>>>Most COBOL dat files are text files in a fixed width format. [use ODBC...]
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>If it's a fixed width text file, why not APPEND FROM SDF? Or at the very worst, you should be able to get it with FOPEN() and FGETS() or FREAD(). Is there something I'm missing here, or is ODBC an unneccesary complication in this scenario?
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>Please forgive my jumping in with no knowledge of COBOL.


Any help is appreciated... But all this I've already tried... It shows me only junk characters, when the file is finally imported...