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I’m trying to configure the db.mvbasic.json file for includeMapping.I’m wondering if the issue I’m having is because in our programs, our $INSERT lines do not contain the file name.  Somehow, don’t ask me how, regardless of which file the $INSERT is in, the compiler finds it and adds it.For example, here’s a typical line:     $insert ENVIRON_CONSTANTS.INS.IBASENVIRON_CONSTANTS.INS.IBAS is not contained within an actual Universe account, nor is it in the same file as the source code.  This is confusing me when configuring the includeMapping section.Here’s what I tried:I added my development account to accounts section:    "accounts": [        {            "name": "devbtr",            "path": "/home/dev/devbtr"        }    ],ENVIRON_CONSTANTS.INS.IBAS is located under /home/dev/cadsrc/INSERTIn the account devbtr, the VOC entry that points to it is CADSRC.INSERT     CADSRC.INSERT0001 F0002 /home/dev/cadsrc/INSERT0003 /uvdata/uv/D_UFD/home/dev/cadsrc is NOT a Universe account. I tried:   

Hi ,  since January (2026) we started the preparation to implement Changeman ZMF 8.3.1.  Investigation was ongoing. By accident , when checking some info on your website mid February , we discovered that since February 10 th (2026)  version 8.3.2 is available.   Since we discovered this by accident , we were surprised.Is there a way we can be informed when a new version is available ?  (We are already subscribed to newsletters)Or is no communication done on this topic ?

DownloadsProduct availability Matrix (PAM)Downloads of this patch are available from the Rocket Customer Support Portal. New Feature(s)Logging on Unix is now faster and more efficient. Uniface optimizes $putmess_logfile and $transcript_logfile for multi‑core CPUs using multi‑threaded logging, resulting in improved application responsiveness and overall performance.   The label text defined on the modeled field is now exposed as a property for widgets created with the UX Interface, and the standard Uniface UX widgets have been updated to display it. This enhancement improves inheritance behavior and streamlines modernization efforts. The widget’s _label‑text_ property can be used to override the field's label at runtime. Classic DSP widgets will continue to work as before, using a dedicated Label object. Please refer to the user documentation for additional details.CurrenciesAdded Support for Oracle 23ai (U7.7) on 64-bit Windows Server 2025.

Our team uses an Excel VBA macro to automate actions through Rocket Terminal Emulator (BlueZone). It was created on machines and is used by users that have Excel 32‑bit and the macro runs without any issues. New team members, however, are on Excel 64‑bit, and they are all getting the following error: Have anyone one else had similar errors and what was your solution?

We do all our exports to CSV by lfieldump and this works for yearsNow, however, a customer came up with the idea of using a DOS environment variable to determine the directory instead of fixed directories.So instead of "Q:\outpute\export1.csv,"it should now be "%app_export%\export1.csv"(where app_export is defined differently on each client).Unfortunately, Uniface cannot handle this; the file system converts it to "?app_export?\export1.csv," and the file system complains.Is there a simple solution for this, i.e., any letter combinations that can be used at the file system level to resolve "%%app_export%"?Of course, I can use a few tricks to ask Windows/DOS what the resolution is before each fieldump, and then replace that part. But I'm reluctant to check all our programs for this and make changes :-)A customer 

I’m told that universe support says: . ... they receive very few support cases related to NLS…There are a couple of possible reasons for this, one being that no-one actually uses it. We have code that supports some high-range ascii characters that would otherwise cause problems with the item storage but are looking to test a proper unicode solution. I really don’t want to be the first down this path ;-) Mike

Does anyone have an accurate handle on how and when AUTOLOGOUT triggers?   The manual says….Use AUTOLOGOUT to enable or disable automatic logout. With AUTOLOGOUT enabled, UniVerse logs you out automatically if you have not pressed a key within a specified time.But I don’t believe that is accurate.   We’ve had some confusing results in testing.   A process on a loop with periodic TIMEDATE() displays (output only) does not trigger.  Similarly a loop process with no screen output but just a SLEEP X also does not trigger even in between loops before it goes back to sleep.So, we are trying to understand the actual nuts and bolts of how/when it triggers.   Thanks for any help.Steve DouglasVP Systems AdminMBMS, LLC

