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Micro Focus Enterprise Developer 2.3 for Visual Studio 2015 > Programming > Data Access > File Handling > File Handling Guide > Introduction

Introduction

  • Overview
    COBOL offers file handling capabilities for files of sequential, relative and indexed organization, using simple COBOL syntax. In addition, Micro Focus COBOL offers additional file handling features.
  • Micro Focus File Handler
    The Micro Focus File Handler, by default, performs all COBOL I/O operations on all the standard COBOL file organizations: sequential, relative and indexed files.
Parent topic: File Handling Guide
Related information
File Organizations
Filenames
File Status
Sharing Files
File Handler Configuration
File Handler and Sort APIs
Sort Utilities
Btrieve
Data and Key Compression
Tracing File Operations
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