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I have inherited a largish RM/COBOL ERP system with about 900 .COB files and 150 .DAT files. I know a number of different languages and I am familiar with the business, but I have no previous experience with COBOL. I find lots of COBOL help documents on the web but little of it is RM/COBOL specific.  Finding and bringing an outside developer up to speed on our company and programs will take time and money. So I need to decide between the two options of hiring or doing it myself. I charge the company by the hour so I think that part is a wash for the company. Thanks for any suggestions.

Hi Where can we find the ACUCOBOL documentation today? My old links doesn't work well. https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/extend-acucobol/ Regards Kim------------------------------Kim HendriksenCEOPartex Gruppen ApsHinnerup DK------------------------------

I am a member of this forum because I must deal with COBOL code and  deliverables for work.  I'm sure I'll find many answers to my engineer's questions, here, once all the OpenText forum content is transmorgified over to this site.  In the interim, please consider the following - apologies in advance if this is duplicitous, once the OpenText forum content is loaded into this forum.My daughter has taken an interest in Rocket COBOL, in hopes of getting a paying gig/job working with COBOL.  How is a young person suppose to learn a Rocket COBOL, write programs, compile, test, etc. outside an academic environment  if you don't provide any sort of free personal/non-commercial licensing?  Far too many companies post job listenings requiring ten years experience from newly minted college grads.  That won't happen, of course; but these young people may be able to gain some certifications if there were some path to follow that didn't increase their already

Hi guys, yesterday i put a question on  Micro Focus Visual COBOL Discussions, (look at end of this post **) Blair Mcdonald suggest asking here... let me summarize: installed Object Cobol on debian, never used since purchase (2002).  all is working, but in accept i have bell and 'That keystroke has no meaning here'. Seems the program gets some strange input.. Then it stops regularly for user data, bua the same thing happens on any accept... using PuTty in telnet with TERM=ansi from the PC side it does not happen?! With out Terminal emulator (Ericom) we have this problem. I have checked the dialog with tcpdump (see listing) with a small program... Please have a look and tell me why the cobol program send the error message, without receiving any input... I know that the product is old etc etc, but where should be a way to exlain the thing and fix it.. Let me know any needed info. Thanks in advance. Dario The enviroment:  Linux debian 6.1.0-26-amd64 #1 SMP

ok, is not visual cobol related, but the previous object cobol product. since 1987 we developed application for aix, then with the version for msdos we successfullly ported some application.. we used very basic part of the product, no screen section, accept/display standard. in lan and wan using terminal emulator (ericom) we never had problems. In 2002 we purchased the linux version of the product, but it went asleep till now... Installed a debian 64bit (last version) with some struggle with os library x32, we get the cobol run on linux.    using the same emulator seems all ok, except for this strange behaviour: the accept sound the bell, and claims 'That keystroke has no meaning here'. Obviously no data was typed... after the message the data accept is normally done, but every field the bell and the message are replied. I am looking for some help, any guy out there is available?

We have legacy code in visual cobol (I believe the currently running code was compiled against VC 3.0, but not certain). I am trying to get it running compiled against VC10, but I'm facing runtime issues. After a lot of debugging I seem to have narrowed the issue down. The basic flow is this: The host application (VB.NET) calls a managed cobol method. The managed cobol method invokes a method in a another managed cobol class. The second cobol class makes a Call to a non-managed cobol program. The second cobol class completes and returns to the first. The first managed cobol method makes a call to another non-managed cobol program. An exception is thrown with the stacktrace below The key cannot be null vid System.Collections.Hashtable.ContainsKey(Object key) vid System.Collections.Hashtable.Contains(Object key) vid MicroFocus.COBOL.Runtime.Common.SyncHashtableMF.get_Item(Object key) vid MicroFocus.COBOL.Runtime.Common.RunUnit.GetNestedProgram(String program, MethodInfo& metho

