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Hi ,Can anyone share a sample program to read xml file using micro focus cobol.

Hi, Do latest visual cobol V3 patch updates always include earlier patches? Thanks, Linden

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I have a question about clearing a pointer, please. I'm working on a program that uses a pointer.       01  REQUEST-PAYLOAD   usage pointer.       01  ZERO-LENGTH       PIC X VALUE x"00".       The program uses this command to set the pointer:SET REQUEST-PAYLOAD TO ADDRESS OF WK-CODE-BODY(1:CODE-LEN) The program uses this coomand to clear the pointer:SET REQUEST-PAYLOAD   TO ADDRESS OF ZERO-LENGTH My question:Is this the proper and most efficient way to clear a pointer set by the application? All advice, comments, and suggestions will be welcome.

 Good morning! As the subject line indicates, I am having a bear of a time activating MF VC PE.  Have uninstalled / reinstalled twice now.  Telling me that my e-mail address is not recognized and then tells me to got to the registration page but there is no registration link (that I can see anyway)...I would think that filling out the initial download info would have "registered" my e-mail address. Please help Thank you for your time Joel Toscano HighFlight56@Cox.Net

Problem Is it possible to enable additional diagnostics on the client side of an AcuToWeb environment? Resolution AcuToWeb offers a Gateway tracing facility on the server side, along with the usual AcuRCL tracing options. On the client side, the additional diagnostics can be enabled directly from the browser used to access the remote alias: 1. Open your browser and navigate to:http://yourserver:3000/ Then, select the "Enable Logging Client" box. Select your alias and click on the button "Connect". Alternatively, add the following argument to your direct URL: &enable_log=y For example:http://yourserver:3000/?hostgw=yourserver&portgw=8008&alias=tour&runtimeArgs=-d&enable_log=y 2. Click on the black-monitor icon on the top left of the screen. 3. Activate all the items for the "Show:" option. 4. Operate as usual until the error occurs. 5. When the connection time-outs or gives the expected error, save the recorded information to a file by using the "Diske

I have a question about the proper use of RMNet command "NetFree", please. I'm working on a program that uses a pointer.       01  json-string                 pic x(80000).       01  PASS-1-DOCUMENT      usage pointer.       01  PASS-2-DOCUMENT      usage pointer. The program uses XML Extensions command:XML EXPORT TEXT    JSON-STRING    PASS-1-DOCUMENT    "JSON-STRING"    "json2xml.xsl" XML TRANSFORM TEXT    PASS-1-DOCUMENT    "json2xml2.xsl"    PASS-2-DOCUMENT The description of the "NetFree" command from the book states:A pointer given by RMNet that caller wishes to free. Use this function only fo

I am trying to use HTTPPOST to upload an XML file via a web page. Content type needs to be multipart/form-data and it is posting to a form.   This works using Curl but I would like to do this in my program using HTTPPOST. Here is an example of the curl command that works: curl --form user=USERNAME --form pass=PASSWORD --form uploadfile=@XMLFILE.xml URL   I'm not sure how to do this using HTTPPOST. Do I need to set the payload to match the body of the post or is there a better way? I set a trace on curl and I can see the body of the post but it's a lot of information to hard code in a program.   Any help and advice would be great. Thank you#HttpPost#RMNet

Good morning. We are integrated the wrunnet.dll    #.net#wrunnet

As the subject implies: new Windows 10 PC, installed MS VS 2017, installed VC 3.0 for VS2017. Start menu has MF Visual COBOL section, but when expanded there is no "Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 20xx" entry like we have with VC 2.3.2 for VS2013. All of the other entries are there. Tried running repair, successfully, but no change to the Start menu entries. How do we start VC 3.0 for VS 2017?

Problem: In a Terminal Server environment, when the Runtime is physically on another machine and accessed via a mapped drive, the Runtime crashes for all users when either the first or last user to connect exits the application.  Whether it’s triggered by the first or last user depends on the OS.   Solution: This is a known problem and Microsoft has already fixed it in Windows Server 2016.  This Microsoft article describes the issue and workarounds: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2536487/applications-crash-or-become-unresponsive-if-another-user-logs-off-a-r The workarounds are: Install the Runtime on the server the remote users are connecting to. Connect to the server where the Runtime is installed and run the app there. Upgrade to Windows Server 2016 (requires also upgrading to ACUCOBOL-GT 10.1). Rebuild the Runtime with 'Swap Run From Network' enabled. The last one requires Visual Studio be available. If you have the right version of Visu

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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