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Visual Studio 2022 is now supported beginning with Visual COBOL V8.0. Visual COBOL 8.0, additionally supports Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019.#VisualCOBOL8.0#VisualCOBOL#VisualStudio2022#IDE#VisualStudio#VisualCOBOL#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Has anyone out there successfully integrated a credit card mag stripe reader with D3? Looking for something that you swipe a credit card and the information is captured using a BASIC INPUT statement as if the information had been typed on the keyboard. I see a few USB mag stripe readers out there on Amazon, but can't tell if they emulate keyboard input. If you're using one that works, please let me know the make, model, and source.------------------------------Brian S. CramPrincipal Technical Support EngineerRocket Software------------------------------

Hi  compiling cobol + sql program on unix with SQL(DBMAN=ODBC)  on ORACLE database give error ORA-00904: "C": invalid identifierif I use 'C' its work, I must change all quote in apost?  I cannot stay with double quotes in cbl progmram? EXEC SQL DECLARE CURSOR1 CURSOR FOR..... AND (A_COLL = "K" OR A_COLL = "C")    .... END-EXEC. thanks  bye #EnterpriseDeveloper#SQL#esql

Hi, Looking for some documentation on how an user can submit a job using a web console to Enterprise server.#EnterpriseServer

We are doing migration from Z/OS mainframe to microfocus. We have 374 reports generated using batch QMF utility DSQQMFE. Not finding anything like DSQQMFE. So, pls suggest whether DSQQMFE can be supported by microfocus or not. In case , if microfocus does not support it what would be alternative where minimal effort will be required.#EnterpriseDeveloper

Hello, is there a shortcut to comment several lines at once? and is there ashortcut to duplicate a line of code?Cordially,LERICHE Michael.

The compile suddenly brings strange errors. First compile brings:  * File i-o error: program.idy then the 2nd compile brings: program.OBJ : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __mFerr3 Does anyone have an idea? Regrds, Georg

I have been asked a couple of times as to where to find files that are created by the ZMF Explorer.  This is a standard VSCode extension and as such all files are under VSCode control and located in VSCode managed folders. A key file is settings.json - this is edited directing with VSCode when you go into Settings - Extension - then select the extension in question and is shared by all installed extensions.   However, if you need to find the file for some other reason, it can be found in your <homedir>. On Windows this would be  <homedir>/AppData/Roaming/Code/user/settings.json If you experience a problem when running the ZMF Explorer, you may be asked to turn DEBUG logging on. This is done again via Settings- Extension- ZMF Explorer and scroll down to the logging option.  Logging should generally be left on the default of INFO when not specifically asked to turn on debug due to the amount of debug data logged.    The first thing to do is

The Visual COBOL 8.0 release provides the following enhancement: You can create, build and run COBOL projects targeting .NET 6 in Visual Studio 2022. In all other supported environments, you can use the .NET 6 SDK or Visual Studio code to build .NET 6 COBOL projects. Support for .NET Core 3.1 has been discontinued. #VisualStudio2022#VisualCOBOL#.NETCore#NewRelease-Feature#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#VisualCOBOL8.0#VisualStudio#.net6#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

I am trying to install microfocus visual cobol version 7. on New Dell Laptop. when executing the installer program opens and closes without any error. I was able to produce a log report, Here is the log it produced: [0AF4:3B6C][2022-08-04T20:48:40]i001: Burn v3.14.0.1703, Windows v10.0 (Build 22000: Service Pack 0), path: C:\\Users\\miren\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\{CADDB339-6BA8-4FAE-A450-6647ADA0198B}\\.cr\\vcvs2019_70.exe[0AF4:3B6C][2022-08-04T20:48:40]i000: Initializing string variable 'ProductRevision' to value '7.0.00248'[0AF4:3B6C][2022-08-04T20:48:40]i000: Initializing string variable 'InstallFolder' to value '[ProgramFilesFolder]Micro Focus\\Visual COBOL'[0AF4:3B6C][2022-08-04T20:48:40]i000: Initializing numeric variable 'RumbaCheckbox' to value '0'[0AF4:3B6C][2022-08-04T20:48:40]i000: Initializing string variable 'RumbaCheckboxState' to value 'disable'[0AF4:3B6C][2022-08-04T20:48:40]i000: Initializing string variable 'RumbaLabelState' to value 'disable'[0AF4:3B6C][2022-08-04T20

Status: DeliveredWe are receiving 'SER1005E CMN Invalid TCP/IP protocol header received:' and 'SER8104E CMN Unidentifiable message received, header is' errors in our Changeman started task due to port scans. However, after discussed with Micro Focus we learned that these messages will not cause any problems and those are working as designed. Since, these messages are not causing any problems, is it possible for an enhancement to represent these messages as ‘Warning’ instead of ‘Error’?#Notification

Hello community, I am facing this problem and hope anybody could help me. My site is running Unidata over Windows Server and MVIS to provide webservices.The problem is when the webservice receive extended characters, for example: á,é,ñ,Ñ and so on, the webservice subroutine uses UDO object to get the data from JSON parameter and write it to the file, but in this case of special characters, the data saved is completely different with other characters. And it is worse when that same data is pulled out by other webservices. All third-party providers that my site interact with indicate that the application cannot handle UTF-8 encoding properly.I will appreciate any help you could provide me.Thanks.

