A PC based Cobol to merge and convert data for transmission to other Cobol users

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We are looking for a PC based Cobol product to take in files from DBs, Crystal... and merge them into a fixed length file with header, detail, and footer records. This output file would then be sent to a Cobol shop for further use. This problem arose when we moved away from Cobol to 4th GL languages and our providers did not. Presently the home grown system takes in two files from SQL, sort them, and turns them into into IDX files ( indexed sequential) in two seperate programs. A third file merges these two and a third data file producing a fixed field length, fixed record length file with a header record containing company info, detail records, and a footer record containing total info. We need to replace this mainframe based Cobol with a PC based Cobol. Preferably a straight conversion of programs and JCL to a PC format.