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Do you know if Acu Connect has a time out setting.  If AcuConnect thinks that an AcuThin session is no longer running so it just disconnects the session. Scenario is a program is running that has a lot of records to process so is running for a long period of time - then without any error messages the AcuThin session is disconnected (program and menu programs are gone), user is sitting back at desktop.

 Hello, I'm trying to activate the freetrail license for visual cobol for eclipse, but I'm receiving the following messsage:       May I ask you for support on this.   kind regards, Vera

Dear Sirs, I'm using NetExpress 3.11 by going to Firebird. I would like to know if there is a possibility of using a variable in the where clause. Regards, Rogerio Barbosa

Problem How to solve the problem - Application reports 114 out of bounds error on ADIS Resolution The PC with the problem has a high resolution set to 1680 x 1050. If the resolution is changed to 1490 x 900 the problem is fixed. Alternatively if the resolution stays at 1680 x 1050, and if the font type in the SSH emulator is increased this also fixes the problem. For example - font type = courier new 18 x 10 This is increased to 21 x 11 This behaviour happens when using the EMTEC ZOC Emulator to connect to the server through SSH.    Incident#3110741 #unix#ServerExpress#ssh#EMTECZOCEmulator

Problem iso2000_dialect was used in Server express, is it needed in Visual Cobol ? Resolution iso2000_direct was used in cob.cfg and cob64.cfg files. It is not needed in Visual COBOL. Incident#3119248#ServerExpress#COB.CFG#VisualCOBOL

Problem Can AppTrack functions be run in batch or from a script ? Resolution Using the command $COBDIR/aslmf/apptrack batch 3 <serialnumber> <licensekey> will install a license Using the command $COBDIR/aslmf/apptrack batch 4 <serialnumber> <licensekey> will uninstall a license Using the command $COBDIR/aslmf/apptrack batch 1 and $COBDIR/aslmf/apptrack batch 2 will produce AppTrack lists. The lists can be piped to a file by adding > filename.ext   Incident#3102795#Licensing#unix#ServerExpress#AppTrack

Problem Accented characters in an HTML file, displayed through a COBOL program are not displaying correctly. Resolution The problem is that although the characters look fine in Ultra Edit or VI editor on UNIX, they are being mis-interpreted due to an incorrect setting of LANG (locale) environment variable. Using the locale command, displayed the following environment variables..LANG=en_US.UTF-8LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"LC_ALL= As the accented characters are not UTF-8, there will always be display issues if the program is run with UTF8 locale. The characters are displayed correctly as long as any xterm’s locale is set to iso88591 or iso885915  before you compile and run the program. Use the command export LANG=en_U

I have recently downloaded Visual COBOL for Eclipse for SUSE 12. While going through some of the installation video they said that I can install DevHub product on Linux and Visual Cobol product on my windows and can connect it remotely and work on it. Can somebody please tell me if DevHub is a separate download from Visual COBOL and if yes, then where to download it from. Can someone please provide the link.

Problem: By default, RM/COBOL will only allow inputting 7-bit ASCII characters into a terminal ACCEPT field.  However, international characters, such as accented vowels, are only available in the 8-bit character encoding space. Resolution: In order to allow the inputting of 8-bit(extended international) characters in an RM/COBOL application, you will need to place the following configuration record into an RM/COBOL configuration file: ------------------ TERM-ATTR DATA-CHARACTERS=32,255 ------------------  **You can load an RM/COBOL configuration file using the C, or X, Runtime command line options, or, by naming the configuration file, "runcobol.cfg", and placing it in the same directory as the RM/COBOL Runtime executable(runcobol).   For more information about RM/COBOL configuration files and the DATA-CHARACTERS configuration record, please see Chapter 10 of the RM/COBOL User's Guide:   https://supportline.microfocus.com/Documentation/books/Relat

I have a piece of code which have been running fine in Net Express. When compiling the same in visual COBOL for IDE I am getting some error.   The error are :  COBCH0071S PROCEDURE DIVISION missing or unknown statement and COBCH0082S COBOL Division or Section header encountered in incorrect order   Below is the part of the code with the lines highlighted which is giving me error.   file-control. 001100 select temp-b-sec-in-file assign to ut-s-insort.001100 select sort-file assign to ut-s-sortwk01.001200 select temp-b-sec-out-file assign to ut-s-outsort.006900 i-o-control. 007000 apply write-only on temp-b-sec-out-file. 002700 data division. 002800 file section. 012400 fd temp-b-sec-in-file 012500 recording mode is v 012600 block contains 0 records 012700 record contains 202 to 30704 characters012800 label records are standard012900 data records are temp-b-sec-rec-in-a, 013000 temp-b-sec-rec-in-b.

My company go over from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012.Now I work with Net Express 5.1. I have some questions :- Is it possible to covert to Visual COBOL for Eclipse on a Windows server 2008 ?- Are there "surprises" to be expected when converting to Visual Cobol take place ?- Is it possible to use/run Net Express 5.1 Runtime at the same time with Visual COBOL runtime in Acceptance test and Production

Is Visual COBOL for Visual Studio supported on SUSE Linux ?

