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Hi I am using visual COBOL , I want to know exactly how to connect to db2 database and start using $SET DB2(DBMAN = ODBC) exec sql connect to ODBC DSN Name end-exec Is it enough or do I need to add anything in my visual cobol

Hello everyone:     I am trying to generate javadoc for my java project use the visual cobol eclipseIDE(toolbar→project→Javadoc generation) and I also generate an javadoc ant file(.xml) at the same time.     When I tried to run the  ant file by eclipseIDE, it just failed with java.lang.IllegalArgumentException. But, when I tried to run the ant file by command line like this: ant -f myAntFile.xml, it totally works!     Is this a bug with eclipseIDE or some default settings? And by the way, I am using Visual Cobol 2.3.2 Windows eclipseIDE.     Hoping for your answer, sincerely.    #ANT#VisualCOBOLEclipse#javadoc

Has anyone in the community experiences major run time degradation when running Visual Cobol-compiled modules on a virtual server? Here's what's happening to me:  Running VC 2.2, I wrote a test program in native (non-managed) COBOL that reads through 3 pretty large indexed-sequential files.  When I run this test on my machine, and point to the data on a virtual server using a mapped drive that points to a share, it runs in about 50 seconds.  When I run the program from the server, using a drive letter that is defined as a local drive to the server, it runs in 200 seconds.  If I run from the server and use a UNC path to point to the data rather than a drive letter, it runs about 65 seconds.  Each test uses the exact same data in the exact same location.  The only differences are where the program is run from and how it is referenced. I've opened a problem ticket with Micro Focus support, and they've been no help.  We've spun up diff

We are going to be getting a server with 4TB of memory  (yes... 4TB,,, not GB..) This is an HP Superdome  We are SEE 6.0SP2.    For years we have had in our ENV for Red Hat dynamic_memory_limit=50000000.  I am unclear from the documentation how this can be taken advantage of.  If I just eliminate it, will the OS and RTS handle this by taking the top off it or restricting it to 0?  Looking to really maximize this huge memory allocation.

I am trying to call a method within my c# dll. I have generated the dll and I have created the def file from that dll. That all works fine. The problem is the COBOL implementation. I am using ACUCOBOL 10.0.1. I am unsure how to call my dll method. DEF-file:       >>IMP(ACU-CBLFLAGS=-Sl)           OBJECT @ASSEMBLY           NAME    "@Test"           VERSION "1.0.0.0"           CULTURE "neutral"           STRONG  "null"      * TestNS.ClassName           NAMESPACE "TestNS"           CLASS     "ClassName"        

We're using XBis 9.2 under Windows; we receive a text string that contains embedded CR/LF characters.  In looking at the XML, the CR/LF characters are there; however, when the text string is passed to Cobol, it seems the CR/LF characters have been stripped out of the text. Is this normal behaviour, or something that can be changed via a setting, etc? Thanks Tony

Hi all, from when I installed the new version 10.1 of the Runtime, my main program got a strange and (for us) serious problem with entry field. In a few words the strange behavior can be repeated like this with the sample program i attach to this post: by the entry-field push 'space'; a menu pop-up will be created; select the 'test' option; after the popup message you will be redirected to the entry-field; with Runtime 10.1 you will see the space into the entry-field selected and the cursor property with value 2. With Runtime prior the 10.1 version you can see instead the cursor positioned at the beginning of the entry-field and the entry-field empty. This seams to be a little problem, but for as this is serious because we have different behavior when the cursor is at the beginning and when not. Here you can find my test program. https://www.dropbox.com/s/syv0f2aj224kxdv/test-ef.zip?dl=0  #runtime_10.1#runtimeerror#AcuCobol#extend

Hi All,    I am now working on the rollback features into my program.  I am facing a problem that if my program involve more than sub program, then the rollback seem is not works for the sub program if the failure is from the main program.  For example,  1) Program A is calling Program A-1.  2) Program A-1 is running successfully.  3) Program A is having failure on one of the file after calling Program A-1.  4) Rollback is rollback whatever save in Program A, but can the program A-1 data also be rollback when Program A fail.    Thanks You.     

Hi, as you can see on attached screen I can't search for program in browser view. Search for variable or section name in specific program is working correctly. Screen is from Net Express 3.1.11, but I have same problem in Net Express 5.1 Please is there solution how to search for specific program within whole project in this window? Thanks #netexpress

Trying to register free Personal Edition product.  Received message:  Contact information supplied and product Serial Number do not match. Please check the details below and press Next and our SupportLine team will register you manually using the information provided.   I'm using the same email as when I requested the download.  Filled out the second screen (full contact information) and Support responded with an email that I needed to visit the Community with questions. 

Dear Chris,   Windows 10. Versión Visual Cobol      : vcvs2015_23.   32 bits. Versión Visual Studio 2015: vs2015.pro_esn. 32 bits. Versión Sql Server 2008   : SQLEXPR_x86_ESN Service Pack 3. 32 bits.       1.- Trabajando con el proyecto creado para Visual Cobol en Visual Studio 2015, de repente Visual Studio 2015 se quedaba pasmado y no contestaba, no permitía hacer nada en el, mandaba un mensaje que se estaba ejecutando algo internamente y que si seguía así continuamente, hasta ahí se cortaba el mensaje, se dejaba al menos 30 mins y no contestaba, había que cerrarlo con administrador de tareas.   2.- De repente Visual Studio 2015 se reiniciaba solo y había que esperar a que volviera a funcionar.   3.- Con esta problemática se opto por desinstalar Visual Studio 2015 e instalar Visual Studio 2017.   Windows 10. Versión Visual Cobol &nbsp

Hello I downloaded free trial version of Visual Cobol 2015 for Visual Studio 2015 with  License Key DB6BD78EA0590FE1 and Serial Number  Serial (for support): 600000710381 But not able to activate it, as I do not have license key file and also it do not detect my email id Please help.  

