I am tyring to run a microfocus cobol program on an HP-UX box to access an I4 file and everytime I try to open the file as input. The program dies on a status code 39(file attributes different than program specified). I did a fh -i on the file and the only thing that is different is the file length. It should be 217 but show 215. Is there a utility I can run to change the record length of the file to 217? The output from the fh -i is below:

FHINFO output for archdr being placed into archdr.def



# Copyright (c) 1999 MERANT International Ltd

IN archdr
IE
IT I4
IF 215
# Number of records - -1
# Block size - 1023
NL n-computer
PK (21:10:CHARTYPE)
AK (0:31:CHARTYPE)
DC 1

Are you asking - How do I pad my record length to 217 in a file?

If so...

awk '{printf("%-217s\n",$0)}' yourFile > newFile

I think you need to re-post this question in the:

comp.lang.cobol usenet forum...

Does this still work for an indexed file?

It will work on an ASCII file.

What is an indexed file? (I know next to nothing about COBOL)

I worked with Microfocus a Looooooooooong time ago and if I remeber correctly, there is a file utility which copies a file from one structure to another.

This is why I suggested you re-post this question in the 'COBOL' forum because there may be someone that can better help you.

Good luck.