Re: [open-cobol-list] Re: File io.

[John R. Culleton]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 06:37 am, Roger While wrote:
> 1) ALTERNATE KEY.
> The COBOL standard (85 and 2002) only
> allows one data item to be specified.
> 2) CRT.
> As stated it is pending. It can only be implemented
> when we have screen handling in place.
> (On my TODO list)
> Note this was not in the 85 standard (AFAIK), but is
> in the 2002 standard.
> 3) LOCK MODE.
> This was not in the 85 standard (AFAIK), but is in
> the 2002 standard.
> As stated pending.
> For IS files, this is very much dependent on the
> underlying software ie. Berkeley DB.
> BDB does not provide the necessary hooks to
> achieve this.
> We may be able to do it if we eventually use
> something else like VBISAM.
>
> Roger

Is VBISAM available free for Linux? 
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