Is it possible Visual COBOL Personal to use a variable for the 'assign to' name. I am working on a project that I need to split a file in about 100 different files for delivery. And DO NOT want to create 100 Selects and FD's.   Is this possible?

Is there a tag can run JVM COBOL by ant script(.cobolBuild) in Visual COBOL?I mean for example I can use tag<junit>(ant-junit.jar) to run junit by ant script.And I want to run a JVM COBOL by ant script. Thanks!#VisualCOBOL

Hi, Where can I find runpan2.dll? Regards,   Juan Urraburu

Good day everyone, AcuToWeb technology is awesome! It could just setup and deploy directly with a connection gateway will point to the alias which defined at server side without any code change. The problem comes when the performance across network LAN, MAN and WAN with different type of devices, preferences as well as security. Any recommendation and suggestion for the performance boosting where the architecture setup in LAN. The describe architecture as below: Server A [ AcuCobol-GT, AcuConnect ... data & programs ]; Server B [AcuToWeb ]Client A [ desktop ]; Client B [ smartphone ]All the Servers & Clients is setup in LAN running Class C network route, 128.150.69.254/24  I had setup and run AcuToWeb correctly with the active alias but experience long time loading up the program using a HTML5 supported browser, tested with Chrome and Firefox for both clients. The programs is display and functioning correctly but the time when loading up sub-routine, recursi

I'm working on a POC migration from mainframe to open system. I would like to know how to connect to db2 database using visual cobol? Is there any change we need to do to the existing cobol program which is calling db2 database?

I am working on a modernization project wherein a part of code is there in COBOL. I need to download Visual COBOL to compile and see if it works fine and there is no issue. Can someone please guide me as to which version must be downloaded or if any threads are there to look into for reference.

Hello!! I'm still new to AcuSQL. May I know if it is possible for me to setup the AcuSQL to connect to MySQL without using UnixODBC or MySQL Connector ODBC? Please note that both AcuSQL and MySQL are installed on the same server. And all the programs are saved and compiled inside the server as well. Besides, is there any other file that I need to edit aside from "config85.c" and "Makefile (which I haven't change anything since I don't plan to use ODBC)" in order for AcuSQL to connect to MySQL? Thank you. 

Good afternoon, I'm trying to generate a binary sequential file from the recover2, as follows: Runcobol recover2 k C = runcobol.cfg A = 'ORIGIN PATH, DESTINATION PATH, NOSUB' And it generates the following error: COBOL I / O error 30, UNIX error 32 on PRINT-FILE file PRINTER.tination available. The file size that is created is 1.13 GB. The runcobol.cfg is in the following way: RUN-FILES-ATTR large-file-lock-limit = 8 RUN-SEQ-FILES use-large-file-lock-limit = yes Thanks for your help.

Hi everyone, I am doing some test from the recently published Visual Cobol ebook by Micro Focus, the test is simple, but I'm trying to understand what's is wrong when I upgrade the java 8 jdk version. step 1 - create a HelloWorld.cbl with a simple sentence: display "Hello World" step 2 - compile with cobol HelloWorld.cbl jvmgen; step 3 - with java 8 update 51 run (from the Visual Cobol Command line 32 or 64 bits) the demo : java HelloWorld and runs ok step 4 - uninstall java 8 update 51 and install java 8 update 131 (the latest), add the environment variables JAVA_HOME, CLASSPATH and add JAVA_HOME to the beginning of PATH variable JAVA_HOME=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_131 CLASSPATH=%JAVA_HOME%\\lib PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\\bin;C:\\WINDOWS\\system32;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\;C:\\Users\\Aheredia\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps; step 5: start a visual cobol command line (32 bits or 64 bits) and try to run the

Hi, We are using PC_PRINTER_LOAD_BMP Cobol routine to print BPM files, but according with the documentation this routine also support others file types like BMP, GIF, EXIF, JPG, PNG and TIFF.So we try to print a JPG file but always we get the return code 18 (Failed to load bitmap) Has anyone been able to print another type of file? call "PC_PRINTER_LOAD_BMP" using printer-handle by reference "mflogo.jpg" & x"0" by reference bmp-id returning printer-retcode. We are using Visual Cobol for Eclipse 2.3 Update 2 Hotfix 1 thanks,#VisualCOBOL#BPM#jpg#Printer

Hi, Acuthin is now failing with UNC path naming to find program, message program not found or inaccessible.  Our working directory in alias.ini and our wcblconf code and file prefix directories are all UNC pathing and this was working fine until end of May.  Now we received the error message.   We have moved the program to the bin folder and of course it works fine and proved that this is not a commucications issue.  We cannot keep the programs in the bin folder.  Something else broke the UNC naming is our thoughts. Has anyone a solution or suggestion.  Much appreciated.

Visual COBOL RM/Panels Conversion Source Files for WindowsRMPanelsConversionSrc.zip

I Try to start CES daemon in the list of installed services. It fails to start. This after windows update.