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Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2022 11.0.0 failing install on windows server 2022. Visual studio community edition is installed, version 18.4.3 and “Workload for C++ Desktop Applications “ is installed. Setup fail with error:81f40001 - Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 17.8 or later has not been detected anyone enconter this issue?

Hi There,We are looking for migrating a IBM Mainframe application to cloud and considering conversion to Rocket visual cobol. The application is a batch application consisting Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM, Flat and Tape files. The JCL would need to be converted to shell, VSAM to ISAM, files to Linux standard files and Db2 to Postgres. Can you please share the basic architecture and solution framework for Rocket Visual Cobol migration. Also, what all licenses need to be considered for target side from Rocket perspective.    Regards,Gauri

Is the use and setting of the FCD information different between native COBOL and NET COBOL?My reason for asking is that I have taken the code from our native application straight across into a NET COBOL equivalent and I am finding that setting the address for the file name and key block is not being taken across to our external filehandler correctly.

Hi allIs it possible to save a file (fx .pdf, .docx) in a vision file?Currently I copy the file to the server and creates a record in a vision file with the original file name and server file name. So, when the user need the file, I can copy the server file to the client PC.It would be easier to maintain, if I can save the file in the vision file and extract it when the user needs it,Regards Kim

The PICTURE-01-OBJREF is being used by my 1st image (and it is automatically resizing) using the “ImageCtl” program. The problem is I have 2nd image (JPG/BMP) on the same window, I already change the value of IO-Text-Buffer but it not showing and messing my 1st image.Any sample code that will display an image (BMP/JPG) in the same window when created/showed? 

We would like to open a PDF file in the program and extract an attachment (in this case, an XML file) from this PDF file.Is there a way to do this?

My legacy code generates a lot of long reports targeted at printers that used mono-spaced fonts to get all the column alignments right. Usually this was Courier. I would rather print to PDF as most of these reports are reviewed and disposed of almost immediately. I am moving the system to Windows and have found that I can print to PDF using the built in "Microsoft Print to PDF" driver. The problem is that they print with a proportional font and the columns don't line up and a few characters on a few lines go off the right side of the page. I would guess the font is Arial. Is there a config file that I can edit/create to change this font? I know there are 3rd party tools that bring in a whole slew of additional features, but that would require me to review and edit dozens of reports. Thanks, Brian

In native COBOL we could define a dictionary and that could be set as external which allowed us to access it via our external filehandler. In .NET COBOL it seems it is no longer possible to define a dictionary as external.Can anyone suggest an alternative given that the information that can be passed to an external filehandler is limited and controlled by the run-time?

I was curious if others are running into printing problems with recent Windows 11 updates (at least I suspect that is the cause).  We have had about 5-6 customers report this problem starting 6 weeks ago. When they print from our software running AcuCobol-GT Windows Runtime, they get a pop-up box from saying "please wait for printer connection or cancel connection". Some are reporting it eventually after waiting will move on and print. Others have said they have to click Cancel once or twice to get it to move on. Yesterday, we had one that says sometimes it will not print at all. We are wondering if it has something to do with this new "Windows Protected Print Mode" that is showing up when you look at printers under Windows Settings as this seems to be something new Microsoft is doing. Our main problem with these clients is that all of they claim that it ONLY does this in our software running AcuCobol-GT, and that they can print other things such as emails, websites, out of Office, etc

Hi Everyone,I’m on AcuCOBOL 10.4.1 and I’m trying to use JSON PARSE.  I’m getting an error and while I can get the error code (JSON-CODE) I can’t figure out how to get the additional information in the description that I see in the manual.  For instance, if I get code 100, I’m looking for the full message “JSON PARSE on line <line-num>, JSON text invalid at offset <offset>.” with <line-num> and <offset> filled in so I can actually find the offending part of my input.I couldn't find anything in the documentation or examples that did anything except display JSON-CODE.

Should you use dotnet build or msbuild to compile COBOL assemblies to .NET core 8?For example if I wanted to do a local recompile of my whole applications, I have a PowerShell script that does the compile, but I used “dotnet build”When I went and loaded a project and compiled,  I think I observed after using “dotnet build” then using Visual Studio you get a file tracking log file error, “The tracking data is invalid”  FTK1013.Agreed dotnet build is more lightweight, but are there other consequences?Neil

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

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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

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

Problem: If the RM/COBOL runtime, or, compiler abnormally terminate, then, the use counting mechanism can become corrupt.  This scenario will cause any future instances of the runtime/compiler to fail with a "unauthorized use message (loc 810). Resolution: The full text of the Loc 810 error is : System function error (Loc 810) - Semaphore OK but shared memory marked bad.The "rmucutil" utility will show that there is a shared memory issue. Either reboot or reset the locked "shared memory" to resolve the problem.Below is the syntax for the "rmucutil" utility, located in your RM/COBOL installation directory:rmucutil xx-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxx runtime|compiler detailsThe "rmucutil" utility will show that there is a shared memory issue. If the output shows there is a shared memory or semaphore issue, you can clear shared memory and semaphores manually if the ipcs (for Inter Process Communication Status) commands are available on your operati

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