Key words to be looking for would be "IDENTIFICATION DIVISION", "DATA DIVISION" "FILE-CONTROL" "FILE SECTION". COBOL source code uses very English-like words. It would be normal, but not necessary, for RM/COBOL source code to have file names with the extension ".CBL". If this application was developed 'in house' then probably somewhere the source code is stored. Since you are not a programmer, I will not bore you with the details of why this is so unless you really wish to know.ĭo you have the source code for the programs? If so, your work will be much, much easier. But this would also be of help.Īttempting to reverse engineer the data layout of any COBOL file, whether it is in RM indexed format, RM binary sequential format (as produced by recover2), or Micro Focus format is very, very tedious work. I tried to find something in the "Properties for Runtime" dialog box that sets copy specifications. But there are hundreds of lines there to copy. Or Is there a way to copy all the lines as text at once of the RM/Cobol-85 window? Now I am able to copy only one line of the opened RM/Cobol dat-file window.what kind of file structure it is or what is a copybook. I heard about Record Editor but I don't know how to use it, e.g. Is there a way or program for an end user to extract or copy all the data of the dat-file in an readable way to MS Excel or a text file?.We use RM/Cobol-application on a Windows 7 platform with MS-Office 2007. Unfortunately our programmes are not maintenanced any more. I am just an end user of this application.
But I am not a programmer and not familiar with RM/Cobol. I am having a RM/Cobol-85 dat-file (indexed file?) which data I need to have extracted in a readable way for analysis (e.g.
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