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Has the RDi plug-in been tested against RDi 9.9 that was released today?I tried installing it and get this error:Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.Software currently installed: Rocket DevOps for IBM i Team Repository (64-bit) 10.4.0.v202409041507 (com.aldon.team.rdi_64.feature.group 10.4.0.v202409041507)Missing requirement: Rocket DevOps for IBM i in RSE 10.4.0.v202409041507 (com.aldon.RDi75 10.4.0.v202409041507) requires 'osgi.bundle; com.ibm.etools.systems.migration2 0.0.0' but it could not be foundCannot satisfy dependency:From: Rocket DevOps for IBM i Team Repository (64-bit) 10.4.0.v202409041507 (com.aldon.team.rdi_64.feature.group 10.4.0.v202409041507)To: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu; com.aldon.RDi75 [10.4.0.v202409041507,10.4.0.v202409041507] 

I have requested to download Visual COBOL Personal Edition, but I have not received an email or reply to download Visual COBOL Personal Edition. What should I do so that I can download Visual COBOL Personal Edition?

The proper way to start D3 Linux 10.4 is: systemctl start d3svc We have run into instances where someone is starting is using D3_setup start, which starts it in foreground, not as a service. OK for debugging, but the problem is that if that thread disconnects or is killed, the entire VME crashes. This is much like starting D3 Windows from a command prompt using d3vme /debug, then closing the command prompt.  So please use systemctl instead of other methods.

In yesterday's webinar we had questions about our planned future telemetry support.   We envision telemetry providing ETX session statistics to a standard on-premise 3rd-party aggregation system. Please reply if you would find telemetry useful. Would OpenTelemetry work with any telemetry system you already have in place?  Let us know what use cases you see, and security concerns you have.

We are running Enterprise Developer 10.0 that accesses a SQL server database from CICS via an ODBC XA Resource.  We are experiencing long standing schema modification locks (LCK_M SCH_M) in SQL Server coming from the Rocket server through MSDTC.  Currently the only way we know to resolve is to stop/start MSDTC on the database server.  Is there any documentation on configuration options (either the Rocket or SQL servers) that we can review to help resolve these locks?

Greetings,I’m quite new on Exceed and I have a question regarding Exceed.It is used on two identical windows machines with identical Exceed configuration (xconfig) to display Scada UI.Windows PC 1 display large nice Fonts on Scada but windows PC 2 has Font size difference, they appear smaller. I was reading about Fonts might be missing and Exceed can use a failsafe Font in order to display a Scada environment. I this true and what can I do to verify that that fonts are used on both Exceed are the same?In the below pictures are the identical on both Win PC Exceed settings.Awaiting your advise. Kind regards,Panagiotis Galanos

Hi there,when I was trying to update my Uniface 10.4 Community Edition installation I was told to reuse the original eMail received with my entitlementID; clicking on same button latest community version should be downloaded. Restarting the installation the upgrade should recognize the already available product and upgrade it. Last time I made that process was to install 10.4.3.021.Now I would like to update my installation to test new features that came out with latest product patches but clicking on original eMail received still 10.4.3.021 is downloaded.Am I doing something wrong or am I missing something in the procedures?Regards,Gianni

Please be aware the Rocket MV BASIC extension for VS Code (MVVS) release v2.9.0 has a minimum requirement of JDK v17 and not v11 as suggested in the documentation. If the MVVS v2.9.0 environment has a pre-17 JDK, the extension will fail to start with pop up message:"The Rocket MV BASIC Language Server server crashed 5 times in the last 3 minutes. The server will not be restarted. See the output for more information."and"Server initialization failed". We will be releasing an update to documentation and product error handling as soon as possible. 

Hi. Below is the version of our product. Are we allowed to use the Rocket MV Basic in the Visual Studio Code to compile the program?Secondly. i try to enter the following infomartion in MV basic,  what is the account name mentioned below  Current Configuration PRODUCT EDITION VERSION QUANTITY OS TYPE OS VERSION SUPPORT   UV SVR 11.2.5 137 HPUXITANIUM 11.31 Active     SBR SVR 5.5.0 137 HPUX ALL Active     SBC SVR 6.6.3 20 WINDOWS 2022 Active    

I am attempting to pass binary data from AcuCOBOL to a .NET method using a COMSAFEARRAY.  For example, the buffer parameter in the below .NET method:public int addRow(byte[] buffer);I am receiving a COM error when I call this method passing the COMSAFEARRAY.   If I use other data types like “string”, I do not have the error. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to pass data from acuCOBOL as a .NET byte array?

I got a new Windows 11 workstation, and moved my AcuCobol software over and reinstalled it.   It’s been running fine for the past 3 weeks.  But now when I try to compile with ccbl32.exe, I get an error:“D:\Program Files (x86)\Micro Focus\extend 10.4.1\AcuGT\bin\zlib.dll is not designed to run on Windows ….”With the help of Windows COPilot, I tried all sorts of test and security changes, but it still does not work.  Apparently  zlib.dll is on the list of DLLs with known vulnerabilities.Is there updated 10.4.1 that have been properly signed, or do I have to go to Extend 10.5 ? 

Downloads Product availability Matrix (PAM) Downloads of this patch are available from the Rocket Customer Support PortalNew Feature(s) Revised legal notices in the Installer, IDE and Readme files.

