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In native COBOL we could define a dictionary and that could be set as external which allowed us to access it via our external filehandler. In .NET COBOL it seems it is no longer possible to define a dictionary as external.Can anyone suggest an alternative given that the information that can be passed to an external filehandler is limited and controlled by the run-time?

I was curious if others are running into printing problems with recent Windows 11 updates (at least I suspect that is the cause).  We have had about 5-6 customers report this problem starting 6 weeks ago. When they print from our software running AcuCobol-GT Windows Runtime, they get a pop-up box from saying "please wait for printer connection or cancel connection". Some are reporting it eventually after waiting will move on and print. Others have said they have to click Cancel once or twice to get it to move on. Yesterday, we had one that says sometimes it will not print at all. We are wondering if it has something to do with this new "Windows Protected Print Mode" that is showing up when you look at printers under Windows Settings as this seems to be something new Microsoft is doing. Our main problem with these clients is that all of they claim that it ONLY does this in our software running AcuCobol-GT, and that they can print other things such as emails, websites, out of Office, etc

Hi,when will be the support for Vulkan in ExceedTurboX available?  best regards,Stefan

As part of our slow migration from CS to DSP, I have a form with an HTML widget, (the only field painted).  On the loaded DSP I have an attributes only field (button) with a call to unifaceTriggers in the onClick. This is supposed to call another instance which runs crystal reports and produces a print. The first click on this field performs the actions as appropriate. After which, none of the fields in the DSP are responsive. I can't type in text areas, I can (apparently) click one radio group, but the onChange is not fired, clicking the 'button' which just worked does nothing.  To try and find the issue, the uniface trigger in the form is now  askmess "Printing" return 0 But the issue persists.  The onclick trigger I am clicking is  webtrigger onClick javascript p=this.getParent(); f=p.getField("PPV_PREP_ID"); id=f.getValue(); rpt=p.getInstance().getEntity("FILTERS.NOMODEL").getOccurrence(0).getField("D_REPORT_FILE").getValue() if (typeof window.unifaceTriggers === "function") {

I have windows Enterprise Developer and want to compile linux executable , need clear documentation on how to achive that my server is on Redhart 9.8 Need documentation on how to configure the Windows Developer to compile Linux compatible code

In D3 using Telnet how do you send a <Ctrl>-Break when your keyboard doesn’t have a Break key?Using ACCUTERM how do you send a <Ctrl>-break when your keyboard doesn’t have a break key?

I’d like to update my copy of Rocket Terminal Emulator from 10.1 to 10.3. However:RTE 1.0 help says “Download the Rocket TE CD image”, but it doesn’t say where to download it from. The only download page I could find is one that offers a 30-day trial and requires an email address, name, etc. Rocket Terminal Emulator is not listed on www.rocketsoftware/en-us/products. Even in this forum, “Rocket Host Access” is the closest product name I could find.Where do I find a copy to download? Thanks.

We had a D3 customer who did a Windows update which updated the version of NTDLL.DLL (that's Windows' .dll not D3's). After that his 10.4.0.2 VME crashed five times in one day. After some investigation we determined that there was some heap corruption going on in D3 that was not detected by the earlier version of the NTDLL.DLL (10.0.20348.5020) but was detected by the updated version (10.0.20348.5139). When this heap corruption was detected, NTDLL killed the D3 VME. The customer then rolled back the NTDLL.DLL version and the VME crashes have ceased. In this particular instance, the NTDLL.DLL was updated by Windows update (Microsoft release) KB5087545 from May 12th, 2026, but that will change from update to update.We at Rocket are looking into this, but meanwhile please be aware. We have not had this reported by anyone else other than this one customer, but that doesn't guarantee that it wouldn't happen to anyone else. We suggest that you NOT apply any Windows updates that contain the u

How can you call up NOTEPAD from within D3 on a Windows 11 machine?I tried…EXECUTE “!NOTEPAD”The program seems to try to shell out, but it doesn’t call up notepad.I’m coming from mvBase and have shelled out to NOTEPAD from there extensively.

