Efren writes:
> Im still working on the year 2000 project. Im doing a serial read using
> cobol, to update the date fields. To update critical items I delete the
> record then write the record using the updated fields.  The problem is

Stop right there.

Enable the database for Critical Item Update, which will allow you
to simply DBGET/DBUPDATE ... no DBDELETE, no DBPUT.

:DBUTIL
set dbname CIUPDATE=ON
exit