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Hi all,   i want to read with cobol for eclipse a file folder and i'll write all of this files (they are copy books files) from this file folder in a file.i need help.   your sincerely alashara

 Hello, Im new to cobol. I have some question, does Cobol support animation such as gauge meter? Is there any way to implement gauge meter into cobol other than using ActiveX Control?  #ActiveX#animation#COBOL

Hello Everyone! I want to know if it's possible migrate or re-install NetExpress 4.0 in Windows Server 2008 (or 2012 preferably). So far I know our license only applies to 4.0 version, besides all the current developments are related to it.  Thanks for your collaboration, sorry for my English I'm not a native speaker.#Server2008#server2012#NetExpress40#64bit

Hi, Can anyone assist with changing below C# into Visual Cobol?  subItems = new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem[] {new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem(item, "Directory"),new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem(item, dir.LastAccessTime.ToShortDateString())}; This is in the code block:-   *> TreeNode newSelected = e.Node; declare newSelected as type System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode = e::Node *>listView1.Items.Clear(); invoke listView1::Items::Clear *>DirectoryInfo nodeDirInfo = (DirectoryInfo)newSelected.Tag; declare nodeDirInfo as type System.IO.DirectoryInfo = newSelected::Tag as type System.IO.DirectoryInfo *>ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem[] subItems; declare subItems as type System.Windows.Forms.ListViewItem ListViewSubItem[] *>ListViewItem item = null; declare item as type System.Windows.Forms.ListViewItem = null * foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in nodeDirInfo.GetDirectories()) * { * item = new ListViewItem(dir.Name, 0); * subItems = new ListViewItem.ListViewS

Hallo, I installed Visual Cobol 3 with Devhub on a Redhat System 7.4 which runs on Virtualbox. Connecting from Eclipse to the remote system and creating a Cobol program is no problem. Also compiling it on Redhat works fine. However the remote built does not work. As I am a beginner with Devhub I probably missed one step. "Connection to 192.168.178.49 could not be established." is the main message from my understandig (see entire message below). However I have access to the remote system. I hope this is not a big for the community and someone knows what I did wrong. Thanks in advance Franz   Below  the error message is shown:   Errors occurred during the build.Errors running builder 'Remote COBOL Builder' on project 'CobolProgram1'.Could not connect to remote hostConnection to 192.168.178.49 could not be established.Launch command output:Last login: Wed Jan 10 23:26:31 2018 from 192.168.178.23sh -c "/opt/microfocus/VisualCOBOL/remotedev

I am working on an assignment where we need to convert AS400 CL to JCl (which will be executing on MicroFocus enterprise server or microfocus cobol executing engine). Do we have AS400 CL equivalent commands for JCL or Shell Script or COBOL.

Hi all, I am experiencing the following problem : I downloaded and installed Visual Cobol PE for Visual Studio 2017, but I can't activate it.When I select "I want to activate the free product" with my e-mail address (xrousaios@yahoo.gr), I am receiving the following message :"The activation of Micro Focus Visual Cobol personal edition failed. This was because we didn't recognize the email address you endered as having been previously registered with us.". But, when I am visiting the registration page, I couldn't see or find any registration procedure. So, I used the MANUAL activation process, using the "Send Email/Display Fields" sequence and, I sent an email according to the instructions.However, the answer I received was the following :   "The following error occurred during the authorization processMG0106: Unable to authorize the request." I tried it again later, but nothing happened.  Well, I don't know what excactly can I do to solve this issue.  Any help wll b

Is anyone using Redemption and AcuCOBOL to send email to an Outlook contact group?  So far I've not been able to make it work.  

