Re: MF Cobol and Cisam

> I am investigating the opposite, IOW can Informix read files created by MF > Cobol. The first time I looked at this is app. 2 years ago. > Then the problem was the way MF Cocol stored negative values. (ie. -311 was > stored as 31P (or something like that). > The supplier at the time could not solve the problem and we abandoned the > project. > > Can anybody tell me what the situation is at the moment See my earlier mail for reading and writing information. AS for the contents of the records MF and Informix use different field types. You still have to write your own routines to do numeric and date conversions between the two types. Hope this helps. Cheers, Jim -------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Jim Gordon Internet: jgordon@ssf-sys.DHL.COM Company: DHL Systems Inc Phone: (415) 358-5911 (Direct) Address: 1700 S. Amphlett Blvd. (415) 574-4197 (Switch) San Mateo, CA 94402 Fax: (415) 571-6429 --------------------------------------------------------------------