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Hello,I have three total coop terms in my comp sci program. I finished my first one at a health sciences research institute, secured my second one at the same place, but I think I want to try something different for my last. One of the big five Canadian banks is a major employer of coop students from my school, so I was thinking that if I learned COBOL on my own, it would help me stand out from the pack (I'm not too worried about finding employment, I have plenty of paid programming experience for a student, and my grades are excellent. Just want something that makes me unique). COBOL jobs must be pretty rare, but because the only people who know it are greybeards, and they must all be nearing retirement, it sounds like a lucrative niche to get into.What would a typical dev environment look like for programming in COBOL? My machine runs Linux primarily (Ubuntu-based), but I can boot into Windows if need be.Thanks I didn't find the right solution from the internet. References:ar

Any one here remember an editor written in COBOL called AcuEdit?  Looking for either a compiled version that will run with AcuCobol ver. 6.0 or the source code for it.  We have the compiled version 1.0 which ran using a version 2.4.3 runtime but will not on a version 6.0 runtime and cannot figure out why it keeps throwing an error on startup.  The source code would be a great aid in diagnosing the problem.

From within my native Visual COBOL code, I want to specify the name of a folder (e.g., "c:\\surveys\\finance\\2018") and then populate a working storage table with as many as 500 names of *.xlsx files in that folder.   All the filenames will be 13 characters in length: nnnnnnnn.xlsx 01  SURVEY-FILE-TABLE.       05  SURVEY-FILE   PIC X(13) OCCURS 500. I've been studying available documentation on CBL_DIR_SCAN_START, CBL_DIR_SCAN_READ, and CBL_DIR_SCAN_END -- but it's all Greek to me.  Are those even the routines that I will need?   And are there any examples out there that actually show getting a list of filenames in a given folder? 

Hello,I used to use zeus on my old laptop over a year ago. Now i have a new laptop with windows 10, and I want to download and re-install zeus for my cobol programs, how can I do it?Thanks I didn't find the right solution from the internet. References:www.zeusedit.com/.../viewtopic.php=3&t=7601 Creative animation studio

Is there any chance to use C/S Binding in the Visual Cobol 3.0? There are no such modules as mfclient and mfserver. Thank you for any answer. Petr#VisualCOBOL#CSbinding

Does anyone if Acuxdbc has a tracing capabilities like wrun32 runtime, we area getting an error (As soon as he enters a price and hits enter he gets an error that a null value isn’t allow for that field) and have no idea which field is in question, by the way it works fine in 9.1?#AcuXDBC

I would like to validate if you can help me with an error that is presented to us trying to consult a Micro Focus IDX4 file through Relativity MF, these files are currently managed by File Share, the error occurs when the file is blocked by File Share.   ---------------------------Relativity® Designer---------------------------SQLState: S1000 Msg: [Micro Focus][Relativity][Client][SimbaLNA][Micro Focus][Relativity MF Server][CRDM]File lock violation. NativeErr: -1025 SQLState: S1000 Msg: [Micro Focus][Relativity][SimbaLNA][Micro Focus][Relativity MF Server]Unable to open table: PEAF.---------------------------Aceptar ---------------------------   I appreciate your help in solving this error.

My question is about compatibility of Server express cobol application with OAC new functionality with Oracle Database 12c  Our applications use the Oracle Pro*COBOL precompiler (rtsora) (in conjunction with the cobsql) to access Oracle DB on a remote server OAC is provided by Oracle and  we need to know if it is compatible with our way of doing connexion to Oracle DB ? I am prepared to ask Oracle but first I would like your answer , thanks

Hi, I have been struggling with Visual COBOL installation. I have uninstalled and reinstalled VS and the Micro Focus VS for COBOL several times. I have contacted the support desk and the licensing is fine. I have reached out to my school's discussion group on the problems that other students experienced and tried everything they found to work. I've restarted many times. I don't get error messages. It's just not there. If anyone has any idea of how to help me it would be appreciated. The Micro Focus folder in my start menu shows that the Visual Studio for COBOL isn't there. And COBOL is not a selection in the regular Visual Studio either.  Thanks for the help,   Traci

