OPEN INPUT FILE - Error 9/56

I have an application copied from a SCO UnixWare system (using a Liant COBOL runtime and compiler) to a SUSE Linux system (using Visual COBOL 2.2).  Copying was as simple as taring the application, copying over to the new system, and untar.  Paths are all the same, as are permissions.  The immediate goal is to simply get the application running on the new system.  This is the FILE-CONTROL:

SELECT INQFL 

                 ASSIGN TO RANDOM "/mypath/INQFL" 

                 ORGANIZATION IS INDEXED 

                 ACCESS MODE IS DYNAMIC 

                 RECORD KEY IS I-KEY 

                 FILE STATUS IS IND-STATUS. 

The application compiles but on execution of the line OPEN INPUT INQFL, IND-STATUS contains "98".  The debugger shows the INQFL with "Closed Last status: 9/56".

Not finding much help online, anyone have any ideas?