Hello. Could you please provide a valid procedure to get the Visual COBOL for Eclipse Personal Edition with the corresponding License? I've noticed a second website migration to rocketsoftware.com (the firs one was to opentext). Now the only page talking about Visual COBOL for Eclipse Personal Edition is this one: https://www.rocketsoftware.com/products/cobol/visual-cobol-personal-edition But there is no any download/license request form link... Thank you in advance. Regards. P.S.    Actually I would like to say that people need a simple and quick access to the Personal Edition products. I really suggest to prioritize this subject and setup a simple way to get Personal Edition licenses and software. This will help to existing followers of your products that like be up to date about new versions but also will be much more attractive for new people. Thanks. #PersonalEdition#VisualCOBOLEclipse

Dear sirs, I'm using NetExpress 3.1 to create a ListView in my application. This listview has a check box on each line. How do I scroll through this listview and get all the values ​​from the columns of the rows selected with the check box. Yours sincerely Rogerio Barbosa

i had install a new windows 11 station with 24h2 version! Then i install the visual studio 2022 version 17.11.4 Trying to install vc10 on this station give following error message: who know a solution? Thanks for help! cg

Thank you very much for your support, we are receiving error 173 when running a cobol application, the context is the following, we have main programs or start menus which are compiled and generate a main .exe, we create .dll which contain cobol objects to be used by the main .exe. The main .exe is executed correctly but, when it calls an object of those contained in the .dll we receive error 173, that it did not find that object, if the invoked object is placed (the .gnt) we receive an error for the following object contained in the .dll How can we solve the error so that it recognizes all the objects contained in the .dll (there are more than 30 objects) Thank you very much for your instructions#VisualCOBOL

I want to see the changes after upgrading my workstation from win11 23h2 to win11 24h2 and after this upgrade Netexpress 5.x will not start and the mf licence manager find no license installed What plan Rocket Software for this? i had take a snapshot and will go back to 23h2, but is this a solution for the future? Thanks for help! cg

I need to convert numbers into words. For example, I would like to convert the number 123 into “one hundred twenty three”. The range I need is 12,345,678 (twelve million three hundred forty-five thousand six hundred seventy eight). I am trying to achieve this in a coupe of ways but this is turning out more challenging than I expected. If anyone has the code to do this, I would greatly appreciate it. I am using Visual COBOL v9. on a Windows 11 Pro machine. Thanks in advance.

Rocket Software is pleased to announce the launch of Rocket® Visual COBOL® 10.0. This family of products include Rocket® COBOL Server, Rocket® Visual COBOL® Development Hub, Rocket® Visual COBOL for Eclipse, Rocket® Visual COBOL® for Visual Studio, Rocket® COBOL Analyzer, and Rocket® COBOL Extension for Visual Studio Code. These are all formerly Micro Focus products. What’s New in Version 10.0 The release includes product enhancements, updated platform support, and fixes. It also delivers two major features! Natural Language Analysis Assistant. This new capability helps developers navigate complex COBOL applications, reduces learning curves, and enables faster on-boarding by allowing developers unfamiliar with the COBOL codebase to query the code repository in English, quickly gain application insights, and improve their understanding of the code. Visual Studio Code Dev Containers for Visual COBOL. This new container feature streamlines consistency and automates provisioning. For larg

I am using extend 10.5.1. How can i configure extend to use OLE DB rather than ODBC? It seems to always default to ODBC#SQL#AcuCobol#ODBC#SQLserver

Hello!! I have build the visual cobol function successfully and placed the executable file in the program main folder(where the project and solution files available). I have created a batch file in the project main folder and added the executable file name at the end. When I run the batch file getting below error message, Load error : file 'csqlsupp'error code: 173, pc=0, call=1, seg=0173 error message text not found Could you please help me to understand the error and how to solve the error. Thanks, Senthilkumar Mukunthu Thulasiram

Hello!! I'm new to Visual Cobol for Visual Studio 2022 and trying to upgrade the existing Cobol program which was developed on Net Express long years back to Visual Cobol 9.0. I just imported the program into Visual Studio 2022 and trying to build it. But getting below errors, 1> * Cobsql Integrated Preprocessor1> * CSQL-I-008: Invoking cp Preprocessor1> * CSQL-I-018: Invoking Sybase Precompiler/Translator1> 'cobpre' is not recognized as an internal or external command,1> operable program or batch file.1> * CSQL-F-021: Precompiler did not complete, no list file present -- Terminating Could you please help me to understand why I'm getting this errors and unable to find the 'cobpre' command anywhere in the program code. Thanks, Senthilkumar Mukunthu Thulasiram

