> What are you trying to accomplish?

We are porting two mainframe applications to AIX. The mainframe is
being decommissioned, so reading files from the mainframe is out of
the question.

One application is totally batch and it uses vsam files. The other is
CICS and batch using IMS databases. The CICS application is being
converted to DB2, and we hoped that we would not have to convert the
vsam files from the first application, to db2 also.

We are using TX Series 5.1 for the CICS application, and it appears
that Encina (which comes with TX Series), emulates VSAM, but only for
CICS programs. Converting the batch programs to batch CICS programs is
not an option.

We are also using IBM Cobol for AIX.

Thanks for your reply,
Dave