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Is anyone using Relativity in a unix environment where you are sharing Cobol data with Windows?  I am trying to push data from Unix to SQL using a linked server and also update Cobol data from MSSQL Server Agent and from scheduled tasks running visual studio projects. Any suggestions appreciated as we are trying to determine if we have the right product or not. Eventually I also plan to use Visual Cobol with Esql to get Windows SQL data to be available to Cobol in unix.#Relativityunixodbcsharing

Hi, I am looking for tools to convert from Microfocus COBOL to Visual COBOL . Can you please provide some pointers for the same. Thanks. #MicrofocusCOBOLToVisualCOBOLconversion

Hello, I have a datagrid with multiple lines.Select three of these lines.How do I read the three lines I selected? Thanks Alberto Ferraz

Does anybody know how to create shortcuts in Extend 9.2?

Hello, I made my first program with a TreeView and is working.I used the method that is in the example WPFBOOK the demo. Now the question I am asking is how do I get the selected line?For example I have a locale with five clients. What I want is to click on a client and display your data in another window. Thank you Alberto Ferraz

This is not a big deal, but I have an Indexed File that is NOT described as OPTIONAL in the SELECT statement. When I OPEN the file I-O,  and the file is not there, it creates an empty file (good!  that's what I want!) and returns a status code of 05 (instead of 35). I would have thought that the status code would have been a 35 in this instance (as it is NOT described as an optional file). So, my only question is why is it 05 instead of 35 in this case? Thanks.

is it possible to identify CobolWOW thin client users on the Sco Unix server? Windows 7 pro pc's run CobolWOW Extensions- thin client v9  configured to use port 5010 & ip of SCO Unix server. The CobolWow object is on the SCO Unix Server. Note below that all CobolWOW Extensions- thin client v9 users are identified as "root" (can't tell who actual user is) # ps -aef|grep menu.cob     root  5440  5439  0 11:52:50       ?    00:00:02 ./runcobol /usr/cobolwow/me nu.cob S=00000010 K L=./libtclnt.so C=/u/xxx/idir/co     root  5859  5858  0 12:04:04       ?    00:00:00 ./runcobol /usr/cobolwow/me nu.cob S=00000010 K L=./libtclnt.so C=/u/xxx/idir/co     root  5871  5870  3 12:04:16       ?    00:00:00 ./runcobol /usr/cobolwow/me nu.cob S=00000010 K

The code below defaults to YES when the WOWMESSAGEBOX displays.  So the user can press ENTER or click YES for "YES" or click NO for "NO".  I'm trying to display the WOWMESSAGEBOX with no default so the user will be forced to click YES or NO in order to contunue. Any ideas?  Thanks!!               INITIALIZE MESSAGE-BOX-FLAGS.              SET MB-DEFBUTTON3 MB-YESNO MB-TASKMODAL TO TRUE.              CALL WOWMESSAGEBOX USING WIN-RETURN 0               "Continue Entering This Order?"               "WARNING"               MESSAGE-BOX-FLAGS.#COBOL#RMCOBOL

I downloaded Extend 10 62 bit version but not everything required was not installed. For instance the compiler ccbl was not installed as well as the sample/def directories. Am I missing something in this release. I downloaded the 32 bit and everything there seems to have been downloaded. Thanks David

Windows Messages / Extend 10.0.1 Hello,we have integrated a report generator into our COBOL application (List & Label of Combit) via a DLL. This works smoothly for years.Now we want to realize a sequence where the report generator send us Messages via "Windows Messages" back so that we can initiate new actions in COBOL.Can I noticed this news about a EVENT Procedure at the window? Has this window to be "modeless" and  the DLL-Call a "thread"?Or must I wait on a ACCEPT (... allowing messages ...) in COBOL?Alternatively, you can also use callback routines for the report generator. What is that and does it work with COBOL?Unfortunately there are no COBOL users in the report generator Forum or do not want to do so much. RegardsFrank-Peter Clees#WindowsMessages

Hi, guys I'm using a dll to get a xml string from a Web Service. I don't know what size has this string, but I need to store it in a cobol variable or in a file, to parse it later. I don't want to use something like:this: 77  XML-STRING pic x(5000000) My code: CREATE "@Manager"                  NAMESPACE   IS "Manager"                  CLASS-NAME  IS "ManagerHelper"                  CONSTRUCTOR IS CONSTRUCTOR1 (                                           &nbsp

I'm trying to download Visual Cobol for Eclipse Personal Edition but the only option that appears is for Visual Studio. What happened with Visual Studio for Eclipse? Microfocus has disabled this product? What happens to those who can't afford the expensive Microsoft licenses? 

I try to understand how Visual COBOL works in Eclipse GUI.  I turn verbose mode I saw this information in the build output windows: [cobollink] Linking Hello...[cobollink] cob32 -g -x -t -oHello Hello.o -U [cobollink] Link complete with no errors[cobollink] I can understand purposes about these flags: -g,  -t, -x from Enterprise > Micro Focus Studio Enterprise Edition for UNIX > General Reference > Command Line Reference > Compiling and Linking from the Command Line But I really do not understand flag -U The document says : Dynamically Load Unresolved Reference (-U) Causes any unresolved reference to be treated as a COBOL program to be dynamically loaded. Normally, such references would cause a fatal error at link time when creating a system executable, or cause a fatal error at run-time for callable shared objects. But I did not see any difference to use -U or without -U in the final executable file. Is there anyway to  turn off -U flag in Visu

Has anyone used the Crystal reports .NET interface to run, print and export a Crystal report from a COBOL program?  If so, I'd appreciate any suggestions, sample code, pointers or other advice.  Thanks in advance!

