Fernando Delgado

As you didn't mention which vendor you are using, I will assume (based
on the error number) that you are using a RM/COBOL runtime.

As far as I know all versions equal or greater than 5.36 will work.
If the version is older than this one then it is possible it doesn't.

Anyway. Error 98 can be caused for several things, so I sugest you run
whatever recovery program you have supplied with your runtime disks
(you do have them DO you?)j
In the case of RM/COBOL this would be normally "recover1.exe".

If you could give us more information it could help.

FF

Regards, Ronald Leenheer

It looks like your  client is running RM/COBOL.  Two things that might be of
interest are found in the READ.ME file for
RM/COBOL version 7.00+ for 32-bit Windows.  You did not say what version of
RM/COBOL you are running but these may be something to look at.  They refer
to Windows NT but I think they apply to Windows 2000 as well.    The
extended error code for the 98 error would be useful to know.

          2. Network Redirector File Caching

               This section applies only to Windows NT Server and
               Workstation.

               By default, when the Windows NT redirector opens a file for
               read or read/write access, the redirector uses the Windows
               NT system cache.  As a result, when data is written to the
               file, it is written to the cache and not immediately flushed
               to the redirector.  The cache manager flushes the data at a
               later time.  If an unrecoverable network error occurs while
               the data is being transferred to the remote server, it may
               cause the write request to fail.

               For more information, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base
                Article:

                http://support.microsoft.com
                /support/kb/articles/q163/4/01.asp

          3. Opportunistic Locking on Windows NT

               This section applies only to Windows NT Server.

               With Opportunistic Locking, if a file is opened in a
               non-exclusive mode, the network redirector requests an
               opportunistic lock of the entire file. As long as no other
               process has the file open, the server will grant this
               oplock, giving the redirector exclusive access to the
               specified file. This will allow the redirector to perform
               read-ahead, write-behind, and lock caching, as long as no
               other process tries to open the file.

               Liant Software recommends that this Windows NT feature be
               disabled.

            For more information, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base
                Article:

                http://support.microsoft.com
                /support/kb/articles/q129/2/02.asp

-Rob