Microsoft KB Archive/33220

Must LINK to IXSIO.OBJ for ISAM Support in COBOL Version 3.0

PSS ID Number: Q33220 Article last modified on 04-21-1993

3.00 | 3 00 MS-DOS | OS/2

Summary: To enable Indexed Sequential (ISAM) file support in Microsoft COBOL Version 3.0, it is important to link in the IXSIO.OBJ file, as shown below: (No changes need to be made to the source code to interact with the IXSIO object file.) LINK [progname]+[supportlibs]+IXSIO.OBJ; In contrast, Versions 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 of Microsoft COBOL do not have a LINK step, and they support ISAM files by requiring a program called ISAM.EXE to be installed in memory before running a program which opens ISAM files. ISAM.EXE is a terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) program which is provided on the COBOL Version 2.x release disk.

Additional reference words: 3.00 Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.