I'm having an issue when I'm compiling one of my programs.  When I compile, it is not generating a Listing. I have the L option at the end of the command line: @START /W C:\\PROGRA~2\\Liant\\RMCOBO~1\\RMCOBOL PRPDFSI1.CBL L The program compiles fine, but it doesn't generate a listing.  Anyone know why it wouldn't?  Every other program I compile with this same command generates a Listing.#RMCOBOL

# cat /etc/redhat-releaseRed Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.1 (Maipo) # java -versionjava version "1.8.0_91"Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_91-b14)Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 25.91-b14, mixed mode) # df -hFilesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/sdb2        99G   33G   62G  35% /devtmpfs        7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /devtmpfs           7.8G  152K  7.8G   1% /dev/shmtmpfs           7.8G  9.0M  7.8G   1% /runtmpfs           7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup # ./setup_visualcobol_deveclipse_2.3_redhat_x86_64 -noplatformcheck   Product will be ins

Problem: When opening a project, intermittently, the following error message might appear:Unable to determine the status of the product license: Unable to retrieve error details for error MFCES_ERROR_SECURITY_UNCONFIRMED See sample screenshot below for further details:  Resolution: This error can occur if the Micro Focus CES Daemon is not started using the Local Windows  System account. Check that the Local System account is used to start this service.

Hi,on www.microfocus.com I find setup updates of new products ( COBOL Server , Enterprise Developer , Enterprise Server ) to version 2.3 update 1 ,I find setup wrap pack for NetExpress and Server Express ( unix ),but I cannot find the download for the Windows Runtime Micro Focus Server 5.1 setup and wrap pack.Where are this product installer?thank.bye

The Acu4GL is compatible with SQL Server 2016?The version of Agu4GL contained in ACUCOBOL 9.2.5 is compatible with SQL Server 2016? Thanks for listening.#Acu4GL#sqlserver2016

Hi!I will get and set System Parameters like this in c#:             this.Top = Properties.Settings.Default.Top;            this.Left = Properties.Settings.Default.Left;            this.Height = Properties.Settings.Default.Height;            this.Width = Properties.Settings.Default.Width;            this.Closing = MainWindow_Closing;             // Bildschirmgröße anpassen falls zu klein!            HOEHE = Convert.ToInt32(System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenHeight);            BREITE = Convert.ToInt32(System.Windows.SystemParameters

Hello Forum members, I´m looking for some real life experiences perhaps even comparison data regarding  Vision Files performance etc against  for example an Oracle database with amount of transactions, speed etc. I think you can see where I’m going, I want information that basically tells me that Vision Files is superior to certain databases in certain environments. Does anyone have some comparison data, real life experiences to share? Thanks in advance, Piet #VisionPerformanceRDBMS

Hi all, We have huge data files with a data field PIC 9(2) defined in the primary key (it is a counter). Until now, there was no need for values > 99. But now we are facing a situation with a need for larger values > 99. How can we change the data type and keep the original information and record size? We tried by changing the PIC 9(2) to PIC 9(2) USAGE IS COMP-1 but the original values somehow changed: new_value = old_value 12336 e.g if old_value = 1 then new_value = 12337 Regards Th.

Problem: Many Visual COBOL projects may use the same copybooks, this usually would require setting the Copybook Paths within the properties of a project. How can the Copybook Paths be set for a Visual COBOL project externally in the environment? Resolution: Setting up COBOL Copybook Paths within a Project The location of copybooks can be specified in the project properties of a project, on the Copybooks tab, or adding them to the project as linked files or folders. This would need to be set for each project within a solution. Select the Copybook Paths tab and select the New Line icon. Enter the value or browse to location and select the Check Entries icon.   Setting up COBOL Copybook Paths within the environment The COBCPY environment variable can be set in the environment before launching Visual COBOL. When Visual COBOL is started, it will inherit the settings from the environment, a batch file or script can be used to set up various environment variables and file mapping

Hello,the only way I know is to have another project which is linked to the "main" project.In the linked project the function resides which can then be called from the "main" project. Is there a way to put a function in "main" project and also call it from there. I am using Visual Cobol 2.2 with Eclipse and remote projects. The projects are unmanaged Cobol. Thanks for any information on this topic.

Hi,I have a mfsort (32 bit) that sometimes with the same input give rts 9/114: Execution error : file 'extsm'error code: 114, pc=0, call=1, seg=0114     Attempt to access item beyond bounds of memory (Signal 11)TEMP=d:\\test114TMP=d:\\test114SORTSPACE=100MBSORTTEMPSPACE=100MBextfh:FILEMAXSIZE=8BASENAME=ONSEQDATBUF=1024000the command line:mfsort.exe use d:\\test114\\SRP.dat RECORD(V,1,27990) ORG(SQ) give d:\\test114\\SRP.srt RECORD(V,1,27990) ORG(SQ) SORT FIELDS=(91,16,CH,A,1,56,CH,A)because it does not have always the same behavior ?depends on what?Note that this error has occurred twice on 2 different Windows virtual machines ( VMware ) It may be an error related to the slow network? Thanks