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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® RM/COBOL

ODBC Relativity Driver - Performance Issue querying alpha

We’re having some strange performance issues when querying alpha columns.  Even if it is key field it is much slower than when comparing numeric data.  The below table illustrates what we’re seeing.  I realise you’ll be unfamiliar with the schema but was trying to show introducing an alpha query to the WHERE clause really slows things down. The OrderNo is the Primary Key for the table. Is there anything that can be done to address this?  Either in the configuration or recommendation in the way we query Relativity?       Query Execution Time (Seconds) select orderno from [CCSI_CCSIFW].[ccsifw]..opheader where orderno = 'A300001'   20 select orderno from [CCSI_CCSIFW].[ccsifw]..opheader where BillTo  = 5393                and shipTo = 5394                and Salesm

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Visual COBOL®

VC2.3 not recognizing SQL.INI

Migrating Workbench 4.x to VC2.3. Created Native project with precompiler COBSQL for Sybase 12.5 imbedded SQL. Using EXEC SQL CONNECT statement for database connection however VC is not recognizing SQL.INI file to make connection.   Sybase Open Client is working properly as I tested with command isql -v. Returns proper version info. Also using isql to select table data. I am assuming this is a VC 2.3 configuration issue however I have not found a solution. Thanks for any discussion.#COBOLSQLCOBSQL#Sybase#connection#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® RM/COBOL

I would like to ask for help with creating an XML document, please.  Basically, I need to "wrap" an existing message with XML. Here is an example of what a complete message needs to look like. <AutoBOD> <AutoBOD xmlns="schemas.oxlo.com/.../SendFordFile"> <Routing> <SenderId>999X9999</SenderId> <DestinationId>FM</DestinationId> </Routing> <Body> <SendFordFile> <Detail><![CDATA[ 1HDR-91378-465-81A378-COMBAT -KA-00000000-6.00-FS -OXLHUB ENDFAS070101271378ACME AUTOMOTIVE 32154 BENTFORTH ROAD ALMA CO80020000091378^> 0001000036759 > 0002000002100 > 0003000006319 > 0004000001500 > 0005000000100 > 0006000000100 > 0007000000000 > 0008000106060 > 7967000000025 > 7968000000075 > 7969000000125 > 7970000000021 > 7975000002434 > 1EOF-FS11010602-03064-292143333-465- ]]></Detail> <FileName>O1125328.F465</FileName> </SendFordFile> </Body> <

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Net Express/Server Express

MF system routine is missing

Hello, please when I try to do this: call "CBL_DIR_SCAN_START" using by reference handle                                  pattern by value search-attribute                               flags returning search-status end-call I got error 173 - Called program not found I got this message on environment where I have Net Express 3.1. On the other one, where I have Net Express 5.1 everything work fine.#COBOL

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Net Express/Server Express

Net Express 5.1 license is not setup correctly

Hello, I upgrade my PC from Windows XP to Windows 7, also I upgrade  my Net Express 5.0   to 5.1, with WrapPack #06 #07 #08,, I’ve used RETAIN to keep my License. When the upgrades completed the product is licensed to the correct person and correct company, but Serial Number and Works Order Number not shown, they're “BLANK”. In the License Management System Configuration the License status = Net Express Full license. Next day I surprised the license is corrupted, I check the License Management System Configuration I found the license is not setup correctly, when I close the License Management System Configuration and I go back to Net Express I found the license is OK, and in the License Management System Configuration status = Full license. I don’t know what causes this error and I’m afraid it may occur again, anyone can help.

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Visual COBOL®

C# to Visual Cobol Statement

Hi, i have this in c#:             DataGrid grid = sender as DataGrid;             DataGridRow selectedRow = grid.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(grid.SelectedItem) as DataGridRow;             selectedRow.FontWeight = FontWeights.Bold; What is this in Visual Cobol Code? Best Regards Bernd

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Lanter WernerParticipating Frequently

Rocket® Visual COBOL®

arithmetic statement and type decimal

Using an arithmetic statement with a variable of type decimal generates an error message ‘error COBCH0034 : Operand DECVALUE3 should be numeric’. Using the MOVE statement does not generate an error. I can do arithmetic operations using the SET statement but it would be easier using arithmetic statements when converting existing Cobol programs.

