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Hi everyone! Is there a version of OpenQM for personal use or study purposes? If so, where can I download it?

Universe 11.3.1,  AIX 7200-05-11-2546We noticed when comparing very large numbers they don’t correctly evaluate to not equal. Specifically, if two variables are over 17 characters in length and they don’t match correctly. See the below sample program and its output. The (X NE Y) does not evaluate to true until the length of the strings are 17 characters even though the variables are never equal. Does anyone know what is causing this to happen?  X = '0587634906513946593645'Y = '0587634906513946593646' FOR Z = 1 TO 8  CRT X, Y, (X NE Y),LEN(X)  STRLN = LEN(X)  X = RIGHT(X,STRLN-1)  Y = RIGHT(Y,STRLN-1)NEXT ZOutput:0587634906513946593645        0587634906513946593646        0         22        587634906513946593645         587634906513946593646         0         21        87634906513946593645          87634906513946593646          0         20        7634906513946593645 7634906513946593646 0         19                            634906513946593645  634906513946593646  0         18        

We have a number of tables in Microsoft SQL that are defined as uniqueidentifier. When accessing this column type the OpenESQL interface, using ODBC, returned this column type as a char(36).Modifying our native code to .NET and using ADO it appears that this column type is returned as a 16 character binary column type.My question is whether you are aware of this and whether there are other column data types that behave differently when using ADO as opposed to ODBC? Peter

Where may I now download Vertica drivers, licenses and install files?

Our IT services have employed a company to test vulnerabilities. They are reporting an out of date Oracle Java version on our machine, which is patched to patch 10.4.3.042What do people know about updating the Java version independently? Is it ‘safe’ to do so? Or will bits of the uniface environment stop working?  Where is the installation folder to overwrite, or is that automatic?  (afterthought) WHat happens when we patch uniface, does it reset, or is it smart enough to not update a later version? Regards, Iain

Hi all? I installed the latest Patch  (044) in my development.After transfering a form to test, I get an error .[] User action failed to complete. Unexpected exception. [error=-100003] Repository data found, of which the K-version is too high. The form is imported but I can’t open the IDE in test and prod any more :  

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

Hi all,I am trying to trace down an annoying issue related to opening files in Uniface Runtime but unfortunately I am not able to identify an origin and a solution.Here it is the scenario:    - A centralized server (Windows 2019 Datacenter) sharing a disk    - All users (normally 120 but up to 150 concurrent) refers to this server to startup a Uniface application in C/S mode    - Log is activated for all sessions ($ioprint = 1)The system is up’n running 24x7 and issues I am going to list are happening mainly from 8:00 to 20:00 when most users are at work but there are cases also outside this timeframe like in the evening (20:00 to 24:00)  and also in the middle of the night (00:00 to 06:00).Issues:    - 20% (extimated) = daily Uniface sessions terminating without any signal or message or other… nothing!    - 79% = Session unable to write log file on shared disk (message:    ULOG Error: Failed to write to .\log\[NETWORK_NODE_NAME]_[PROCESS_PID].log) in this case a UNIxxxxx.log file is c

ZMF Explorer no longer available in the marketplace? What should we communicate to our developers?

Yesterday we upgraded to ChangeMan ZMF 8.3.2 and today we get this error when we check in a component from VS Code:  Content error: Record Length(493) exceeds Maximum(80)I checked to make sure I have the correct zmfrest war file.

Within a "Mainframe COBOL Project," I'm trying to generate a Java client for a COBOL program. To do this, I'm using the context menu option on the COBOL program: New -> Java Interface. This has created the "Java Interfaces" path within the project, and inside that path, a file with the .xml extension containing the mapping between the Java attributes and the COBOL Linkage structure.So far, so good, but when I run the "Generate Client" option from the context menu of the .xml file, the following error message appears: "Please Set Up Java EE classpath in the properties dialog." I've been investigating, and it seems the problem is that it can't find the mfccl.jar Java library, but I don't know where I need to declare it to avoid the error and generate the Java client.Thanks.

Is anyone using Python within UniVerse to format data (.xlsx) that will be used as an email attachment?

VS code updated to latest version and zmf explorer profiles disappears.vs code version 1.124.2 ZMF explorer 2.0.10I tried deleting zowe.config.json, zowe.schema.json, and extenders.json.   Restored backup of zowe.config.json and zowe.schema.json.I uninstalled zmf explorer and re-installed it.    I installed a previous version of visual studio code. Unfortunately, VS code auto updated.None of these corrected the issue.  

My company intends to increase the security of clients by using Microsoft App Control.This basically means that any executable not located in %programfiles...% must be digitally signed with our company key.Now signing the executables is  a bit of a hassle but generally not really a problem. But for ETX, two security mechanisms come in to conflict. The ETX launcher checks the hash value of the main (Native Client) executable but if the executable is signed by us the hash value changes. So: sign the main executable -> The ETX Launcher won't start it.Don't sign the main executable: Microsoft App Control prevent execution.Oops!Has anybody found a solution for this problem?

I have updated the file associations in the ibm open editor extension.   We have two custom  types which mapping incorrectly on the local folders.J01 becomes a suffix of JAVAP01 becomes a suffix of TXTHow can I correct this file mapping/associations?  