If anyone finds themselves in the same situation as I was after applying patch 26 to 10.4.03 and the Ctrl+F no longer brings up the find box in the proc editor, then just add this to your usys.ini and it will get you going again. My guess is that when they added the feature “Go to line number in code” they broke whatever the defaults that were baked into the proc editor because the search and the search and replace worked just fine without having to be defined in the usys.ini file(s). I opened a support ticket on this and eventually solved it myself. Hopefully, they address it or at a minimum, add it automatically to the usys.ini in future patches as they are applied.[userkeys]code.search=Ctrl+Fcode.searchandreplace=Ctrl+Hcode.gotoline=Ctrl+G

This pertains to the use of external filehandlers, where my COBOL class is compiled with CALLFH"abcdef", which in tern needs to call fh/aaaaaa.dll which exists in the sub folder fh.The COBOL has :CALL “fh/aaaaaa” using ………During animation I debug the class, debug abcdef, but when it gets to the CALL “fh/aaaaaa” it doesn’t raise an exception but doesn’t execute the code either.I can see from procmon that the assembly was indeed loaded as well as the .pdb but just ignored almost as though it was looking for the programid but that didn’t match.Is this not supported?Is there an COBOL .NET  replacement for COBPATH ?Neil 

​​​​​​I am currently launching a Python script from RM/COBOL with CALL SYSTEM. Seems there is some overhead associated with SYSTEM, I am looking for a more efficient method.  Are there any alternatives recommended? 

We have a web page built in against an HTML widget in our CS. Clicking a button on the web page uses a JS trigger to start loading a CS form and populating it with data. Whilst this is happening (can be up to 10 seconds before the entire form is loaded/shown) the web page is active and there is no indication at the client end that anything is happening. I’d like to turn on the ‘Processsing’ function, as per the refresh/loading of the page in the first place, from JS calls to the HTML widget before the activate of the triggered form, and off again after the form is loaded. (So the user doesn’t think nothing is happening and click the button several times (causing multiple instances of the form to fire up). Is this possible? Putting the DSP into ‘locked/processing’ state without the round trip to the server refresh… Iain

All of my requests being sent via RESTful API that previously worked have recently been receiving a 429 HTTP status code indicating too many requests have been sent to the API.I'm getting the following response:{"ErrorTitle" : "Error 429 - Too Many Requests","ErrorMessage" : "Session limit has been reached. Please try again later."}The error is a general HTTP message, not specific to the product.How do I mitigate this obstacle? What is the admin configuration setting in the Enterprise Server to extend the session limit and relax the rate-limiting?The Retry-After header is an HTTP response header that informs the client how long it should wait before making another request is commonly used in scenarios where the server cannot process the request immediately, such as rate-limiting or scheduled downtime. I do not want any of the rate-limiting or scheduled downtime that I’m currently experiencing.

I have a JCL script that executes a COBOL program through a procedure (PROC0001). Specifically, the goal is to pass parameters to the procedure so that any COBOL program can be executed, and this is source code that is running in a production environment. However, when I try to run the same code on my PC with Enterprise Developer for Eclipse 11 on a Windows platform, the following errors occur:But when running the JCL script, a series of errors occur.Specifically, here is the relevant portion of the JCL script://JCL0001 JOB (0),'JCL0001',CLASS=?,MSGCLASS=?,USER=????????//STEP1 EXEC PROC=PROC0001,// PROGRAM=PGM00001,// DSN=DBP,// PLAN=PPGM0001,// LOAD1=PGMS.LIB.LOADHere I attach the part of PROC PROC0001 that I find relevant://PROC0001 PROC PROGRAM=XXXL9999,// DSN=XXX,// PLAN=XXXP9999,// LOAD1=STEC.LIBDUMMY.LOAD,// LOAD2=STEC.LIBDUMMY.LOAD,// LOAD3=STEC.LIBDUMMY.LOAD,// OUTC=*,// RGN=0K,// PARMS=&PARMSAnd the result of the execution produces the following errors:1 //JCL0001 JOB (0),

