RTollison

no cobol doesn't have native support for that, i would have to create a dll for the communications. i am ok with creating the xml and experimenting/adjusting as needed. Funny part is where i saw a forum on here talking about the death of Cobol by some specific time frame. My employer has been using it since 1985 and we have over 1,200+ customers who use it and are happy with the applications.

I am having to create the xml file using cobol program. I am creating the file to do mail merge in the dll. so far by using the same values in the xml file it seems to be working but I am testing on a small number of records < 20 just concerned if it goes to 2000 or so

Thanks for pointer, but is there any documentation as to what all the table/column header fields mean. MinimumCapacity="50" Name="FDMemTable1" how do i know what is variable and its meaning versus a fixed value and possibly its meaning?