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Hi! I am currently testing Visual COBOL 11 against my software, and when I run a program that has Database Connectors in them, I get a 9D,25 error on all the SQL tables that are in the program.Copilot tells me that the 9D,25 means the XFD is corrupt, but I re-created the XFDs and I am still getting the error. I re-created the Aculock DB, and made sure that my ACUFH file is pointing to the correct folder, and I have a valid license.  Is there anything else I can look at? 

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I installed the latest Personal Edition of Visual COBOL.I'm trying to create a class that inherits from base and I'm getting the message "Inherited class 'Type base' not found".How do I fix this?

Welcome to Rocket® COBOL Fuel, your monthly source for all things COBOL. In this issue, you’ll learn about the first challenge of modernization and get the latest webinar recording.  Release of the year: Rocket Visual COBOL 11.0 Your COBOL applications hold decades of mission-critical business logic and data. They are not roadblocks. They are strategic assets. With Rocket Visual COBOL 11.0 released this year, you can unlock, modernize, and extend the value of these applications without disruption.Modernize your development Adopt Agile and DevOps practices in COBOL development using industry-standard tools and GenAI assistance. Onboard and train developers faster with AI-driven insights that make even the most complex codebases easier to understand. Modernize your infrastructure Run COBOL anywhere, from commodity platforms to containers, microservices, and the cloud. Version 11.0 introduces ARM support for greater deployment flexibility and cost optimization. It also expands coverage of

Welcome to Rocket® ACUCOBOL® Fuel, your monthly source for all things COBOL. In this issue, you’ll learn about the main ACUCOBOL release of 2025 and the first challenge of modernization.  Release of the year: Rocket ACUCOBOL extend 11As 2025 comes to a close, we’re proud to look back on one of our biggest milestones: the launch of Rocket® ACUCOBOL extend 11, the most significant update in seven years.Thanks to our incredible beta testers and this community, we delivered a thoroughly tested and refined release that empowers you to modernize mission-critical ACUCOBOL applications, enhance user interfaces, and unlock new business value faster than ever.This update brings major improvements across Rocket® AcuToWeb™, Rocket® AcuSQL™, Rocket® Acu4GL®, and Rocket® AcuXDBC™, giving you more flexibility and power to meet today’s business demands.Highlights of Rocket ACUCOBOL extend 11:Visual Studio Code Extension Developers can now work with ACUCOBOL in one of the most popular development tools

Hello,I am using Rocket UNIFACE 10.3. As part of our plan to upgrade the database server, we are considering an OS upgrade from AIX 7.2 to AIX 7.3.Could you please let me know if UNIFACE is planned to support AIX 7.3? If there are any existing validation cases or roadmap information available, I would greatly appreciate it if you could share them.Thank you in advance for your support.

Visma Enterprise, a leading provider of HR and payroll solutions for over 250,000 citizens and 1,500 employers, faced challenges with its COBOL-based application environment, including:Limited release frequency (monthly) Manual CI/CD processes Difficulty sourcing COBOL expertiseTo address these issues, Visma partnered with Rocket Software to modernize its infrastructure by:Replatforming COBOL applications to AWS without rewriting Migrating the database to Microsoft SQL Server Automating CI/CD pipelinesThe modernization project was completed in nine months, delivering significant benefits:50% reduction in infrastructure costs Increased release frequency from monthly to weekly 64% improvement in developer engagementThis case demonstrates how organizations can achieve modernization without disruption, leveraging existing COBOL investments while adopting cloud technologies.Read the full case study, here:https://www.rocketsoftware.com/en-us/case-studies/visma-enterprise 

Hello,We are in the process of automating a series of tasks in VS Code, in the tasks.json we defined a couple of tasks. Most of them are simple tasks, that can be executed by triggering a zowe command.Example : {         "label": "01 Clone ZMF package to local Git Repo",      "type": "shell",      "command": "git",      "args":[        "clone",        "ZMF://${input:zmfSubsys}/${input:zmfPackage}",        "C:/Users/${env:USERNAME}/.zmfGitrepo/${input:zmfPackage}"      ],      "problemMatcher": [],    },or     {         "label": "04 Audit ZMF Package",      "type": "shell",      "command": "zowe",      "args": [        "changemanzmf",        "audit",        "package",        "-p",        "${input:zmfPackage}",        "--zmf-p",        "${input:zmfSubsys}",        "--uv1",        "CAUD"      ],      "problemMatcher": [],    }, Now some of the tasks are more complex, where we need the execution of a REST API followed by data manipulations or multiple REST APIs to be executed to create a z

