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Prezados Senhores, When I insert an object into a screenset in Dialog System 3.1, the borders look like 3D. Is there any way to show these borders without this effect but with borders as in a textbox? Best regardsRogerio Barbosa  

Hi all,   Is there a data structure similar to Python's dictionary? In other words, an array like: my_dict('name') = 'Jack'   Thanks

Hi,   Got a new message here and it is displaying after compilation. Below is the message; "808-S Maximum number of data items exceeded." Any solution to this?#netexpress3.10#COBOL

First: Please excuse my lacking knowledge of the Micro Focus product structure and licensing. I have built a little Visual Cobol application in Eclipse and wish to run this on our customer sites. We will of course run this on the Java Virtual Machine BUT from my understanding the customer also does need a cobol runtime installed for licensing purposes? If so, is this runtime product the "Cobol Server"? Our customers are mostly on the "Micro Focus Server" product (running code built in NetExpress). Will we be able to run our java application on machines with "Micro Focus Server" or do we need to upgrade to "Cobol Server"? (Can NetExpress built code run on "Cobol Server"?)#license#Java

Hello, Does anyone have any experience converting a COMP-6 data field to a readable value? I'm trying to read a Vision Version 3 file in C#, and I can see the uncompressed data just fine, but not the COMP fields. What type of encoding should I use to get these out of the data?   Thanks Dave

In Extend version 10.1 (wrun32) there seems to be a memory leak. I have a program that calls many COBOL subroutines. This process is repeated very often. The COBOL subroutines should be removed from the memory after every run with "cancel all". After the program has run for several hours, it crashes without further error message. The only hint can be found in the error file via the runtime switch "-e errfile". There is "out of memory". During several debug attempts, I could see that the overhead memory is constantly and strongly growing. Does anyone have any advice on how the overhead memory can be freed?

Hello All, I was wondering if there was a way to read indexed vision files directly in a C# program, without the use of the XDBC program?   Thanks Dave

Hi, Was wondering if you can help me figure out if this is a limitation of the C$SYSTEM and C$RUN. I want our application to open a web browers and continue on (have it run on it's own).   If I put in the path (e.g. "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe" url) all is good when I call C$RUN or C$SYSTEM. The problem occurs when we replace 'C:\\Program.....' with  'START CHROME url'. When using C$RUN it comes back with a status -1 (error occurred). Using the same command in DOS (e.g. start chrome http://google.ca), it works fine.   Thanks in advance!! Dennis

Sorry to revive an old question, but I'd like to know if it's now possible with extend 9 or 10 to disable the initial comment in XML generated by C$XML (original filename and "generated by ACUCOBOL-GT", etc). This has been asked in the past, but there was never much of an answer.  Since C$XML does pretty much what I want, I'd rather not get into other solutions like XML Extensions. I've already tried deleting the comment with CXML-DELETE-COMMENT, but it doesn't seem to be handled like a normal comment in the XML. I can't even access it with CXML-GET-COMMENT, like I can with comments I've added myself. Is there some trick or configuration setting for getting rid of this comment?   Thanks, Claire   COMMENT

Hi,    May i know that how can i convert the hex value to ascii value using cobol.    Thanks You. 

Hi there, My Environment: Visual COBOL 3.0, Visual Studio Community 2015 How can I keep tabs when reading line sequential files i.e. not expand to spaces?  Ideally I want to set it so that my project always just writes and reads line sequential files without interfering with the content i.e. no null insertion and no tab expansion. Thanks, Linden      

Is anybody connecting to relativity using Linux client to Linux server? If so how are doing this?

Problem AcuXDBC does not support the SQL LIMIT function.  MySQL has a LIMIT function which does what it implies.  For example this returns only the first row:       SELECT * FROM MYTABLE LIMIT 1; When doing this with AcuXDBC there is a syntax error reported. Solution AcuXDBC supports use of the TOP function to accomplish the same thing.  This returns only the first row:      SELECT TOP 1 * FROM MYTABLE;

Downloaded product along with release notes then downloaded vcvs2017-30.exe and installed it having installed MS VC community onto a Win10 Pro X64 laptop. I have the following problems:   1.  The application name of Microfocus Cobol is not in the Start folder so have to start Visual Studio but MF Cobol is not shown.  I have run the install (repair mode) but this did not fix it then ran install to remove it then I re-installed. There are items in the MF folder but not VC start etc.   2.  When using the license manager directly, it says it cannot find any products when I try to activate license.  This is in all cases of 1.   3. Going to the website (ending with PE) it just goes into the generic location for VC trails etc so not helpful.    

Hi there, my name is Ruud and I'm new to this community. I've been a AcuCobol developer for over 25 years now and I trying to start using version 10 at the moment. Does anyone manage to print a bitmap with the new -P PDF option? It seems to me that the WIN$PRINTER-routine is ignored.

