Hi You can try write: SETVAR COBRUNTIME ' W' -------------------- Jacek Piskorz [log in to unmask] Charly Tango napisał(a) w wiadomości: <[log in to unmask]>... >Hello listers, > >Last weekend we upgraded our HP3000 from MPE iX 4.0 to 5.5. >We have lots of powerhouse and cobol applications running. > >One of our cobol programs gave the following error: > >Filename: F705D01 >File status is 48 >FILE NOT OPENED or MODE INCORRECT [47,48,49,9x] WRITE (COBERR 638) >Program file: co705011.obj705.pers >END OF FILE (FSERR 0) > >The file mentioned above is a direct file opened I-O, read once and written >once. > >After altering the sequence to: > Open Input/read/close and Open Output/write/close >the problem was solved. > >Is this a known bug?? >Are there more bugs like this?? > >T.I.A. >Cees Tuinder, Boskalis-Westminster Dredging Co., the Netherlands. > >