Cobol

ine

I have to extract data from cobol files (.dat, .key) to Navision Attain. Can anybody help me whit that?

Christian_Buehl

I don't know about native COBOL files, but somtime ago I worked on a COBOL application that created such ".dat" files using a btrieve engine (which is a ISAM-Database). Btrieve was very common on Novell platforms.
With a DOS-Tool called BUTIL (butil -save xyz.dat target.txt you can export this data to a simple ASCII Format which can be read with a dataport.

Waldo

I didn't try it, because I do not have cobol files, but maybe you can use this tool:

http://devx.componentsource.com/BuyComponents/ProductCatalog/ProductPage.asp?Browse=Y&Key=0&ProductOptions=2055_60X

jyotsnas

Hi there

If you have these files in a predefined format, then you may use instream object for reading these files.

Regards
Jyotsna

ine

Christian Buehl wrote:

I don't know about native COBOL files, but somtime ago I worked on a COBOL application that created such ".dat" files using a btrieve engine (which is a ISAM-Database). Btrieve was very common on Novell platforms.
With a DOS-Tool called BUTIL (butil -save xyz.dat target.txt you can export this data to a simple ASCII Format which can be read with a dataport.

I tried it but it didn't work, it results in an error. But thanks anyway.