Hello to everyone and happy new year, with health and blessings! As I have Windows XP as Operation System, I installed the personal (free) edition of Visual Cobol 2010 (only Visual Studio 2010 can work on Windows XP, not the earlier versions). I tried to activate it, even manually by sending email at LicenseRequest@microfocus.com, but the acivation failed. I received by email the message: "The following error occurred during the authorization process MG0106: Unable to authorize the request. Please try the authorization later. If this problem persists, please go to Micro Focus community website at http://community.microfocus.com/ and look at the authorization issues under the wiki. For more information start a thread under the Visual COBOL forum." Can you please help me about the issue? Thank you very much in advance.

We are getting communication error while calling WINAPI. Earlier it was running fine but somehow from today onward its started giving this error. My code looks like as below:   call WINAPI CPIC-INIT using by reference ws-conversation-id                                                                symdest                                                                ws-cm-rc   We are getting communication error 20 while doing this. Any thoughts

Hi I'm porting a large desktop MicroFocus  application that is currently compiled to gnts  onto the Web. I'm using Eclipse 2.2.2 on Windows 10. The app will deployed on a Windows Server 2010 or later. The old architecture uses a sockets C program, compiled to a dll that was itself called by a compile Cobol gnt. Here's an extract from the COBOL program that called the sockets.dll 01 W00SOC-REC PIC X(6144). 01 ws-msg PIC X(6145). string w00soc-rec x"00" delimited by size into ws-msg call dynamicNTStdCall "sockets" using ws-msg  The other side of the socket connection is a Java program that paints a Gui screen using the passed information at run time. Gnts needing to  use the sockets Cobol program pass W00SOS-REC in linkage. As far as I can tell there is no native support for sockets on the Web, apparently for security reasons. However there is socket like protocol "Websockets" that is widely supported. I can install and use To

I installed VC3.0 for Visual Studio 2017 PE free for 1 year. When I create a project it says there is no license. I ask for a license, automatic via the web, but it says my e-mail isn't registered. When I try to register my e-mail it sends me to a website http://www.microfocus.com/p-visual-cobol-pe and that's it... It stays waiting for a response from >MicroFocus. After more than an hour I gave up... Can you help?

Above is a window with the error I'm receiving when trying to connect to a Microsoft Access DB from VS Cobol 3.0.  I connected it under tools which appeared successful.  Help!

Currently we have code that runs in a 64-bit  , Net express 5.1 , and windows 2008 R2 environment  ,  we are looking to upgrade to windows 10 or windows 12  and run the code there using NETX51 , but have sporadic issues running the programs under a WINDOWS 10 environment , so for the time being we have compiled the programs in windows 2008 , and run the executable on WINDOWS 10 , by setting the compatibility mode to windows 8, But going forward windows 8 is not going to be supported , so  how do we  do this COBOL CODE  migration developed under MF 64-bit  NETX51 to Windows 10 , or 12  without going to VISUAL COBOL.   Is there any special lines of code that can be added to the source COBOL programs to make it run under WINDOWS 10 .     Appreciate any help.

This might be a simple question... I declare a cursor for:  SELECT TOP 10 * FROM tablename but, there is only 1 row in tablename and I am fetching until SQLCODE = 100 Does the FETCH reach 100 after 1 row or does it keep processing until all 10 have been fetched?  

Hopefully someone can point me to where I am going wrong. Long story short..  IBM RS6000 AIX 4.3.3/Server Express 2.0.11  Server crashed and had to load from tape and thus corrupting the license db files.  I went in and tried to recover from backup db but fail.  Looked on the KB's and said to delete mflmf folder and go to $COBDIR/lmf and did the .install.  This is a developers license so went back to /usr/lib/mflmf and ran ./mflmadm and put in the S/N and L/N and it says "invalid platform."  I have looked everywhere in the forums and KB's and followed everything to a "T."  Is there something I am doing wrong or missing or is this out of my control and need to contact Micro Focus? Thanks! and PS this server is almost as old as me and I have been tasked with reviving it and AIX isn't my thing so bear with me! Dan#ServerExpress#aix#license