I am trying to call non-static Java methods from an executable file since static methods work fine in this environment.  I can accomplish this using cobjrun but it seems like the $java$ is not resolved correctly without cobjrun.I have tried adding all mf*.jar from the VisualCobol/lib directory into my CLASSPATH before execution but always get a load error similar to the following:Load error : file '$java$JavaCalculator'error code: 198, pc=0, call=1, seg=0198     Load failure Here are the files that show the failure:natcobol.cbl       $set ooctrl(+p-f)       program-id. natcobol.       class-control.          claJavacalled is class "$java$JavaCalculator".      * The above maps the Java class 'JavaCalculator' to the COBOL class name 'claJavacalled'       working-storage section.        copy "javatypes.cpy".           01 hCla            object reference.           01 l1              jlong value 10.           01 l2              jlong value 5.           01 retl            jlong.           0

Where can you download these clients? I can only find 5.4.2 and 5.4.1

Due to some security issues, the D3 installers' ability to automatically download dependency packages is no longer available. This makes it necessary to load dependencies manually before running D3_setup. Here are the instructions:First, disable D3_setup's attempt to load dependencies:mkdir /usr/lib/pick  ( if /usr/lib/pick doesn't already exist )cat /dev/null > /usr/lib/pick/d3depends  ( if the depends file doesn't already exist )==================================Manually loading dependencies on Linux versions 7 and lower:D3 Linux versions 9.2 and lower:yum install dialog.i686yum install glibc-develyum install ncurses-develyum install libgcc.i686yum install net-toolsyum install gccyum install pam-develyum install pam-devel.i686yum install glibc-develyum install glibc-devel.i686yum install libuuidyum install openssl098eyum install hal-libsyum install libidnD3 Linux versions 10.1 through 10.3.2:yum install dialogyum install dialog.x86_64yum install gccyum install libcurl-develyum ins

We would like to open a PDF file in the program and extract an attachment (in this case, an XML file) from this PDF file.Is there a way to do this?

We are attempting to submit a JCL job to our local enterprise solution server via the ESMAC JES control API and are receiving a response with code 400 and message stating “No Origin of Referer header present.” How do we configure the server to allow access control from all origins?

I'm submitting a job submisison request to JESControl using the REST client to the following url  POST "">ip.address.of.server:10086/.../jescontrol" But my request is getting rate limited and I'm getting the following response: { "ErrorTitle" : "Error 429 - Too Many Requests", "ErrorMessage" : "Session limit has been reached. Please try again later."} How do I handle this response. Is the amount to wait before sending the next request is available in any HTTP header ? Usually when rate-limiting is implemented, the amount of seconds to wait will be available in the 'retry-after' header, however for the above request, I did not see any such header in the response received. So wanted to know if Enterprise Server JESControl is setting this value in any other header or if there is any other way to handle this.  Thanks for your response. Really appreciate.#EnterpriseServer

I have some data held in a field which I am painting on a DSP. Currently the field is set to statictext, but if I make the surrounding structure (div etc) have a fixed width, the field contents overflow it. I want to set them to wrap inside the width. However, the STATICTEXT field type translates to SPAN, and SPAN does not follow width or word-wrap, what DSP field type can I use doe display only text which follows the wordwrap stuff. I tried making the field ‘ATTRIBUTESONLY’ but then the text is not displayed (the ‘static text’ from the HTS is shown instead...) Regards, Iain 

HI all,  I have just recently upgraded from Accuterm 7 to the latest version of Accuterm 8.1.1.1134. I am currently having an issue if I attempt to run a second instance of Accuterm, the first instance of Accuterm is displayed. I have 2 Accuterm sessions saved on my desktop, the first open fine. When the second session is selected the first session displays. In settings I have checked the option to "open sessions in a new window instead of a new tab". any suggestions would be gratefully received. thanks George.

I have a COPY project that is used in other COBOL projects. In this COPY project, there are lines of code that need to be continued because they exceed 80 characters. For example:05 PIC X(70) VALUE "(xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- "x)".In fact, the Enterprise Developer IDE for Eclipse 11 reports the following errors for this line:- COBCH0026S Literal too long- COBCH1007E VALUE literal size 227 > data item size 70. Literal truncated.And since it's a COPY project, I can't apply compilation directives. In fact, I don't understand why the IDE is trying to compile a COPY. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?Thank you very much.