I would like to see compile listing (Expanded copybook, subroutine, Include statements, Embedded SQLs) of each COBOL program as .lis (extension) or .lst similar in Visual Cobol 9.0 and above VS 2022. Normally, Micro Focus under Linux/Unix net Express environment generate the .lis file upon successful compilation.

I have a program coded for reading a record from a MS SQL Server database Table.  When I step through the code in debug mode it lands on the EXEC SQL statement and when I step again it lands outside of the EXEC SQL/END-EXEC structure. It looks as though none of the statements inside this structure are executing.  Is this normal?  If it is, is there a way to step through this structure to observe the back end process?  I'm not returning the record from my SQL  query and need to figure out why. My database and table are able to display in the 'Server Explorer' of Visual Studio. The database object is not displayed in the Solution Explorer. I'm using a ADO.NET DSN and it's connected to my MS SQL Server database successfully. I'm using GEN-SQLCA directive in the ESQL Preprocessor-OPENESQL. Here is my code: IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. FirstDBProg. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. CONFIGURATION SECTION. DATA DIVISION. * WORKING-STORAGE SECT

Got unhandled exception ('Cobol runtime code :253') occurred in [20452] cblxecwm.exe. Need solution.

Hi, we have found a different behavior between a program compiled with VC 3.0 and  VC 8.0 In both compilations whe have set default_cancel_mode=0 (Physical cancels: any program canceled during run-time will be freed from memory, making more memory available.) in the cobconfig file but, In VC 3.0 we can access the addresses of a variable of a program that has been canceled, but in VC 8.0 we cannot. How is this possible? Was there a bug in version 3? According to the documentation the default_cancel_mode appears in Visual COBOL 2.3 release Is there a compiler directive in VC 8.0 that allows us to access the addresses of a variable of  a program that has been canceled as in VC 3.0, but that frees the memory?

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

Ao executar um subprograma ("CALL") ao ler um arquivo indexado onde a chave é um registro funcional a execução é interrompida. O mesmo programa é executado no COBOL versão 4.1 sem problemas. Já foram analisados o registro do arquivo (não está corrompido), abertura do arquivo, parâmetros. Alguém teve algum problema semelhante? MOVE PAR-EMPRESA    TO  A-EMPRESAMOVE PAR-CODFUN      TO  A-CODFUN                                 READ ARQUIVO  INVALID KEY                                            &nb

I need instructions for migrating a Core built in 32 bits to a new architecture in 64 bits. On the current platform there is interaction between Cobol, Dialog System and CCI. We have new Suse 15 servers at 64 bits, we installed Cobol Server Version 10 at 64 bits, we installed a machine for Visual Cobol 10 development at 64 bits, the interaction with MFSD was activated through a graphical interface (browser) achieving the CCI connection, the CCI architecture and the existing Core were passed, it was compiled to 64 bits and the functionality of this implementation is being tested. The indication for which I request support is in reference to the CCI data or tables. The current error is related to the tables that are created and in use at 32 bits. These cannot be accessed by programs compiled to 64 bits. Should I upgrade these tables from the native 32-bit environment to deploy them in the new 64-bit environment? Or if I copy them from the old 32-bit environment to the new 64-bit environm

I am trying to get acucobol to connect to my local database and execute an embedded procedure. When i try this the ODBC Driver returns;"Optional feature not implemented"I am using sqlexpress 2016I have attached a zip file with an example program, screen shots of the DNS configuration and my database.Any help is greatly appreciated community.microfocus.com/.../question.zip#SQLserver#ODBC#AcuCobol

I am moving a bunch of programs from Unix to Windows and have found that there is a 130 character limit for the using keyword vs 250 on Unix machines. That is randomly breaking things. Is there some workaround for this? Brian