VisualAge for COBOL VisualAge-related FAQs

The following Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) focus on VisualAge for COBOL in general:

I'm trying to read an ASCII file and am getting a status key 91 in my open. What am doing wrong?

When the ORGANIZATION clause is omitted from the SELECT statement the compiler assumes ORGANIZATION IS SEQUENTIAL (see page 105 of the IBM COBOL Language Reference, SC26-4769-01). This applies to record-oriented sequential files versus the byte-stream oriented ASCII text file. To process these files, specify ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL

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