Hi Everyone,I’m on AcuCOBOL 10.4.1 and I’m trying to use JSON PARSE.  I’m getting an error and while I can get the error code (JSON-CODE) I can’t figure out how to get the additional information in the description that I see in the manual.  For instance, if I get code 100, I’m looking for the full message “JSON PARSE on line <line-num>, JSON text invalid at offset <offset>.” with <line-num> and <offset> filled in so I can actually find the offending part of my input.I couldn't find anything in the documentation or examples that did anything except display JSON-CODE.

Should you use dotnet build or msbuild to compile COBOL assemblies to .NET core 8?For example if I wanted to do a local recompile of my whole applications, I have a PowerShell script that does the compile, but I used “dotnet build”When I went and loaded a project and compiled,  I think I observed after using “dotnet build” then using Visual Studio you get a file tracking log file error, “The tracking data is invalid”  FTK1013.Agreed dotnet build is more lightweight, but are there other consequences?Neil

10.4 is D3 Windows FSI architecture over Linux, not Windows. The main differences:1) Almost everything is stored in the local file system (FSI = File System Interface) and not the VME blob. A good consequence of this is that you no longer have to allocate a disk partition or logical volume for D3. In the Linux file system there would be a /usr/lib/pick/database directory with subdirectories for each D3 account, each containing subdirectories for each dict-level file in that account, each containing subdirectories for each data-level in that file, each containing the D3 data file itself in main and overflow files with indexes in separate files (.D3C, .D3T, .D3O, .D3X). The data structure within those files is extremely similar to the 10.3 VME blob where you have frames containing your data hashed to the appropriate frame.2) D3 is a single multi-threaded Linux process instead of each PIB being a separate Linux process. This actually makes it faster, but introduces some problems, like mem

We have may programs that use basic format like “R%8” to prefill zeroes that were not entered or came from Excel who loves to strip them off.We just updated our development server from 11.3.1.6022 to 14.2.1.If your basic program takes a number in missing leading zeroes, “R%8” would turn 1234 into 00001234 in UV 11.3.1.  However, on 14.2.1, it acts like a simple “R#8” and does not add the leading zeroes.Does anyone have an idea why this functionality changed and what to do to correct it?  This could damage many of our files’ data that rely on this functionality.Nelson Schroth

Host Connectivity Product Lifecycle UpdatesThe last year and a half have been very busy in the terminal emulation space at Rocket! Since kicking off our updated product strategy with Rocket Secure Host Access as our flagship product, we’ve been updating the lifecycle of our heritage emulators. Since last summer, we’ve been making announcements about a move to maturity for the heritage emulators. Additionally, we’ve been conducting customer webinars for each product. You should have all been included in those communications, but in case you’d like to rewatch one of the webinars, or maybe you missed it the first time, the links are all available here.List of Product Maturity Customer WebinarsReflection Desktop & InfoConnect Desktop HostExplorer Reflection for the Web Extra! Reflection Enterprise Suite WebConnect InfoConnect Enterprise BlueZone OnWeb Web-to-Host Rumba Rocket Terminal Emulator (RTE) Desktop RTE Web Edition + RTE Mobile Edition PASSPORT Host Access Management and Securi

Implementing a mainframe modernization project using Rocket ED and Rocket ES on AWS. Target will run on RHEL. ED v11has been installed on AWS Workspace for individual developers.ES v11 has be installed on RHEL 9.8. On the ED, developers are creating remote projects on ED installed on Single Shared Linux box where the code will be compiled and tested. During development environment setup, we experienced challenges with remote compilation/builds from Enterprise Developer (on aws workspace) to a shared Linux environment. As a workaround, we provisioned dedicated EC2 instances for individual developers, with ED installed and configured on each developer server. This approach was also intended to provide isolated development workspaces and local Git repositories for concurrent development activities.Would like to confirm:Whether provisioning a dedicated EC2 instance per developer is recommended/supported architecture for Rocket Enterprise Developer. Whether a shared Linux build environment

