Rocket® COBOL

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.

When I create a new Cobol console Project I get a error message: Did anyone knows more?

Created On:  05 December 2012 Problem: There appears to be a change since Rumba 8.1 where when you type in "localhost" to connect to your mainframe it shows a windows socket error 10061 and the connection fails. But when you type in 127.0.0.1 it works fine. Resolution: When you type "ping -a localhost", what address is returned by the IP stack?  Is it ::1? Rumba 8.2 is IPv6 aware now.  So what is happening is that Rumba is asking the stack to resolve "localhost", and it's returning "::1", the IPv6 loopback address.  Rumba attempts to connect to that address, but the Server application is only bound to the IPv4 address, so there is no response to the connect attempt.  If you look in your hosts file (Windows\\System32\\Drivers\\etc\\hosts), there is a commented entry for both localhost types there:   #             127.0.0.1            &nb

His there a way to have a pop-up menu different on each cell?

When loading a workspace that has many cobol objects, it is drastically slow on some of our older workspaces and not so slow on more recent.  Is there a method to restructure the index of the workspace so that the slowness is remedied.       daleh@hightouchinc.com

Hi, I would like to know your strategy for GUI, Mobile and Web interfaces on top of RM/COBOL applications. As there are many options, I would like to know what you are using in real applications, in particular for mobile and web access. Regards,   Juan Urraburu#RMCOBOL#GUI#Web#Mobile

Problem: A program which uses C$REGEXP to locate records, and works in version 9.1.2.1, fails to find a match after upgrading to version 9.2.5. Solution: In version 9.2 an enhancement was made to C$REGEXP in order to facilitate searching for multiple occurrences of a match.  The MATCH-START parameter is now both an input and output parameter.  Refer to the documentation here: http://documentation.microfocus.com/help/topic/com.microfocus.eclipse.infocenter.extendACUSuite/BKPPPPLIBRS079.html?cp=5_0_1_4_8_0_46  Prior to the change MATCH-START was only an output parameter and the program initialized it to 9999 which was fine then. The value returned from the routine indicated the starting position of the match.  With the new functionality the program passes 9999 to the C$REGEXP routine as the location to begin searching.  This is well after the item that matches so the routine returns zero indicating no match was found.  The solution in this case is to initial

I am new to MS Visual Studio 2017 and to Micro Focus and its COBOL.  I down loaded both but now what is step 3?  I do see I can choose C# and Visual Basic.  But COBOL does not come up as an option. File/New/Project and in the NEW PROJECT window on the left panel under Templates there is no COBOL

I am connecting to MSSQL 2012 from a managed console program using OpenESQL and ADO. I need to completely replace the data in several tables from some data files. I wrote a proof-of-concept that connected, truncated, read-and-inserted, committed and disconnected. It worked great. But in our production environment I need to minimize the volume of the database log files by temporarily shifting db RECOVERY from FULL to SIMPLE, and then shift it back after the loading is done. My "EXEC SQL ALTER DATABASE NEAS SET RECOVERY SIMPLE END-EXEC" statement returns with SQLCODE -226, SQLSTATE IM999 and MFSQLMESSAGETEXT "ALTER DATABASE statement not allowed within multi-statement transaction." Can anyone shed some light on this? VC 2.3.2 for VS 2013 on Windows 7.

Hello. I have a question about how to get the HTTP header into a COBOL program (which is a Webservice). It is possible to do that? If yes, where can I found information about this? I have an example of how to get SOAP header (via User Exits), but it is not clear of all and it haven't any information about HTTP header. I am working with Visual COBOL v2.3 Eclipse for Linux and Enterprise Server.   Thank you in advance.#SOAP#Web#VisualCOBOL#webservice#EnterpriseServer#http-header#webservice#HTTP#Header

Oi, Este é um exemplo de como você pode descobrir se um determinado processo está ou não em execução. Abraços, Coral Hi This is a demo to show how you can know if a specific process is being executed or not. Best regards, Coral Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - How to know Processes in Execution Veja também minhas publicações anteriores: Check also my previous posts: Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - DataGridView with Popup Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - DataGridView Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - DataPicker Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Listview Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Listview With Popup Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Keypressed Preview Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Calling Classes Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Autoskip Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Changing Foreground and Background Colors Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WFA - Working with CheckBox in DataGridView Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - A