Hi, Do you know where I can have detail about a U2ConnectionException ? Error I get from sbxa when trying to connect ? Many thanks for any help. Manu ()[SBXA.SBPlusAppServer.dll,SbPlusRuntimeService.SbAppConnect(0)] }{Failed to open connection to luluvpdb2541/E:\\INTEGRIX\\UVDB\\START using LU\\kmaus:SBXA.AppServer.U2OpenConnectionException:[193AG]-12    at SBXA.AppServer.U2Connection.OpenConnection()------------------------------manu fernandes------------------------------

ZMF Explorer V2.0.2 is now available on the VSCode Marketplace. Following on from ZMF Explorer V2.0.1, this version adds further support for tracking batch jobs arising from Recompile from Baseline requests. See the details supplied in the ZMF 2.0.1 announcement regarding the need for z/OSMF to be configured on the LPAR where ChangeMan ZMF is running and a z/OSMF profile has been configured in the zowe.config.user file.   (3) ZMF Explorer V2.0.1 is now available - ChangeMan ZMF Tips & Information - ChangeMan ZMF (microfocus.com) In addition, this release also provides  the ability to create  a profile by right clicking on the "Packages" indent in the tree structure.  - 2 types of Package are catered for:         - Simple ALL site Package         - Simple D / DP site Package To make use of this feature, you can set default parameters in settings.json by clicking on the ZMF Extension in VSCode  and editing the

Hi, While compiling a Native COBOL file i am getting following error. Using Visual Studio 2019 and MF COBOL 7.0 1>COBOL : Object Code error : file 'odbcecm'1>COBOL : error code: 153, pc=0, call=1, seg=01> 153 Subscript out of range (in d:\\Packages\\pkg_300025\\bln_748\\ESQL\\oecm\\odbcecm\\src\\oecmexc.cbl, line 2450)1> Regards Renu#subscriptoutofrange#153

Is any one running ChangeMan ZMF v8r2p02 on zOS 2.5? We are working to upgrade to ZMF v8r2p06 but they want to upgrade the zOS before our scheduled upgrade. Any issue found running ZMF v8r2P02 on zOS 2.5? #ChangeManZMF

* CSQL-I-018: Invoking Oracle Precompiler/Translator [cobol] [cobol] 86 [cobol] System default option values taken from: C:\\app\\va27\\product\\11.2.0\\client_1\\precomp\\admin\\pcbcfg.cfg [cobol] [cobol] Error at line 86, column 7 in file C:\\VisualCobolWorkspace\\source_project\\GIFPWD [cobol] 98.pco [cobol] [cobol] ......1 [cobol] PCB-S-00106, Unable to open INCLUDE file "COPYCOM1"

Problem: How to create files that use UTF-8 or Unicode (UTF-16) character encodings? The strings are initially ANSI based so need to be converted to UTF-8 and UTF-16. Resolution: Attached is an example that shows how you can do this. Converting to Unicode uses standard COBOL syntax for dealing with Unicode strings. UTF-8 is slightly more complex. The Windows API that performs the conversion to UTF-8 is "WideCharToMultiByte". This however requires a Unicode input string to perform the conversion on. A 2 stage conversion approach is required to first convert to Unicode and then to UTF-8 using "WideCharToMultiByte". Attachments: utf8.zip Old KB# 1309

Hi all,I missed the webinar - playing it now.However, I think there was also a question/answer page somewherefor questions that couldn't be answered during the webinar dueto time constraints....Could someone pls share that link with me??Regards,Knut------------------------------Knut Dybendahl------------------------------

Note from Administrator: please post your questions in the Uniface User Forum. The Rocket Uniface Support Resources sub-forum is intended for posts from the Rocket Uniface product and support teams.Hi all,I missed the webinar - playing it now.However, I think there was also a question/answer page somewherefor questions that couldn't be answered during the webinar dueto time constraints....Could someone pls share that link with me??Regards,Knut------------------------------Knut Dybendahl------------------------------Duplicate post: Q&A from webinar

An error below occurs in VB8.5 and clustering cannot be performed: <br>org.omg.CORBA.COMM_FAILURE:java.io.IOException: Peer disconnected socket vmcid: 0x0 minor code: 0 completed: No Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007208#VisiBroker#Education-Training

How can the "dbfhadmin" password be passed from a "vault" to be used in an environment variable, if is contains special characters. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000008894#EnterpriseDeveloper#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Customer upgraded from ZMF 8.2 Patch 3 to 8.2 Patch 6 and is now seeing the following messages in the ZMF task. Note: the messages are not always for the same 'tsoid' :SER8005E tsoid SEROSTRM change direction failed with receive rc=00000008What do they mean? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000009325#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF

For product releases and updates released in June or July 2022, some older versions of Windows may report that signatures contained in executable files (.EXE, .DLL, .MSI, etc.) cannot be verified. This is due to an issue with how these older Windows versions process a cross-signed root certificate issued by DigiCert. See the full article on the resolution. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000009305#EnterpriseDeveloper#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

When doing batch freeze in ZMF4ECL 8.2 Patch 6 and selecting 'Show user variables' the 'NEXT' button is not enabled. The User Variable panel is therefore never displayed resulting in the user variables not being set properly (via HLLX) in the submitted JCL. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000009266#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF