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We are using extend 9.2.5 10.1 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Services Pack 1 We exclude the directory from anti-virus When the call his done we have a on exception and on the same server extend 8.1.2.1 his working                MOVE SPACES TO FIELD-1           ACCEPT FIELD FROM ENVIRONMENT "OCX-DIR"           IF field NOT = SPACES              STRING FIELD DELIMITED BY SPACES                                "CLIPACU.DLL"                            &

Hi, I would like to ask whether it is necessary to install unixODBC on my HP-UX server if I want it to connect to the MySQL which is also installed inside the same server. If it is not necessary to install the unixODBC, can anyone please guide me on how to configure the connection of MySQL to AcuSQL? Thank you very much and sorry for the hassle.

I have a form in C# that receives a parameter would like the cobol call this program passing this parameter, the form would open and show what came from cobol?namespace nomeprograma{ public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } public void QualMsg(string MSG) { campo.Text = MSG; } }}Thank you!

We where using  TRANSLATE-TO-ANSI                1   Since we move to 10.1 we try to used   COBOL-CHARACTER-SET              ANSI   It is not working!

Hi, We need to reference an assembly that is the output of our daily build. The project of the referenced assembly lives in a different repository. It would be handy if we could use nuget, or are there other workable solutions? Greetz, S#VisualStudio#VisualCOBOL#nuget

I was reading this about file mapping but the link provided on 'filename mapping' no longer works.  So where might that chapter now be? This might be helpful: community.microfocus.com/.../configure-the-visual-cobol-file-handler-to-access-acu-vision-or-rm-indexed-files

I am guessing I should use Managed (might as well make the program be able to run under .NET as well as JVM) then after that I am not sure.  I suppose Console Application would be a fine but I am now wanting to do any interactive responses.  Just read in a file and take some of the data and spit out a new file.

Hi there, Can I pop-up a standard Windows error/info box from a VISUAL COBOL program without calling MF Dialog/winForms etc? On launch my program looks for a config file and I'd like to pop up a simple error if missing/invalid. I could use display but a standard windows pop-up would be better.  Thanks, Linden

After learning all the basics of COBOL Analyzer with Getting Started with COBOL Analyzer it's time to extract the extra value by learning how to use the different analysis tools that are part of COBOL Analyzer. In this module you will learn: How to use the Diagrammer tool How to define relationships you want to diagram How to use the Interactive Analysis (Hyperview) tool How to use code searches and code search reports How to use the Glossary to review conventions How to add Business names to data items How to use the Change Analyzer * This module is a continuation of the getting started tutorial and uses the same example sources.Module 7 -- Working with Analysis Tools.pdfModule 7 -- Working with Analysis Tools.pdfModule 7 -- Working with Analysis Tools.pdf

Hi, One of our clients updated its OS from Windows 7 to Windows 10. After that, all the entry date controls on our Acucobol custom software show wrong values or nothing at all.  We have tried to change the Windows properties for date format, language, region. All we get at most is a partial view of the dates, but if we click on the date entry control everything disappears or it just acts weird, showing only the hyphens or the slashs. They have the most recent version of the runtime 10.1.0 We have installed our software on other Windows 10 PC's and we don't have this issue.   Any suggestion please?

Trying to open a nex module, By just clicking it getting above Error 

I am trying to run program thru BAT file it goes to PC driver module and it is not able to call the program. and gives return code zero.

I closed some panes and now I can't find what option (I suspect under view) that shows the input fields for Name, Location, Solution, Solution name and a browse button.   How do I get it back?   I suspect there is a video on Visual Studio but that would be from the MS side.

What are your reasons for relinking the ACU-GT runtime? If you're adding functionality by including C functions, is there a reason you can't create a DLL or Shared Object Library (SO) and call that instead? If you're adding support for your own File System, is there a way we can make that easier, so that you can write your own DLL or SO instead? Are you relinking for some other reason? What? I am just curious.#relinking#VisualStudio

Completely by accident, I see that it's <theoretically> possible to expand and collapse portions of COBOL source code.  Just thrashing around, I somehow managed to create little and - signs next to the line number, just before column 1, and that clicking them causes code sections to appear and disappear.  My problem is that I can't find documentation about how to create, delete, and generally manage the expand / collapse function.  I would be most grateful to be pointed in the right direction. My Micro Focus product specs are as follows. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Version 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.6.01586 SP1Rel Installed Version: IDE Standard Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 01011-532-2002361-70367 Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010#VisualCOBOL#expandcollapse

Completely by accident, I see that it's <theoretically> possible to expand and collapse portions of COBOL source code.  Just thrashing around, I somehow managed to create little and - signs next to the line number, just before column 1.  (See circled area in attached screen shot).  I found that clicking the and - signs causes code sections to appear and disappear.  My problem is that I can't find documentation about how to create, delete, and generally manage the expand / collapse function.  I would be most grateful to be pointed in the right direction. My Micro Focus product specs are as follows. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010Version 10.0.40219.1 SP1RelMicrosoft .NET FrameworkVersion 4.6.01586 SP1Rel Installed Version: IDE Standard Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 01011-532-2002361-70367Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010