Recently went to Window 11 64-bit system on a new computer.I have a program that writes and read Outlook emails, which began giving me errors.I used to executed "C:\Program Files (x86)\Micro Focus\extend 10.4.1\AcuGT\bin\wrun32.exe” which was the 32-bit version.   So i switched to  "C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\extend 10.4.1\AcuGT\bin\wrun32.exe” and the problem went away.   YAAAA.So my software uses the old MSCAL.OCX Calendar control.  Well it turns out it’s a 32-bit program, and WILL NOT EXECUTE using the 64-Bit version.    Anyway interesting to note the both in "C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\...” and C:\Program Files (x86)\Micro Focus\….” the runtimes are named WRUN32.    Shouldn’t the one of them be named WRUN64  ?Any thoughts ?? 

I’m playing around with the vs code plug-in and have noticed some VERY odd behaviors.I’m using version 11.1.0 of the plug-in and version 10.4 of RDOi.When I right click on an item in the subset filter and select Create, it submits the compile job but I get a “davidg8 check job or spooled file failed. (Internal error).” message.  A “Error: (SSH) Channel open failure: open failed” message shows up in the output tab of the console. After that message shows up, the PRTFCREATE spool file is displayed but flickers.  If I close the terminal window, the terminal window reappears with the same spool file.  This happens for a while until it finally stops.  I tried to upload a screen capture, but the forum software won’t let me.

I have a KSDS VSAM file that has been extracted from mainframe and converted to Enterprise Server 10 using the VRECGEN and Classic Data tools utilities.  Currently the Cobol program that reads this file is compiled under “Enterprise COBOL for z/OS”.  When I run the cobol program using a DD statement in the JCL the file opens and retrieves data.I have a need to be able to dynamically supply the file name inside the Cobol program instead of the JCL and have been experimenting with using “ASSIGN TO DYNAMIC” and compiling the program under the “MicroFocus” dialect.  When I try this method to open the file I get a VSAM return code of 39 indicating that the file definition on the server and the definition in the Cobol program don’t match.  Is this related somehow to the VRECGEN process and is there any way to have the DYNAMIC assignment work?Also, my platform is Windows and IDE is Visual Studio.

I’m very pleased to announce the availability of RM/COBOL® 12.21.This latest AMC product release enables our COBOL developers to build, deploy and modernize existing RM/COBOL applications using the latest technologies and operating environments.Key Release Highlights include:Support added for a 64-bit Relativity Designer and Relativity DBA. Support added for a 64-bit Relativity Data Manager on Windows. Relativity Designer enhancement RMNet support for redirectionFor a full list of product updates, please see the product release notes. This latest release of RM/COBOL is now available for order within Sales Force.  Existing on-maintenance customers may also download the latest version from the Rocket Software Customer Community.  RM/COBOL 12.21 provides important maintenance updates for critical COBOL business systems and carries with it our commitment of continued support for RM/COBOL users and their core business applications.If you have any questions about this product release, please

Hi,I am new to this forum, our shop uses Rocket TE Mainframe Display v10.2.1. I have a repetitive task I need to perform it for thousands of entries.I have an excel spreadsheet containing a huge number of accounts. I need to do the below steps for all the accounts in that list. Just wanted to check if there is anyway to automate this in Rocket instead of doing this manually for all entries in the excel sheet. Firstly, I log into a CICS region and launch a transaction ABCD. We do not have VBA supported license I believe, however I can bring that list of accounts into a PS FILE in Mainframes, it is just another session I need to switch using PF21 key. Copy the account from spreadsheet/ PS File in the Mainframe ISPF session. PF21 key to switch to CICS session Hit Enter Enter command COM1 Hit Enter Change I to M Hit Tab Enter the account number from the step 1 hit PF5 key Repeat steps 1 through 5 for all the remaining accounts. If the solution uses the ISPF session, then need to press PF8

There is a bug in the MVS Toolkit (or at least we believe it's the Toolkit) where if you use an OpenSSL version higher than 1.1 to generate a .PKCS12 document, it appears to create just fine, but when you install that in the Toolkit, HTTPS does not work. Rocket is working on this problem, but so far we have not been able to identify what or where the problem is. Meanwhile, I suggest that you use OpenSSL v1.1 or lower to generate your keys, certificate requests and certificates. While we're on the subject, I've worked some cases recently where people generated a private key that was not an RSA private key. It needs to be an RSA private key or the world won't like it. If you have any questions about any of this, or if you want some help with certificate generation (or anything else with the Toolkit for that matter), please open a support ticket and I'll jump on it right away and give you a hand.

The book is by Micro Focus, which is the previous owner of Visual COBOL. It references available materials at their website: http://www.microfocus.com/visualcobolbook. The book itself is copyright 2017 by Micro Focus. Following that link results in a 404 (page not found) error. Is there a current website that contains the materials related to the book?Concerning murach’s mainframe COBOL, the book is copyright 2004, Mike Murach and Associates, Inc. It also makes references to Visual COBOL, but given the copyright date, I can see any links provided in that book as being more outdated than the Visual COBOL book. Is there a current website that contains any materials related to that book?

Where and how do I specify the startup transaction for a CICS region when coming in through a TN3270 terminal emulator?  

I filled out the digital form with my email, as you are supposed to do to get the license to use the product. But I have not received a license code via email yet. I was hoping someone here could help me.