Patrick Dohman

I apologize for the confusion, Thank you for clarifying. Regards Patrick

Bump...Please see my edits to previous post.

Thanks Ralph, At this point it appears that OPEN I-O results in a "access" change only and the file is no longer being overwritten. Please note however that it currently appears that inclusion of the commented ALTERNATE RECORD KEY described above is currently creating a "shadow" copy of the indexed file IDXVIDEO.DAT Please see below for more info: [$$$@instance-########-#### ~]$ export DB_HOME=/home/opc [$$$@instance-########-#### ~]$ /usr/bin/ls -ctrl --color=auto /home/opc/IDXVIDEO.DAT SEQVIDEO.DAT...

Thanks Ralph, At this point it appears that OPEN I-O results in a "access" change only and the file is no longer being overwritten. Regards Patrick

At this point it appears that a GnuCOBOL is currently overwriting/recreating indexed files on Oracle Linux Server release 8.10 Please note I’m currently "using ;)” (GnuCOBOL) 3.2.0 and the default indexed file handler: BDB, version 5.3.28. See below for more info: [$$$@instance-########-#### ~]$ /usr/bin/cat /home/opc/Seq2Index.cob $SET SOURCEFORMAT"FREE" IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. Seq2Index. AUTHOR. Patrick Dohman. SECURITY. PRIVATE. *>Creates an indexed file from a sequential file. ENVIRONMENT...