Hello,I received some files cobolWithout FD / Select Came only IDX fileInside the IDX file I think it has data and indices How to convert this file to TXT with fields I have in my computer NetExpress 5.1 and Acucobol 8.0 Need to convert to a txt with columns How to do this?#idx#convert

We are using Extend 9.1.1 AcuRCL on server2008, clients running Win7.  We have this installed in dozens of sites, with hundreds of work stations, working fine.  For one function, where we invoke saxon.jar to create an .fo file, and then use fop to create a PDF, everything works fine in a thick client session on the server.  However, from all workstations running a thin client session on this one server, the command-line calls to C$SYSTEM fail with exit-status=2.  This works fine at all other customer sites, with the same configuration of server (2008) and workstations, and also with other combinations. Just at this one site, the thin client sessions fail when calling both saxon.jar, and when calling fop.bat.  We CAN (and do) call other routines in the thin client session, including .EXEs on the server, without any problem. I'm flummoxed - I've checked everything I can think of.  The default user under AcuRCL has administrator priviledges, and becau

Just to clarify some things I have to PCs and I have been trying to get some version of Visual Studio to work with some version of Visual COBOL PE. I must have done something right on the PC that I will call Black Tower.  Both PCs are on WINDOWS 7 and the OS is fully updated. To get to the point here I noticed that now on the Black Tower PC that I have MS Visual Studio 2017 and Micro Focus Visual COBOL for VS 2017.  I am guessing it is not a Personal Edition as I was informed the PE version is not out yet.  Hence, I have done the work to get the MS 2015 Visual Studio and Visual COBOL PE on the Cube PC.   I still am having issue on that. But here is the issue on the Black Tower that has the MS Visual Studio 2017 and Micro Focus Visual COBOL for VS 2017.  When I go into VS and go to start a project I now see COBOL.  I click on COBOL and a window titled 'Micro Focus Visual COBOL Product Licensing' pops up.  On there I choose 'I want to a

Hi, Can I check something... is a call to mf routine 'PC_PRINTER_OPEN' equivalent to OPEN OUTPUT my-printer-FD where my-printer-fd is... SELECT my-printer-fd ASSIGN TO PRINTER organization is line sequential. Historically I'm using a mix of std cobol and mf printer routines. I'd like to use PC_PRINTER_OPEN so that I can name the document or perhaps there's another way to change the std 'COBOL OUTPUT' name? Thanks, Linden

Hi, After installing the Preview, when debugging a project that contains both COBOL and C# I get a pop-up displaying: I'm not sure if this is definitively a bug, but perhaps it would be best if Compatibility Mode was set automatically for mixed C# and COBOL projects. I understand this pops up as MF provide their own managed Expression Evaluator to parse the code and evaluate variables and expressions ... Hopefully moving forward this won't be necessary as I'm a fan of OzCode which won't work in Compatibility Mode! Incidently, should I report this on SupportLine? Michael

Visual Cobol Project Starts in Subprogram when debugged, not Main Program; Executes the subprogram in the project, then never executes the main program.  There are only two programs in the project.  Main program worked fine.  Then added Subprogram. I build the project after both .cbl program files are saved.  I have to delete the subprogram to get the main to work.  When I add the subprogram again, same problem.  I have gotten a Main Program - Sub Program to work in another project- passes data back & forth, executes, etc...  However, I cannot seem to get it to work in this project.  Tried to create a new project with a New Main & Subprogram, same problem.

I finally got a version of MS Visual Studio to show the Micro Focus VISUAL COBOL to show up. I first tried to do Visual Studio 2017 but Chris Glazier was kind enough to point out VISUAL COBOL is not yet ready for Visual Studion 2017. So I finally got Visual Studio 2015 up and running and can make a new project for C .  And I installed Visual COBOL 2015 and to my delight COBOL now shows up in the Projects option.   But I celebrated to soon.  When I went to make a COBOL project I got this error:        The Micro Focus CES daemon is not running.  Please restart the service in order to work with Micro Focus Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2015. And when I canceled out of that I got        No license for this feature is available.  This may be because it has not been installed or it is expired.   background:  My PC is on WINDOWS 7 and is all updated.  

hi, I have a program in Server For Cobol 5.1 wrap pack 9 on red hat systemthat goes wrong with a division by 0, but it does not return control to the script and I still see in the processes.I tried both with so that gnt but the process remains hanging after zero division abend.strace of call seems to be truncated:open("/opt/microfocus/cobol/lang/en_US.UTF-8/rts.msg", O_RDONLY) = 31fstat64(31, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=1988, ...}) = 0mmap2(NULL, 1988, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 31, 0) = 0xfffffffff76c6000close(31)                               = 0close(4)                                = 0open("/opt/microfocus/cobol/lang/en_US.UTF-8/rts.err", O_RDONLY) = 4fstat64

Visual Cobol Project Starts in Subprogram when debugged; Executes the subprogram in the project, then never executes the main program.  There are only two programs in the project.  Main program worked fine.  Then added Subprogram. I build the project after both .cbl program files are saved.  I have to delete the subprogram to get the main to work.  When I add the subprogram again, same problem.