Problem: AcuXDBC may return the following error when queries are attempting to sort a large number of records: "internal ZEXMAIN error : sort buffer overflow". Resolution: AcuXDBC provides a range of administrative options to set wider values, when the defaults are not sufficient. Using the asql tool (.bat or .sh), execute the following command-line: C:\\>asqlSQL (/? for help) ==>SET OPTION SORTPAGES T M where T = Total number of sort pages (disk memory) and M = Memory sort pages. The defaults are 10000 and 1000.  For instance: C:\\>asqlSQL (/? for help) ==>SET OPTION SORTPAGES 500000 200000; This setting is temporary and should be run everytime the asql tool is started. To have a permanent setting, store the SET OPTION lines in a configuration file, such as acuxdbcOptions.cfgThen set a new environment variable GENESIS_INITSQL to let AcuXDBC finding this file. For example: Edit a file called c:\\etc\\acuxdbcOptions.cfg Add the lines to this file u

Problem: ACUCOBOL-GT runtime 64-bit triggers a Memory Access Violation working with a .Net assembly. Resolution: Since the runtime in use is 64-bit, the .Net assembly has to be built for "Any CPU" or "x64".(the latter solution is preferred) Then, verify that the 64-bit version of Marshal.exe is registered on the client machine where the .Net assembly is executed. Start a DOS prompt "as Administrator". Make sure the 32-bit and 64-bit Marshal.exe are unregistered first: "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus\\extend 10.1.0\\AcuGT\\bin\\marshal.exe" /UnregServer "C:\\Program Files\\Micro Focus\\extend 10.1.0\\AcuGT\\bin\\marshal.exe" /UnregServer Register the 64-bit Marshal: "C:\\Program Files\\Micro Focus\\extend 10.1.0\\AcuGT\\bin\\marshal.exe" /RegServer - Run the 64-bit runtime again: "C:\\Program Files\\Micro Focus\\extend 10.1.0\\AcuGT\\bin\\wrun32.exe" program Please note that it's not possible to have&nb

Hi, Ive got the VC code below that I need to work in NetExpress which I presume will use x"91" can anyone advise how I need to code it? The program EscapeSequence is written in C# or C declare pDC as type System.IntPtr = e::Graphics::GetHdc set ws-string to w-st-unlock-settings set escape-string-length to size of ws-string::TrimEnd(" ") invoke type EscapeSequence.ClassCode::Print(pDC, xstart, ystart, ws-string, escape-string-length, w-align, ws-drawcolor, x-size1, xrotate, escape-font-style, escape-font-name); invoke e::Graphics::ReleaseHdc(pDC)   Convert using :- call x"91" using ????

Problem: The ACUCOBOL-GT application is accessing the runtime over a mapped drive. If the program is left running idle for approximately 30 minutes, when the user tries to reactivate it again the runtime would crash. In the Process Mononitor log, a network error was tracked with reference to the runtime. Resolution: The first advice in cases like this is to avoid the use of mapped shared drives. If it's impossible to spare this architecture, some registry settings may improve the situation.(see other articles in the Extend and ACUCOBOL Community about Opportunistic Lock) If the Operating System is Windows 10, users should be aware that Microsoft has added additional security to using mapped drives. Doing some researches, it's easy to find articles like the following which may explain the situation and implement a solution: Windows 10 losing mapped driveshttp://bit.ly/2fQyS6a "It appears this issue has actually been around since Windows 8 and is caused by Group Policy drives w

Oi, Este é um exemplo de como você pode trabalhar com um DataGridView recebendo valores de um Popup em WPF. Abraços, Coral Hi This is a demo to show how you can work with DataGridView receiving parameters from a Popup dialog using WPF. Best regards, Coral Download Demo Veja também minhas publicações anteriores: Check also my previous posts: Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - DataGridView Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - DataPicker Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Listview Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Listview With Popup Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Keypressed Preview Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Calling Classes Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Autoskip Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WPF - Changing Foreground and Background Colors Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WFA - Working with CheckBox in DataGridView Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - Asp.Net - Cursor Visual COBOL for Visual Studio - WFA - Cursor Visual COBOL for Visual Studio -

I was very excited to learn .net Cobol using Visual Studio until I got the error message about the source limit.  I am using the PE for learning purposes only.  Is there a workaround or how much is it to purchase a version that I can continue my learning.