Please contact Veryant Support to request a utility which can be used to convert a Micro Focus relative file to isCOBOL format.

Here is the story:

In Micro Focus COBOL, the format of an ORGANIZATION RELATIVE file with fixed-length records is the same as that of an ORGANIZATION BINARY SEQUENTIAL file with fixed-length records, except that each record has appended to it a two-byte marker that has the value X"0D0A" if the record exists and X"0D00" if the record has been deleted. If the file has variable-length records the format is similar except that each record is preceded by a two-byte record size, then padded with low-values to the maximum size, and followed by the two-byte marker.

In isCOBOL, the record storage format for relative files does not include two-byte record-size indicators or record-deleted markers. Instead, the records are stored consecutively including only the record data. If necessary, each record is padded with low-values to the maximum size.

isCOBOL marks deleted records in the file by replacing the record data with all low-values. Therefore writing a record containing all low-values from COBOL will cause that record to appear to be deleted.