Cobol index file corrupt

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Guys and girls,

I've got a corrupt index file on Unix not HPUX, but I believe this should make no difference.

MicroFocus Cobol 4.0
OS Solaris 6

Has someone got a Cobol program which can recreate this index file from the data file.

I've seen some docs on ITRC saying that this should be possible, but there are no commands given.

Regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Alexander M. Ermes · Accepted solution]

Hi there.
You should be able to do this with some sort tool.
I have done this on mainframes, where you take the sequential file as input and an ISAM file as output with the appropiate parameters set for the sort run.
I do not know, whether this is possible on Unix, but basically it should be. If yes i also would be interested, which tool it is.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Julio Yamawaki]

Hi,

try using fhrebuild

[Julio Yamawaki]

Hi,

try this address for more details:

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/otsearch/getfile?id=/hpux/onlinedocs/dev/cobol/fh/fhutil.htm&searchterms=fhrebuild&queryid=20030526-124926

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Alexander and Julio,

Thanks for your support, I will look into these suggestions.

Alexander did you preform this rebuild on an IBM mainframe ?

I will keep this question open for a while. It is a productional problem.

Please all of you feel free to add suggestions.

Kind regards.

Robert-Jan.

[Scott Williams_5]

Hi,

You Should be able to use micro focus's fhrebuild utility: >whence fhrebuild
/opt/cobol/bin/fhrebuild

I've attached a short description of how I've rebuilt isam files on our HPUX system. Hope this helps!

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Here are the steps I used,

Thanks for your support Alexander, Julio and Scott.

Kind regards,

Robert-Jan.