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The Question is: Our docketing system, including reports, reside(s) on the Vax. Several of these reports require signatures. Is there a way we can have the signatures reside on the p.c. and have them called into the Vax cobol programs as necessary? We would like to find a way to "auto-sign", if you will, these reports. How would that be possible? Is it possible on our architecture? If not, what would we need to make it possible on our architecture? Thank you, Helen Mashburn The Answer is : Most any software problem is solvable, once the problem is understood in sufficient detail and given access to the code -- the particular software requirements here are not understood by the OpenVMS Wizard, and the code appears to be a third-party "docket" application package. OpenVMS and most other systems do not have a concept of a "signature file", though there can quite easily be a file that contains a signature, potentially either containing a cryptographic signature or possibly just a simple digitally-encoded (digitized) scan or other similar graphic representation. Some systems might confusingly refer to these standard files as a "signature file", of course. COBOL can certainly include files and can certainly read and write files, but COBOL itself does not inherently know what a file containing a signature might be used for, nor how the file might be processed or displayed. Once this sort of detail is clear, a solution is rather more likely feasible. Please contact your "docket" software vendor for assistance with the technical issue. Please consult your presiding judge regarding whether the resulting "signatures" would be legally binding.
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