You might want to use the link Francois just gave and get a copy of the
"Using KSAM XL and KSAM 64" manual (or google for it...)

Chapters 3 and 4 seems to cover the areas you have questions about.
Listfile,5 seems to be a rightly nifty thing ;-)

Rather than beat yourself silly trying to get devise a pure cobol solution,
you might be well advised to *augment* what you're doing with some CI
scripts that you call from your program.           - d


Donna Hofmeister
Allegro Consultants, Inc.
408-252-2330


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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Cobol: Cobol and HPFOPEN

Thanks for the response.

The reason I need the intrinsics is that Cobol requires that the file be
correctly defined in order to use Cobol to open it.

To open a KSAM file, for example, you must define all the keys for the file
in the Cobol program. 

I want to be able to open any input file (or almost any file) without the
program knowing any of the file characteristics until it is opened.

Then I want the Cobol program to be able to create a new output file from
scratch, using only the characteristics of the input file.

So I can't build the file characteristics into the program using Cobol
constructs.

Think of it as similar to what FCOPY does.

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