If I’m attempting to launch the mobius document direct 4.4 for windows(DDW) client or administrative tools directly on the server to view or download reports through windows task scheduler, will I need a interactive desktop session ?

When using MV BASIC in Online mode I have not been able to open multiple programs into separate tabs.This is a reasonably basic capability to have to support coder productivity.Is it meant to be possible?If so, is there a setting which controls it?

I am trying to code Cobol programs, compile and execute. I need help on what I need to download to accomplish this. I  have worked on IBM mainframes using Cobol, jcl, ISPF, TSO, etc many years ago. I want to restart now. Please advice on what I need to do to get started. Thanks.

My application jobs runs and Enterprise server and the logs are in ESCWA, i wanted to retrieve the log information from ESCWA via API. Does ESCWA provides API with all the logs details of a JOB which can be then used my process to use them in analysis.

 I have encountered an issue while working with a component in my cloned package in VS Code. I recently made some changes to this component, and my colleague made other changes to the same component. As a result, I ran into a merge conflict when attempting to push my updates.After carefully resolving the merge conflict and committing the changes, I tried to push back to the mainframe. However, I received an error, and I am not sure where the problem lies. I have double checked to ensure there are no non-mainframe compatible characters in both the merged source and my commit message.Could someone please advise if there is something I am missing in the process, or if there could potentially be a bug in the git connector? Any guidance or troubleshooting tips would be greatly appreciated as I would like to get this resolved as soon as possible. 

We are validating our software package will run on UV version 14.2.1 and noticed the TCL UNLOCK command has been changed since version 11.3.1. UNLOCK ALL is no longer valid and the command will not unlock some record locks. For example: UNLOCK PID 9312 FILE D:\IBM\ACCOUNTS\BRIDGETON\SFH.CONTROL RECORD SFH@BRIDGETON Does not release the lock: 06 LIST.READU DETAILSActive Locks:Device.... Inode.... FileName. UsrNo Pid.... LoginId ItemId... M LockTime.......1680857659 562949953428398 D:\IBM\ACCOUNTS\DDICLOUD\SFH.CONTROL -26 7636 ddiadmin SFH.CLEANUP@DDICLOUD X Wed Jun 17 23:18:54 20261680857659 562949953433153 D:\IBM\ACCOUNTS\BRIDGETON\SFH.CONTROL -24 9312 ddiadmin SFH@BRIDGETON X Thu Jun 18 14:14:34 2026 Any insights on:How to release all locks? Why the SFH@BRIDGETON lock is not released? Any other UNLOCK gotchas in version 14.2.1 v 11.3.1?Thanks in advance.

I have a relational database with a one-to-many table. When reading it in COBOL, I believe it's necessary to read the record key from the main table and the related records from the secondary table; I believe a read should be performed from the main table record key, and the related records from the secondary table would be stored in an "occurs" of that record.The  code  FD :  FD ARCHIVO-NUEVO.01 REG-NUEVO-FISICO.05 Fis-RecNumber PIC 9(6).05 Fis-Nombre PIC X(30).05 Fis-Tabla-Pagos.10 Fis-Nuevo PIC 9(8) OCCURS 100 TIMES. Is correct???Thanks

Hi everyone,I downloaded Visual COBOL for Eclipse Personal Edition Ubuntu 11.0.zip, but I am unable to complete the installation because of a license issue.The bundled license XML file appears to contain the following License Group:Visual COBOL for Eclipse Personal Edition_Windows-RPv1Since this is the Ubuntu/Linux download, I expected the license file to be for Ubuntu or Linux, not Windows.Has anyone else seen this issue with the Ubuntu 11.0 Personal Edition download?Is this Windows-RPv1 license XML actually valid for Ubuntu/Linux, or is the wrong license file included in the download package?If this is not the correct file, how can I obtain the correct Ubuntu/Linux Personal Edition license XML?Thanks.

Hello,I am using the MVSP utility from D3 version 9.2. This is the second time that I have encountered a new error message. What could be causing this? Could it be related to the VME workspace? It is currently at 55%. Could it be linked to the server memory, which did not appear to be saturated?After this message appeared, the D3 database stopped responding, and it was no longer possible to connect via Telnet.Message received from the TIGR.MVSP program:System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): An operation on a socket could not be performed because the system did not have enough buffer space or because the queue was full 127.0.0.1:9000 at System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient..ctor(String hostname, Int32 port) at TIGR.MVSP.Pick.ConnectCore(String hostName, Int32 hostPort, String userName, String userPassword, Boolean sslConnect, Boolean licEnterprise)Have other D3 users encountered this type of issue? Any information that could help guide me toward resolving this problem would be appreci

Hi There,My application source code is using IKJEFT01 utility to execute PL/I DB2 program using below syntax: //DB201    EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=50,//  PARM=('%DBDB20 RUN,DB2(&DB2SYS)PG(&PROGRAM)PL(&PLAN)',//        'RTR(&RETRY)PRM(&PARMSTR)LNG(&LANG)RC(&RC)')//SYSTSIN  DD  DUMMYI have added below to the legacy.xml in <BatchProg> but it is not recognizing the relationship.      <item> IKJEFT01,PARM,2,PG(%P) </item>