I’d like to configure the system to read the LDAP list of users (Name and SamAccountName). I have perused the documentation on creating an LDAP path, and defining ‘entities’ to allow for data retrieval. However, I am utterly lost, as I have no knowledge whatsoever if the underlying structure to be able to make out the definition of the ‘entity’. This seems to be untestable in a step by step way, you have to have the server, organisation, etc all in place to do a test, and I don’t know if my selected answers for any of them are in the right ballpark so I can’t configure a baseline test. Has anyone got a simple ‘person’ entity for LDAP I can ‘borrow’? Regards, Iain

Greetings Rocketeers!We are on WIndows, preparing to move from Universe 11.xxx to 14.xxxHave any of y’all made this upgrade recently?  Were there any functional issues after upgrading?  Is there a test plan available anywhere we could get our hands? Many THX,

Prior to MX Web 10.6.3, support packages retrieved through the A&C Hub included connection details for every active session.In most cases, this session-level data was not required. On engines with hundreds or even thousands of connections, collecting this information could result in very large support package files, increased engine load, and, in some cases, timeouts in the Hub due to the extended collection time.Starting with MX Web 10.6.3, support package generation was limited to engine and backend information only. Session-specific details were no longer included by default.From MX Web 10.6.4 onward, administrators can choose between two options:Retrieve a standard support package from the Engine Instances view, containing engine and backend information. Retrieve a session-specific support package from the Session View when troubleshooting a particular session.This short video demonstrates both procedures and explains the differences between the resulting log files. 

Hi all,I have a problem where if I try to set the enter key from the GUI Designer, to behave the same as tab except for multiline text or command button - once I set this option and press ok - if I go back to the option it has been defaulted back to Normal.This happens every time and on different work stations - is it just a bug or am I doing something wrong?Any help appreciated!Many thanksMike  

Greetings, Rocketeers!How can I accomplish moving BASIC source code from a production environment to a development environment?…THX!~Doc

IntroCybersecurity isn’t always top of mind for mainframe users and IT teams, but the growing AI threat makes it clear that security can no longer be an afterthought. Ransomware Is Increasingly an Identity ProblemA new July 2026 ransomware study from Sophos found that nearly 80% of ransomware attacks now begin with an identity-based attack path, including compromised credentials, phishing, and malicious email campaigns. The findings reinforce a growing reality for security teams: attackers are increasingly succeeding not by exploiting software flaws, but by gaining access through legitimate accounts and trusted identities. For organizations focused on resilience, the message is clear—identity governance, MFA coverage, privileged access controls, and continuous monitoring have become just as important as traditional malware defenses.AI-Powered Attacks Move from Theory to RealityIn July, Hugging Face disclosed a security incident involving autonomous AI-driven activity that accessed inte

The customer I am working with has been struggling with RDRS v6.1 in a z/VSE environment for well over a year without being able to actually get the product into production for various reasons--though many issues are being resolved successfully.  The biggest remaining reason is the performance (or lack thereof) for RDRS CDC in capturing batch VSAM changes and sending them down to DB2/LUW on the network side.Initially we were told that the problem was slow TCP/IP transmissions.  We resoled that with a 900+% improvement.  But my observations, while monitoring large batch update jobs, are that CDC isn’t even *starting* to download accumulated VSAM changes until up to 5 minutes *after* the update job has ended!  Thus, even if that batch job didn’t overflow the 1G total dataspace available for the pool, follow-on batch update jobs would--resulting in “TVS066E Data Lost”.Then, we were finally told that RDRS v6.1 is not intended to keep up with the rate at which we are generating VSAM changes

Running Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition and Visual Cobol Personal Edition. Fired up Visual Studio and tried to open one of my solutions. Received  the attached errors. All the programs in Solution Explorer were marked ‘Incompatible’.  I’m unsure as to whether this means my license has expired or whether it is a different problem.Please see attached.TIA

We have had a problem since updating uniface to ‘recent’ patches (16, 32, and now 42). The Global Search from the ADDITIONAL.uar appears to lock up and never come back. There is no progress indicator on the latest version (I’m sure it used to tell you where it was looking in U9...) Is anyone else encountering this? Or do you not use it because XXX. Please let me know if it’s working for you. I did try replacing the uar file with the latest from the downloads, no change in behaviour. Hey Unifacers, any chance of making the source more ‘open’ so I could have a hack at it? Regards, Iain