I have a PC with Windows 10, running Micro Focus Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2010, and running Excel 2010.  I want extract data from Excel workbooks and write it to an Ascii file.  I've got a few questions.  Program would read through a folder full of Excel workbooks, like      18BC2487.xlsx      18BC1924.xlsx      . . . etc.   Each workbook has ten sheets, two of which contain five items that I want to extract.       CEO sheet, which contains              CEO's name in cell B6              CEO's salary in cell B7       Company sheet, which contains               Number of staff in cell C22             &nbsp

When reading the xml tags, when the <ultimos> tag comes in 3 nodes and does not come in the room, the cobol generates a loop that blends the data, bringing data from the first into the 4 register. In this case, the <ultimos> tag did not appear on the last node, and it generates a loop that blends the data.If it comes, the program works normally. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- resp.xml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><empresarialplatinum> <administradores> <administradores_pf> <administrador_pf> <consultas> <resumo> <qtd_total>2</qtd_total> <data_ultima>09022018</data_ultima> </resumo> <totais> <consulta>2</consulta> <credito>0</credito> <cheque>0</cheque> </totais> <consulta_mes_vigente> <data>08022018</data> <quantidade

Why Micro Focus don´t   answer  questions about NET EXPRESS / SERVER EXPRESS ...????

New Problems with Microsoft. After installing MS Office 365 Pro, the runtime can no longer be started. The error message is "License file wrun32.dll inaccessible".Does anyone know this problem?

Compiling a .PCO file using procobol/cblsql using the following command line in windows cobol test.pco noobj int(%INTPATH%) COBIDY(%IDYPATH%) LISTPATH(%LISTPATH%) inticall(oracle11) P(COBSQL) cobsqltype==Oracle NOMAKESYN end-c MODE=ANSI PICX=CHARF P(CP) SY ENDP test.lis has PCB-S-00400 error at End Program statements of cblproto.cpy program Any idea why this error is cropping up in cblproto.cpy in test.lis file? Note: test.pco has cblproto.cpy in a copy statement before the start of IDENTIFICATION DIVISION

As a user, rather than just always asking questions, I thought it would be nice to give back to the Community for a change. Reference Modification - In a Managed COBOL program, you can use either the traditional "one-based" reference modification (using parentheses) that you can also use with Native COBOL, -OR- you can use zero-based reference modification (using brackets).  This is touched on in "Visual COBOL - A Developer's Guide To Modern COBOL", a book from Micro Focus (see pages 336 - 337). In Visual Studio, create a new COBOL project - Managed Console Application and paste the following code into it.  This is a quick and dirty example and was not intended to be elegant or efficient.  Rather, it was meant to show how reference modification can be used and to provide something that you can easily experiment with.        program-id. Program1 as "TestRefMod1.Program1".        data division. 

Salve, come da titolo ho condiviso in rete cartella c tra due computer per eseguire il programma runcbl su windowx xp pro ma quando cerco di farlo partire sull' altro pc non si avvia.... come potrei risolvere la situazione?

bandicam-2018_2D00_02_2D00_12-08_2D00_48_2D00_28_2D00_183.mp4  Okay so this might be a little difficult to explain.  Basically we have a cobol screen that has a .net assembly embedded in the screen section. When one of the assemblies functions is activated(which displays another form overlayed on the screen, not another window) the cobol window that had focus loses it's focus, and focus is transferred to last active windows screen that WASN'T controlled by the acucobol runtime(i.e. file explorer). This behavior does not happen when the .net assembly is embedded on a standard windows form outside of the acucobol runtime(i.e. as a simple executable). We tried switching the .net assembly to run as a stand alone windows form rather than being embedded, but we have a situation where we do not want users to be able to "touch" screens 2 and 3(numbers being screen depth) and the assembly is screen 4.  When the assembly is run, all screens are able to be "touched" whereas before

