vendedores pic 9(3).
02 nome-vendedores pic x(40).
02 filler pic x(30).

In folder "C:\\Programa02" there are only "Vend.Arq", i dont see the "Vend.idx",
how can i create an "Vend.Arq" and "Vend.Idx" files in Visual Cobol ?

Cláudio.
claudiomiguelmuller@hotmail.com
Brazil.

In Visual COBOL, the default indexed file format type is IDXFORMAT"8" which allows for > 4 GB files and only uses a single file to store both keys and data.

If you wish to change this to the same default that is in Net Express which is IDXFORMAT"3" which uses a separate .dat and .idx file then you can use the compiler directive IDXFORMAT as follows:

$set idxformat"3"

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