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BackgroundCurrently, I have added and enabled a VSAM External Security Manager (ESM) to my Rocket Enterprise Server. I added the VSAM ESM to the security managers list at the ES Administration and Directory Server security domain levels. I can sign on using the users I manage at the ES Administration level through the VSAM ESM’s verification and authentication. The IssueAlthough I have added the same VSAM ESM I’m using at the ES Administration and Directory Server security domains to the region’s security facility configuration, I cannot start the region using any of the default users provided in the default VSAM ESM. In the region, I navigated to [General → Verify]. On the Verify page, I clicked the [Run] button and got some more insight. It seems it is successfully loading the ESM configuration “VSAM ESM”, but it has failed to initialize the SAF manager due to reason 16. The error message states, “Safmgr initialization failed, reason = 16”. I can’t start the region using the VSAM ESM

Running Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition and Visual Cobol Personal Edition. Fired up Visual Studio and tried to open one of my solutions. Received  the attached errors. All the programs in Solution Explorer were marked ‘Incompatible’.  I’m unsure as to whether this means my license has expired or whether it is a different problem.Please see attached.TIA

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        

Windows Server 2008 R2 StandardService Pack 1LicensesNo limit, local hostedCobol Server (Production)the license server runs, and the runtime refers to that server for the license. Can i revoke the license on the llicense server, then revoke the production server license, and reinstall with the same number on the runtime server, except not referring to the license server, but local? Local is how our staging runtime server is set up. Just want to put that out there, in case there are other issues.

Hi all, For an analysis I’m exploring the ESCWA portal. I got it set up using the Visual Cobol installation.It comes with a trial key. All looks great. I can program COBOl and run the applications. Greate.But then, when I try to create a region in the dashboard, I’m prompted that “I have no valid license”.When I check the license manager that came with the installation, it shows I have 500 more days left.So the “portal” doesn’t consider this license.I then thought “perhaps I need to get a trial license for the server seperate”, but it’s impossible to find. Support also isn’t being helpful.I could find this link to “request a trial version” but it’s not working properly, hence I don’t know they receive 30 requests by now or it never went through: http://cabs.microfocus.com/products/enterprise-suite/enterprise-server/trial in the portals and confsing different dashboards, i could find something like “download trials”  but it never shows the enterpreise server. Is there any way to set up

A recent client asked how we produce different type documents within in the Universe/Unidata database. There is no Rocket Software product that does that I am aware of. Using a Eclipse open-source product called BIRT with a Universe/Unidata ODA interface you can produce all of those types and more. So, am I right about no Rocket Software product that creates reports in different formats?

I can’t remember the initiation command to use instead of “uv” to enable multiple concurrent sessions.  Can someone help me?Thanks, Dale

Hi,When the source file (CBL) and any ancillary copybooks have been saved with an encoding of UTF-8 BOM then I am getting some strange behaviour with characters such as high-values when moving a PIC X group into a string and then moving it back out into a PIC X group.My question is whether there a compiler option or some other mechanism whereby the source files are automatically converted to ASCII or UTF-8 at the time of building the dll?Thanks

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

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?

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.  

Hello Team,Currently we have Enterprise developer already available in the system , I am trying to integrate VS Code using Rocket COBOL extension to do a BRD documentation using the Co-pilot features. We have two copybooks extension ,one with CPY and another COPYCOB. The intelisense is  able to identify the CPY copybooks but not the COPYCOB eventhough the extensions are mapped. Is there possibility to re-use the XML files of MFED for the integration of VS code.ThanksSanoop

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?