Visual COBOL 11, COBOL .NET, .NET Core -  using methods.When using namespaces why use:       $set ilusing "System.Collections.Generic"Over right clicking on the project, properties ~Namespaces or visa versa?The $set places it in the code vs properties~Namespaces setting it in the project.I think the $set is more visible personally at a developer level, But properies~Namespaces might be better for Pipelines. (Easier to pick up dependencies)What is the benefit of either method?Neil

I have MF Netexpress 5.1 installed on my laptop runing Win7 Ultimate. I want to move To Win11 with fresh installation not upgrade installation.before doing this I want to keep my Netexpress license,, this requires me to Revoke it, is it possible to get a response key after revoke?the name of the installer executable I have:  nxp3251060079 Bel ShattyIT managerManara Inforamtions Tecgnology

Rocket has an Enterprise Analyzer Certified Professional - L4XX training course. The start of the course has a hands-on lab for installing a demo workspace. Task 2 step 5 is to “Add sources manually”; the screenshot in step 7 shows this being done from C:\EA Sources\BankDemo\sources, but as far as I can tell, this is not installed with Enterprise Analyzer. (There are some demo files it puts in every workspace but not the full demo.So where is someone taking the class supposed to get the demo files?The training videos several time to go to the “attachment tab”. There is no attachment tab in the training site, as far as I can find. Nor anywhere else with downloads.I happen to have a .zip file with what I think you need, but only due to another case I had with Rocket.My question is: Where is someone taking the class supposed to get the demo sources from? Is this something that was lost in the migration from Open Text to Rocket?

I have @1000 VSAM files all of which hold the same data for different product types.  The first part of the name of the file indicates the product type. For example:   Product1 filename is FD0001.PRODUCT.INFO, Product2 filename is FD0002.PRODUCT.INFO.   These files are to be read by a Cobol program that populates the "FDnnnn" part of the filename.  Is there a way to have only one VSAM file definition in the JCL stream and query the JES catalog to get the right file, or some other way to avoid having a DD statement for all 1000 files?------------------------------Bruce CheatwoodBWXTLynchburg VA US------------------------------

I am trying to call the direct ODBC API from a Visual COBOL program using Visual Studio 2022. I want to know if there are any specific configuration changes required in Visual studio 2022 to make ODBC calls work correctly, especially when linking DLLs that are not part of the same solution. Also, if anyone has a small sample COBOL program that demonstrates how to call ODBC APIs directly (for example: SQLConnect, SQLExecDirect, SQLDisconnect), it would be very helpful. Could you please guide me on the correct setup and share any sample code?

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Dear CustomersWe will be releasing the next version of Rocket Open AppDev next week. Expect version currency updates for Less, Nano and more. Vulnerabilities fixes for Git, Curl, Vim and more. Also, new port for confluent-Kafka. More release details to come soon.Did you know: The mainframe market is projected to grow from $5.33B in 2025 to $7.14B by 2030 (6% CAGR), with hybrid cloud and open-source integration as key drivers.

If you need a quick way to prove services will run on time, see the real business impact of schedule changes, and deliver stakeholder-ready reports, spend 15 minutes watching our demoWhat you’ll see:How autonomous workload orchestration ensures business and application services meet SLAs without constant manual intervention. Live dashboards and pre-built reports that translate run status into business impact for executives and operations. What-if planning: simulate schedule changes, see downstream effects on delivery and SLAs, and compare alternative remediation options.Why it matters:Confident decisions: quantify the business impact of changes before approving them. Faster reporting: produce stakeholder-ready views without ad-hoc data pulls. Less firefighting: reduce escalations by catching schedule clashes and SLA risks earlier.In case the video player does not work for your computer or browser, please feel free to watch it here.Have questions? Reply in the discussion thread below. 

If you need a quick way to prove services will run on time, see the real business impact of schedule changes, and deliver stakeholder-ready reports, spend 15 minutes watching our demoWhat you’ll see:How autonomous workload orchestration ensures business and application services meet SLAs without constant manual intervention. Live dashboards and pre-built reports that translate run status into business impact for executives and operations. What-if planning: simulate schedule changes, see downstream effects on delivery and SLAs, and compare alternative remediation options.Why it matters:Confident decisions: quantify the business impact of changes before approving them. Faster reporting: produce stakeholder-ready views without ad-hoc data pulls. Less firefighting: reduce escalations by catching schedule clashes and SLA risks earlier.In case the video player does not work,  watch it here.Have questions or want a tailored walkthrough for your environment? Reply here or DM me and we’ll set i

Hello, it is me again fighting UOPY.  I need to push a big file, and after multiple testing, I found that I could not push a file bigger than 128K. The process hangs there forever. Is this a Unidata limitation or a UOPY limitation? Is there a way to change this limit? Here is my code: def pushFile(dname,fname):   f = open(dname+'/'+fname,'rb')   lines = f.read()   f.close()   print('done reading')   # print(lines)   udfile = uopy.File(dname,session=_session)   udfile.write(fname,lines)   udfile.close()   print("file uploaded") Any help is greatly appreciated.------------------------------Alejandro GarciaSoftware Engineer ManagerF W Davison and Company Inc. DBA PrismHRMA US------------------------------

Hi there.Hope you can help!I am trying to setup the profile so that when the user click clone on a tab it will autologin. I have tried recording a macro and then replaying the macro but this just opens a new window without connecting the terminal or logging in.If I go to script editor and press play it works as intended but I need this to work by right clicking the tab and cloning with an autologin. I am running AccuTerm 8.1 standard. Any help much appreciated!!Thanks

Visual Studio 2022, Visual COBOL 11 Update 1. When migrating old native COBOL code to COBOL .NET which has lots of reference modification code you have to sometimes work out something simple as the length of a string.In OO COBOL you had character arrays and you could get “size” or “sizeinbytes”. Due to my very poor understanding of what a character array was many years ago I got unstuck when using simplified Chinese to do reference modification as getting the “size” means how many simplified Chinese characters are in the array and doing reference modification would truncate the data because I didn’t use “sizeinbytes”.So now moving to COBOL .NET I’d better check the behaviour of this and see how it works.I have a simple C# winform Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("zh-CN");Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("zh-CN");  This is passed into a C# class and and the RunUnit started.The data is then passed from the class into 2 working storage fields, 1

Host Access NewsWe’re inching closer to the end of 2025, and it’s been a busy year in cybersecurity. A new threat has emerged in the form of fake IT workers, with related charges brought against individuals in the United States. At the same time, state-sponsored and AI-powered attacks continue to grow. The need for in-depth defense is more critical than ever. Whether you’re mitigating the risk of the next potential attack or securing systems to comply with the latest regulations, it’s important to know where your blind spots are. New Rocket® Host Access Forum If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the new Rocket® Host Access Forum. We’ve moved all Rocket forums to a new domain to improve usability and functionality, and this is now the new home for our host access communities. You’ll find content across our terminal emulation and host connectivity solutions, including Rocket® Secure Host Access. You can browse product updates and thought leadership topics, ask questions, and connect wit

Hi All,   As part of our ongoing upgrade, we are transitioning the Uniface environment from Uniface 7 (on OpenVMS) to Uniface 10 (on Linux).During this migration, we encountered an issue with a 3GL function that was previously working as expected in the OpenVMS environment. The function is invoked using the following Uniface command:   perform "3glfunction"edit/nowander   This 3GL function is implemented in a .c file located in a Linux directory. Its purpose is to pause the Uniface application until a specified time has elapsed. Once the timer completes, the function uses UPUTAMES to send a response back to Uniface.While this setup worked seamlessly on OpenVMS, it does not function correctly on Linux. The Linux version of the 3GL function uses a timer thread, which is detached after the timer ends. Although UPUTAMES works independently and is capable of sending responses back to the application, it fails to trigger the expected behavior in Uniface-specifically, the form does not displa