recover data file format from pgm file ?

Hi everybody,

I have to recover cobol data files from a software...

These files are from acucorp and i used VUTIL32 -rebuild to reindex them so,
if i understood what i read, they do not contain deleted record anymore.

with VUTIL32 -extract, i obtain a file format very near to be comprehensive,
except for numeric fields, of course...

So i wondered if it could be possible to extract from PGM (or PGW) files,
which seems to be executables files, the format of my .DAT files.

Thanks for your help !
(and thanks to moralistics guys not to answer that "i'd better pay for the
soft" : i payed for it, but not have the source code and the software
company does not exists anymore.)

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:29:13 +0200, "cc" <someone@some.where> wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>I have to recover cobol data files from a software...
>
>These files are from acucorp and i used VUTIL32 -rebuild to reindex them so
,
>if i understood what i read, they do not contain deleted record anymore.
>
>with VUTIL32 -extract, i obtain a file format very near to be comprehensive
,
>except for numeric fields, of course...
>
>So i wondered if it could be possible to extract from PGM (or PGW) files,
>which seems to be executables files, the format of my .DAT files.
>
>Thanks for your help !
>(and thanks to moralistics guys not to answer that "i'd better pay for the
>soft" : i payed for it, but not have the source code and the software
>company does not exists anymore.)
>
Assuming you still have the programs I would try the following.

1- See if the FD´s were supplied with the programs. Some companies do
it.
2- Run the program with option "-d". This allows you to run in debug
mode. If the programs were compiled with Source Debug then you will be
able to retrieve the full sources.

3- Contact the company that made the software and ask them for the
FD´s. Most will give this with no problem, and others can be "forced"
to do it.


Frederico Fonseca
ema il: frederico_fonseca at syssoft-int.com