Can the File Adapter handle Multiple Record Layouts in COBOL?

I am trying to parse flat files that have a record type field in the first four characters on each record. As a test I tried to use the following record definitions:
01 CONTRACT-HEADER.
05 RECORD-TYPE PIC X(4).
05 TRANSACTION-TYPE PIC X.
05 CONTRACT-NUMBER PIC X(32).
05 CONTRACT-RELEASE-NBR PIC X(30).
05 CONTRACT-FILLER PIC X(2025).
01 CONTRACT-LINEITEM.
05 RECORD-TYPE PIC X(4).
05 TRANSACTION-TYPE PIC X.
05 LINE-FILLER PIC X(1664).
I also tried smaller records with simple test data. When I press the "test" button in the native file adapter the XML is never generated if I have more than one record type as above. Suppose that the contract-header record type always has the string "X001" in it, while the contract-lineitem always has "X015" in the record-type. I chose Us-ascii and chose $eol as a delimiter. The file on my windows computer has carriage return line feed after each record. I know that the fixed length converter works, but because the records really have 50 fields on each record type and are long, I don't think I can actually use that one in one sitting. Has anyone ever gotten two different record lenght cobol definitions to work? Do I have to hand edit the XML to specify the delimiter? I don't see any delimter specified in the generated XML before I attempt the test.

Rahul,
I recommned you should use "|" as "," can be embedded in a text string. I guess you can pass a directive to use to deliver "|" delimited file :). If you want to handle both then you might have to write a shell script or bat to pass delimiter as an argument which will edit and replace your control file.
Regards

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