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Anonymous

Rocket® Visual COBOL®

Visual Studio Editor - Block Unindent

In Visual Studio 2013 (Version 12.0.40629.00 Update 5) editor, with [Micro Focus COBOL] Tabs set to 4 & 4 and Insert spaces on .... ... you can highlight a block of code (that let's say starts in column 12) and hit the tab key to indent it, and it will move it to column 16 ... which is the expected / desired result. However, if you hold down on shift and hit the tab key to Unindent it, it moves it back to position 13, not back to the expected / desired position 12. It appears that this only happens if the "block" consists of more than one line.  If it is just one line, it handles it correctly. Thanks.

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Net Express/Server Express

Return value for CALL "SYSTEM"

Hello, please I am using commnad  CALL "SYSTEM" USING W-CMD-LINE where in W-CMD-LINE is for example DIR commnad Is there any possibility to get return value from CALL "SYSTEM" ? To get DIR command output directly to COBOL? Now I have to do: 'DIR > out.txt'  and then read this file in my program.#COBOL

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Visual COBOL®

error. Visual studio cannot debug because the debug target is missing

Hello!! Visual cobol shows me this error when I click PLAY to see what I have programmed. I would appreciate some help.. I add an image capture under this text, thanks a lot!! #debugvisualcoboltarget

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Net Express/Server Express

text file code page

Hello, in Micro Focus COBOL I am creating a text file. File is defined like this: select bankd-file assign to f-bankd-file file status is wx-fstat organization sequential. fd bankd-file. **************** 01 bankd-rec pic x(01). After that I do standard open output bankd-file and write Is there any possibility to setup code page for file? It's created in utf8 (I think by default) but I importing this file to environment which needs this file in cp1251. Or is there some easy way to convert file encoding? I can't use any third party solution. It must all be done in COBOL (or some Windows system command line routine). Thanks for any help.#COBOL

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Chris GlazierModerator

Rocket® ACUCOBOL®

Thin black bar on edge of some screens

Problem: Using ACUCOBOL-GT Runtime version 10.0.1 a thin black bar is seen on the right edge of some screens. Resolution: The issue has been identified as mishandling of the decimal portion of the screen size parameter and is in Development's queue for resolution.  In the meantime the workaround is to use integer values for the screen size.

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® ACUCOBOL®

Adding attribute with C$XML with length 0

I use v10.0.0 AcuCobol call "C$XML" using CXML-ADD-ATTRIBUTE element-handleattribute-nameattribute-valueattribute-value-length.attribute-value is spacesattribute-value-length = 0 The attribute value will have the previous attribute value. Is this a bug in AcuCobol 10.0.0? When attribute-value-length is set to 1 attribute-name = " " will occur in the xml file.

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® RM/COBOL

in reply to Tom Morrison

When we have assigned the print file to PRINTER? and have had our LPX1 in the DEFINE-DEVICE with LPX1 and port info it prints to the printer if that is our default printer.  However we get dialog errors that it has failed and been suppressed because BIS suppresses the dialog box.  

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® RM/COBOL

in reply to Tom Morrison

we are trying to print directly from a BIS service program to a specific windows network printer.

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Blair McDonaldModerator

Rocket® Visual COBOL®

Videos on Creating Web Services in Visual COBOL for Eclipse

There are 2 new Visual COBOL for Eclipse videos available on YouTube, related to creating Web Services from new or existing COBOL programs. The first demonstrates how to create a SOAP Web Service, and the second does the same for a RESTful Web Service.   These have been added to the Micro Focus Support and Training channel on YouTube. Here are direct links to the new videos :   Using Visual COBOL for Eclipse to Create SOAP Web Services   Using Visual COBOL for Eclipse to Create REST Web Services#VisualCOBOL#REST#Eclipse#SOAP#webservice

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Visual COBOL®

Error COBCH0002S when build

Hi when i build my source code (in attach) then build was failed: COBCH0002S error at line 281: i think my code is right My flow code:       read data file ORDERS.dat then insert all records into ORDERS table       read records in ORDERS table, check record if error then write that record to ORDER_ERROR.dat My ORDERS table structure: DATABASE.txt I also attached ORDERS.dat and project source code. Thanks for your support.