When I try to read a record, that is locked by another user, I receive the status code 9-68  or 9 65.  Is there any possibility from within the Cobol program to know besides this Status, the name of the user, or computer who holds the lock?  That would be very helpful for the person that is waiting until the record is released. Thanks for any help Rolf

Hi there, I need to get the MySQL db name I'm connected to. MySQL command below gets pre-compiler error, "Incorrect SQL statement syntax near: database". exec sql select database() into :aName from aTable end-exec. 'Select schema()...' gets same error, while 'select whatever()...' is fine. Seems to be a reserved word problem?  How to solve? Thanks, Linden  

Hi Team,   XA Resource is keep on disabling and we noticed below errors in the logs. Kindly help me on this . WE are suspecting we need to change XA resource parameter. ERROR:- XA Resource Manager initialization error. Resource BDP1 open failed, reason -00003   Thanks in Advacne

PROBLEM Starting from AcuBench 10.0.0 and higher there is an issue with strings that contain a hyphen. Place the cursor on a string with a hyphen, for example "file-status", and press ctrl-f, the search window will only contain part of the string. Double clicking on the string will also only highlight part of it. The last version where this worked was AcuBench 9.2.5 RESOLUTION This is fixed from 10.2 but can also be fixed in previous versions by modifying acucobol.ini. Find the [Parser] section, and the Delimiters line. Remove the dash (-) so the line looks like this: Delimiters ="'()* ,./:<=>| N.B. If the copy of acucobol.ini is changed in the installation directory, then all new users will get the change. If you fix the copy in your personal directory (usually C:\\Users\\<username>\\AppData\\Roaming\\Micro Focus\\AcuBench\\acubench.ini) then only the current user will get the change.#acubench#ACUCOBOL-GT

Hi I have a .dll written in F# that I need to integrate with. When trying to make a definition file with NETDEFGEN, the correct classes and methods are not found. Seems like the last class is found, with strange names. Is it not possible to integrate with a .dll written in F#?   Regards Dagl

  Problem Is it possible to print a Unicode file for a COBOL program when the local language is different to Unicode? Resolution Before the file can be printed, it needs to be converted from Unicode (ie UTF-8) to the local code page (in this case CP-864). This conversion is done using the standard Linux/Unix command iconv. The attached COBOL program performs the following tasks: Call iconv in open to prepare to convert the file Calls iconv to perform the conversion from UTF-8 (Unicode) to CP-864 (Arabic) Call iconv to close and release its resources. Convert_File.zip The program has been written as a subprogram so that it can be called prior to the output being sent to the printer. The program uses the following parameters when making the call to iconv: The UTF8 buffer (input buffer) The CP864 buffer (output buffer) The size of the UTF8 buffer The size of the CP864 buffer More information about iconv can be found in the standard Linux on-line manual (if it is installed), by

Hi all, Any ideas?  How might I call out from Visual COBOL (Windows environment) to measure the height of a given piece of text rendered with a given font, point size, column width?  e.g. A call to calculate the size of this text in Arial 12 point in 50mm width column, "FORD FOR SALE. Lovely condition, very economical, £30 road tax, low insurance. MOT to August 2018 with no advisories. Cambelt Water Pump and Coolant all changed in August 2017. Continental tyres with plenty of tread all round. Ford Radio CD with auxiliary port for I Phone MP3 etc. Owned by us since May 2011." Anyone done this from COBOL?  Any ideas appreciated. Thanks, Linden

         We are getting below error.    Please Wait.    Extracting Payload...         ./setup_entdev_3.0_patchupdate04_168607_redhat_x86_64: - ERROR - File size does not match that expected.    Perhaps this file is truncated or corrupt.    When transfering via FTP ensure binary mode is used.    Please get a new copy and try again.   Can you please help on above issues.

Hi,    I am currently try to use acucobol 10.1 to print the document with vietnamese character. The Vietnamese character is input using UTF8.  I can see all the character is correct but the problem that i face is the alignment is run.  Please advise how to made the program to print the document for UTF8 character without alignment issue.    Thanks You.