Good evening, For the last couple of months, several of my customers have been complaining about a steady increase in the number of file errors they are receiving while using my software.  Most of them have not had an update of my software, so nothing changed from my perspective.  The most commonly reported are File Busy (on personal temp files, so shouldn't ever happen) and Disk Space Exhausted despite small file sizes (like 10kb) and no where near disk capacity.  The ones who have reported this are running a mix of Windows 7 and 10 with AcuCobol ver 7.2 or 10.0 (I don't believe this is happening for my 10.1 user. They have tried: rebooting, disk defragmentation, and rebuilding their Windows profiles; all to no avail. Anyone else experience this or know if it's tied to a Windows update not playing nice? Thanks for any input, customers are losing patience.  I apologize for any omissions of data, please just ask and I'll be happy to provide the inform

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Hello, I have a program with SQL which is compiled to Java bytecode. When I add the additional directives "p(cobsql) csqlt==oracle endp" in Project Properties > Micro Focus > Build Configuration, I get the error:     * CSQL-F-048: Cobsql is not supported for use with managed code. Instead of p(cobsql)... I added the directive SQL(PROCOB). Then I get the error:     COBES0121S SQL(PROCOB) is only valid with SQL(DBMAN=ADO) After adding this directive, the following error occurs:   COBCH1572S ILREF directive has invalid type name 'MicroFocus.COBOL.SqlCLR.RunTime.dll' which is not documentated. According to the documentation this only works with .NET (http://documentation.microfocus.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.microfocus.eclipse.infocenter.visualcobol.vs2015/GUID-3492935C-7CBE-4055-A831-B2892E9EB056.html&cp=5_5_2_2_0_9_0_2_51). Is it even possible to compile programs with Oracle SQL in Java byte code?   Best regards Paul

I have downloaded Visual Cobol for Visual studio 2017, and all the files have been properly installed. However, when creating a new project in visual studio 2017, no COBOL options are available. When trying to open COBOL samples included in the Visual COBOL downloads, Visual studio states it is not compatible. The same occurs when trying to open any COBOL Project. To clarify, the Visual Cobol files downloaded properly. Visual studio cannot link with these files.

Anyone know why I would get this error?  The Slice utility gives the error but not the compiler.  It's as if the compiler found the WS file but the slice utility didn't.   k123.err = Error cobtoxml K123-WS   F:\\BIS\\KEVIN\\DB\\SRC>ECHO OFF Could Not Find F:\\BIS\\KEVIN\\DB\\SRC\\k123.err RM/COBOL Compiler - Version 12.13 for 32-Bit Windows. RM/COBOL Development System issued to AMI Inc. Configured for 5 users. AMI Inc. Copyright (c) 1985-2016 Micro Focus.  All rights reserved. Configured options:  O=..\\bin\\ L=..\\bin\\ Y=3 Registration number:   Total generated object size:      95022 (X"0001732E") bytes   Errors: 0, Warnings: 0, Lines: 208 for program K123XML.   Compilation complete -- Programs: 1, Errors: 0, Warnings: 0.   RM/COBOL Compiler - Version 12.13 for 32-Bit Windows. RM/COBOL Development System issued to AMI Inc. Configured for 5 users. AMI Inc. Copyright (c) 1985-2016 Micro Focus.

A version of the EJB Demo with project files updated for Java 8 and JBoss EAP 6.4 (JBoss 7.5). Visual COBOL 3.0 and Visual COBOL 4.0   EJBDemo.zip

We code our programs in Acubench 8.1.3 and runtime is 8.0 on a virtual machine. The program is compiled with -Ga (and I have even tried -Gd). When debugging the program, I have it set to break when the value of a variable changes, however the debugger does not stop. From time to time, we load different sets of data onto the vm's for testing purposes, and sometimes the debugger will work correctly and stop when the variable changes value. This leads me to believe that there is a file or something that controls whether the debugger will actually stop when the value changes. Does anyone know where to find this or how we can make sure the debugger will stop when the variable changes (when it is set to do so)? Thank you, Melissa#acubench#AcuCobol

I am receiving Error 26 from Visual COBOL and would like assistance in fixing this. I had changed the date on my PC to test out a function in a program i had written and now i am unable to progress any further. PLEASE HELP.#error[26]