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Anonymous

Rocket® RM/COBOL

Relativity and scalar functions

I am trying to do math in my sql commands and would like to always get back 2 decimal place results that are rounded.  In regular SQL I can do a cast(a * b, as money) and that will give me what I need. I have tried using convert(a * b, sql_decimal) but this will always return the number of decimal places based on the result of what a * b is. How can I force rounded 2 decimal places? I have tried to use sql_float but to no avail. #relativityrounding

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Net Express/Server Express

Dear Chris, Do you have Idea about this error ...?? bind 34: dty=96 mxl=255(255) mal=00 scl=00 pre=00 oacflg=00 oacfl2=1 size=0 offset=792 bfp=1103c0690 bln=255 avl=255 flg=01 value="ORA-20000: (M)NO EXISTE USUARIO DISPONIBLE PARA ESTE CANAL(C)20509 " BINDS #5:

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Net Express/Server Express

Upgrade netexpress 5.0 to 5.1 from Windows XP to 7

Hi,  I've Netexpress VER 5.105.0076 installed on Pc running Windows XP service pack 3. I'm planning to: Upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7. Upgrade Netexpress ver 5.105.0076 to 5.1 ver 5.108.0030 I need to RETAIN Netexpress ver 5.0  from my pc to keep the license, but to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 cannot be done according to Microsoft rules. Therefore I have 2 methods to do that: Method 1 : Using Windows Easy Transfer  for XP to transfer settings and others from Windows XP  to Windows 7 Install New Fresh Windows 7 ((formatting the HDD)) Use Windows7  Easy Transfer  to get  that settings and others, here Netexpress  5.0 license  should be within these settings !!??   Method 2 : Upgrade from Windows XP to Vista Upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Then I will install the following: NXP325.106.0079.exe ((Wrappack 6)): the complete installation NXP325.107.0047.msp ((Wrappack 7)): to update the previous in

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Visual COBOL®

Single File Compile

Hi ,  What are the compiler directives to create a .dll for the single program ? ( My code is a managed code , also unlike Native code we donot have option to create multiple executable in Managed code ) I could set gnt and int from Tools-->Opions-->Micro Focus-->Directives-->Single file compile. Also How do i set this from Visual Cobol Command prompt if i have to do a Bulk Compilation of programs. Regards, Zoeb

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Anonymous

Rocket® Visual COBOL®

COBOL Source Format of invoked program when in Debug

In Visual Studio 2013, Visual COBOL 2.2. ... When you have Managed WinForms Program A invoking Managed WinForms Program B, and both are in variable source format as shown by the VS editor when editing each individually... and you are running in Debugging mode... when A invokes B and you are transitioned over to B... it appears in the old fixed Source format, with the right margin area greyed out... Thanks.

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Anonymous

Rocket® ACUCOBOL®

C$sleep in a Thread

We are having a problem that I would like to hear if one of you have a solution for . We are running thin client, 9.2.1 and we have a Menu system which starts threads of subprograms. When these subprograms reads a record which is locked we normally call C$sleep and read again after a few ticks. But unfortunately this behavior makes the focus of the window change to another subprogram. These is of course done because windows concludes that the subprogram with the sleep does not need ressources right now, and it would be a good idea  to bring anoher program in focus. We have stopped using the c$sleep and calls a while loop, and it is functioning very well, but unfortunately this behavior uses a lot of CPU etc. Do you see any other possibilities ? (we have also tried accept upon time, but this brings the program in focus, also if the user has switched the program in background)

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Dominique SacreRocketeer

Rocket® Visual COBOL®

Level 78 Hex Value Usage

The following code generated the CRLF and FFLF correctly as 2 bytes. However the TAB also generated 2 bytes  with the first byte being set to <null>... Question is how do I generate a single byte using the technique below or is there another way ? 78 CRLF              value x"0D0A". 78 FFLF               value x"0C0A". 78 TAB                  value x"09". Thanks Allen  

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Anonymous

Rocket® Visual COBOL®

Setting cobol tabs

Is there a way to set specific tabs is Visual Cobol?  Such as at 7, 8, 12, and 72.  Under Tools/Options/Text editor/Micro focus cobol, the tabs button does not seem to give choices like that.

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