I need to export data from Cobol data files (dat, inx) to anything else (txt, cvs, excel access, whatever). I need to do this using C# and .
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The first page of the Import COBOL file wizard, titled Import COBOL Files, allows you to specify the COBOL files that contain the data structures that you want to convert to service flow project messages, and also allows you to specify the subproject in which you want to store the new message files. I recently got a project to convert COBOL data to MS Access. I was asked to do this by using Visual Basic. If you don't know COBOL. Cobol Data-Viewer: View/Convert Cobol Data Files Data-Viewer can read a Cobol data file and convert it non-Cobol formats such as CSV, DBF, Oracle, Excel, etc. This is what DataViewer can do: Read file with Known Record Layout. Record layout of the You.
NET platform. But I cannot open or read this files (I tried as flat file with fixed row size and separator, I tried different data readers like Siber. Data. Viewer or even simple notepad) if open file I can see only strange characters.
I wonder I anyone know some ODBC driver or data reader which will be able to open and read this files (free or with demos, trials to check if it works witch my dat,inx files before I buy it). About files – I know that they contain information about daily incomes/outcomes, guests, rooms, services etc. Hotels use Cobol application called Re. Hot which store data in dat(data), inx(indexes) files. Software vendor of course won't help and application cannot export data to different files only print them on fiscal printer.
I will be very glad for any help/advice/suggestion you can offer me to solve this problem.