Problem: A Dialog System application fails with the following error when it does a CALLOUT to "dsdir": Load error: file 'mfdir2'error code: 173, pc=0, call=1, seg=0,173 Called program file not found in drive/directory. Solution: This RTS 173 on 'mfdir2' occurs when the application is linked as 'Console Application' in Visual COBOL. It should be linked as 'Windows Application' instead. Here are the steps to resolve this issue: open the project in Visual Studio open the project properties select Windows Application from the Output Type drop-down under Application properties rebuild the project redeploy the application The equivalent of the above from the command line is to use the -g switch in the cbllink command, e.g. cbllink -g -v -re ...#VisualCOBOL

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 I have been going through the book and doing all of the examples. Everything went fine until I got to Ch10.  I had a problem where I could not double click to generate the button click code, so I thought maybe my files got corrupted and downloaded Ch10 again. However, when I did, I was not able to locate  the AgencyControl.dll file(this is the file that builds the fields for the New Lease form). Is it possible to get another copy of Ch10 with the required dll in it?#VisualCOBOL

i get the error RM/COBOL RUNTIME-VERSION 12.05 FOR 32-BIT WINDOW. COPYRIGHT (C) 1985-2010 BY MICRO FOCUS (Ip) LIMITED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REGISTRATION NUMBER ??-????-????-???? ERROR INVOKING UNLICENSED RM/COBOL RUNTIME. ERROR CODE = 3238002763 (OxC100004B) input license vault not found

Problem: When building a project, all output files are created in one location that is specified from the COBOL properties as Output Path. Is there a way to create the .exe in a different folder leaving all the other generated files in the output path? Solution: It is not possible to have the .exe created in a different folder while the rest of the generated files get created in the output folder. However, a post-build event can be used to have the .exe file to be copied to another folder after a successful build. Here are the steps to create a post-build event that copies the .exe file to a folder (e.g. C:\\Prod) after each successful build:1. go to project properties2. click on COBOL properties3. click on Build Events4. click on Edit Post-build5. type copy or xcopy (with a trailing space)6. click on Macros (to see all possible macro names)7. double-click on TargetFileName8. type the target folder to have the following:xcopy $(TargetFileName) C:\\Prod9. click on OK10. leave the Run th

Problem Using CJAVA-SETSYSTEMPROPERTY to set the CLASSPATH environment variable does not appear to set it correctly. The class is not found at CALL "C$JAVA" USING CJAVA-NEW. Setting the CLASSPATH in the runtime configuration file variable JAVA_OPTIONS works as expected.   Resolution CJAVA-SETSYSTEMPROPERTY function is working properly. However modifying the CLASSPATH with the System.setProperty method AFTER the JVM is started will have no effect. Each JVM instance has its own properties. The system class loader is initialized at a very early point in the start-up sequence. It copies the CLASSPATH into its own data structures, and the property is not read again, therefore changing it again using CJAVA-SETSYSTEMPROPERTY, once it has started, will have no effect. It needs to be set before the JVM is started.

Problem Calling C$FILEINFO and C$COPY using a file with a name that includes a diacritical character does not work. The data item contains the correct file name but neither C$FILEINFO or C$COPY will find the file.   Resolution The UNICODE changes in 10.1 were strictly for certain aspects of the runtime: DISPLAY/ACCEPT XML file contents SQL Server data Not all aspects of the runtime handle UNICODE. For example, reference modification still works byte-by-byte, and not character-by-character. Although the filename may appear correct in the program, that is no guarantee that the standard library routines will support it.

Problem: Back in Net Express, the location of the Dialog System's .icn side file had to be added to the COBDIR environment variable if it did not reside in the current folder. How does the Dialog System's .icn side file get resolved then in Visual COBOL if COBDIR is now strictly used for pointing to the installation folder? Solution: In Visual COBOL or COBOL Server, the COBDATA environment variable can be used to resolve the Dialog System's .icn side file.#DS#VisualCOBOL

Hi, which compiler directive I can use for check if data item is defined only once with the same name ? es: 01 NOME-PROG PIC X(08) VALUE "IXXR". 01 NOME-PROG PIC X(08) VALUE "IXXR". and the compiler should give the following error: COBCH0005S User-name FLS not uniquethank bye

We are having a serious issue that is causing a group of our users to get a Windows error to be thrown that is kicking them out of our application.  When we look at the dump of the error we see the following: From watching the recordings of the users it seems this might be happening if they are having some network slowness and click multiple times on an object or maybe click on menu options that are behind a screen being generated.  We are not 100% sure yet exactly how to duplicate but hoped that someone might have seen this issue before that might have some ideas. Our application is accessed via Citrix Windows Desktops using thin-client technology. Thanks, for any help.

  hi, making a validation to know if a file exists I'm doing an open i-o hoping it will return an error 35.00 that I'm controlling to do the open output but I'm getting a 30,75 error doing the open i-omore informationlinux 64 bits rmcobol 12.14 32bitsany can help me ? #RMCOBOL#COBOL

Problem: 'Connection is busy with results for another command ' error received when executing a COBOL application where the program tries to connect to an SQL Server database. Resolution: This SQL Server error message is thrown when there are multiple connections going to the same database, through the same connection driver e.g. ODBC. The error is not specific to the COBOL language and can be resolved by enabling the MARS (multiple active results sets) SQL directive. This can be set at a database level and/or in the SQL COBOL compilation directives by specifying SQL(MARS).