Wanted to thank everyone who wrote back with regards to my inquiry for their help. My colleague and I were able to copy a sample batch program and its data file off the mainframe to a PC. We're now attempting to get the sample program to run. It builds fine with GNU Cobol. However, it gives an error when it tries to access the data file as is. I'm investigating using vbisam with GNU Cobol to attempt to access the data. Would appreciate some opinions. Is it easier to convert flat files to ISAM files and access that way or to just load the information into a relational database and use embedded SQL? Any recommendations? Saw a few options for ODBC/SQL with GNU Cobol including: http://www.kiska.net/opencobol/esql/index.html https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/discussion/contrib/thread/3d4f1141/ https://github.com/opensourcecobol/Open-COBOL-ESQL Are there preferences as to which embedded SQL version/code to use? Also saw some different versions of vbisam. I'm currently using the version at https://sourceforge.net/projects/vbisam/files/vbisam2/, but I started comparing different versions and patches mentioned ( https://sourceforge.net/p/vbisam/discussion/330149/thread/c2662763/ ) and to combine some of the patch sets. Has anyone already done that? Is there are preferred version of vbisam to work with? I rebuilt GNU Cobol using version 3.0-rc1 and made sure curses and vbisam support were enabled. Does anyone have some simple examples of GNU Cobol programs that do ISAM access (using vbisam)? I'd like to test that I've built GNU Cobol with vbisam support properly before I go on to the next step. Any pointers to sample programs that work with the GNU Cobol compiler would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Laura
