On Fri, 01 May 1998 16:07:22 +0200, Chris Breemer
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>This might be a real dumb question, but :
>
>If I want to access TurboIMAGE data from a COBOL program, do I have
>to use DB* intrinsics or can I do it using the standard COBOL  I/O
>commands ?
>
>TIA.

You should probably use the DB intrinsics. However, if all you want to
do is serial read a particular dataset, and have proper priveleges
(PM, I think) you CAN open a dataset like a normal file and read it
using the COBOL file I/O routines. However, you certainly can't write
to the datasets this way, and you can't take advantage of search
values, chains, etc.
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