Does anyone know how can I detect when Windows enters tablet mode in my cobol program.   Regards, Georg#NetExpress5.1

Good morning, I need to change the hard drive of the computer where the NetExpress 3.0 is installed, please can someone tell me the procedure so I can get a new key respose. Thank you very much.Pedro Frongillo

Hello, We've been trying for a couple weeks to get a trial running with Acucobol 10.1.1. We dropped in the trial runtime binaries and when executing our application it immediately pops up an error about AcuSQL runtime not found.  Its there, in the PATH, just like our old version was. I even used activator to activate the trial license, which seems to work ok.  The runtime files are all in /opt/acu/bin which is symlinked to /opt/acucorp/901/bin.  I've updated that for 10.1.1, and I've put them in the same path, and even directly into /opt/acu/bin and still get this error.  /opt/acu/bin is in the system PATH too.  Anyone have any pointers on this?  We really need to get this testing so we can move to the newer versions of Linux. (old system is on Ubuntu 12.04)   Just to note, our old 9.0.1 runtime runs ok (sort of) and without the acusql error on Centos 7.4. One thing that confuses me. Our old Acucobol required me to setup a Makefile an

Hi all.   I have a function which saves text data to a log file.  I want process A to write a bunch of data (an XML transaction) and THEN have process B write some other data. Currently the function opens the log file with extend, writes the data, and closes the file.  (The write uses "WITH NO CONTROL").  Most of the time things are fine, but the red hat enterprise server it's running on will occasionally merge the output together - character by character so it looks encrypted!    I know I can fix this by simply adding an extra step - try to lock the file and keep trying until it becomes available.  I'm wondering if there some kind of setting that will 'chunk' the data together so the two processes do not overlap each other.   Note: I'm fairly sure I already tried "BLOCK CONTAINS" a while back, with a size large enough for the chunk of data - didn't help.  Runtime is version 9.2.1#ACUCOBOL9.2.1#unix

My working environment: a new install of Windows 10, extend 10.0.0, Visual Studio 2013, .NET Framework 4, 64-bit OS but coding for 32-bit, executing from AcuBench. I have been working with this particular project since September.  I have a Visual Studio project that is called from COBOL.  It was working fine, until a couple of weeks ago.  I had been running Windows 7 upgraded to Windows 10.  My hard drive had problems, and I had to wipe it and reinstall everything, so now I have a clean install of Windows 10.  My data files were saved, so I was able to copy them back into my working environment.  Since the rebuild, I have gotten the dreaded "Invalid Class String" error.  I had previously built the AmortControl sample project, because it has objects similar to what I was trying to do in my project.  It also had been working fine in my former environment.  So as a test, I rebuilt AmortControl, and it also has the error occur now.  This le

I can do a  set prop on “cols” to give me 10 columns call wowsetprop using win-return vsgrid-h         "cols" 10   But when I try to do a set prop on “ colposition” or “colhidden” just for example I keep getting errors.   call wowsetprop using win-return vsgridU-h "colposition" 0 2 this should move column 0 to column 2 but I get this error.   It is like only the simple properties you can set at run time. This is all totally new to me so any ideas would be appreciated.   thanks

Is it possible to go through a group of radio buttons with the up-arrow key? To go through the group of radio-buttons with the down-arrow, left-arrow or right-arrow key is no problem but the up-arrow key causes an exception.  Does anyone here has a solution for me?   Kind regards,   Emmie#AcuCobol

Hi, I am getting the Activation failed message when I try to activate the free trial of Visual Cobol PE. I used the same email address that I entered to download the product. How should I activate?   Thanks, Chris

Dear Sirs, I use NetExpress 3.1 and created a View. It turns out that when I run a select from it, I get the following message: [ODBC FIREBIRD DRIVER] [FIREBIRD] Dynamic SQL ErrorSQL error code = -204 Table unknown VPRODUTOSLINHA at line 1, column 494 exec sql create view vProdutosLinha ( Vid_produto, Vproduto_nome, Vproduto_numero, Vid_secao, Vid_grupo, Vid_subgrupo, Vid_unidade, Vid_codigo_ncm, Vcest, Vsituacao, Vatualizacao_data, Vatualizacao_hora, Vatualizacao_login, Vpis_cofins, Vid_produto_linha, Vlinha_numero, Vlocal_compra, Vlocal_entrega, Vmargem_venda, Vcomprador, Vnome_reduzido, Vcod_tributacao, Vid_produto_balanca, Vpdv, Vid_produto_derivado, Vcobertura, Vpedidos_filiais, Vid_fornecedor, Vsecao_numero, Vgrupo_numero, Vsubgrupo_numero) as select p.id_produto, p.produto_nome, p.produto_numero, p.id_secao, p.id_grupo, p.id_subgrupo, p.id_unidade, p.id_codigo_ncm, p.cest, p.situacao, p.atualizacao_data, p.atualizacao_hora, p.atualizacao_login, p.pis_cofins, p.id_produto_linha,

PROBLEM The C$SOCKET function to create a client connection sometimes fails using extend 10.x.x whereas it appears to be working in previous versions. RESOLUTION The C$SOCKET function to create a client connection has always assumed that the server name passed is filled with LOW-VALUES on the right, though this was never documented. As a result, sometimes this function would work correctly, and occasionally it would fail. If you right-fill the server-name variable with LOW-VALUES, this will always work. Starting with version 10.2, this will no longer be required.