Re: Cobol interface to an Informix Table?

> Hello Everybody > We have a legacy application running software written in Cobol . > We are currently writing a smaller application in 4gl. The problem > is we need to unload some tables into flat files which can be read > by the existing cobol program OR write a cobol program(which I dont > know how!) to obtain this data from the Informix tables directly. > I know this is possible but any information on this subject will be > appreciated especially because the existing cobol program to read the > flat file has some complicated variable declarations like "comp" etc.. > Any information will be helpful. > Thanks for your time. > > -sanjay Sanjay, you can get hold of an ESQL/COBOL product. That would do what you wanted. Alternatively, you can write an ACE report which produces a fixed format ASCII file which could also be read by COBOL. Malcolm Weallans Online Database Consultancy Phone 01628-72154 Fax 01628-37463 CIX - onlinedbc