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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

Hi, I have just downloaded Visual Cobol for Visual Studio 2013. Can anyone help direct me to the method to create a VSAM file (KSDS and ESDS) within one the platform? Any help is much appreciated. Mark Gialo

I am unable to configure Ajax in visual COBOL. Is there any documentation regarding this which could help?#COBOL#FormVisualCobol#VisualCOBOL#extend9.2.5VisualCOBOL#ASP.Net

I have a COBOL program that calls the next program in a series of programs (in house transactional system). It calls a program using this syntax: CALL NEXT-PROG USING blah blah blah NEXT-PROG is the next program in the series. most of the time this works great. We have this in a RUNUNIT, so we isolate what is being run. However, we recently ran into a problem. The program being called had the headers mixed up. It's an abort routine, and it should only be called if another program error-ed out. This program wasn't being executed, although it compiled. During our conversion process this program had a copybook put in front of the PROGRAM-ID, forcing the system to not recoginze it. First lines looked like this:       $SET CHECKNUM       REPOSITORY.           COPY CONNECTIONCLASSESREPOSITORY.       IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.    &nb

I am converting acucobol-gt to visual cobol and have problems to access the data files created by acucobol.  I have used the sample LoginFormApplication and have added access to an existing archive with passwords  The indexed file is fixed-length and has two archives called  ARCHMENU  and ARCHMENU.vix Using idxformat 17 or 21 the code error is 39C6 SELECT ARCHMENU  ASSIGN TO RANDOM NAMEMENU                             ORGANIZATION IS INDEXED                             ACCESS MODE  IS DYNAMIC                             RECO

When I bought the license of net express (developer and server for 10 users), I installed the developer, but later I did uninstall it, and lost the license. ¿How can I do to clean windows to reinstall again the developer license? I need some help with this subject. Thank you for your time. Juan Zarate.

I was using Net Express (version 5.101.0074) in Windows server 2008. Now I have installed the same version in windows 7.  I'm opening Net Express from an Environment file. The environment file has environment variables (COBDIR,COBIDY,COBCPY) and the variables SET LIB= Oracle client location and PATH. I do not know what LIB, PATH variables are for.   I have mapped a network drive in which all the dependency files are present. When I give Show Copy file it picks up the respective copy book from the mapped network drive.  I trying to compile a project. When I press build all ,I'm getting the message "Checking dependencies for DEBUG\\Project1.EXE" and after that it is not picking up all the included copybook in the project. It continues to rebuild but it is stuck after displaying following messages , it is not completing the compilation. please help * Micro Focus COBSQL Integrated Preprocessor* Net Express V5.1 Copyright (C)1984-2008 Micro Focus (IP) Limited.* URN&

I've been trying to download a DB2 environment to use with Visual Cobol 2.3, I tried using the Visual Server and it doesn't work, I unzip the files and run setup and it stops loading with an error.  I tried using IBM DB2 the free version and using director it tells me I need to load Java, which I did and it keeps telling me to load the new Java, when it has been installed successfully.  When I try to download the http version, I just click on RUN and nothing happens.  Is there a DB2 environment that works out there??  HELP!!

I have cobol programs that connect to oracle with connect /    When I want to use the programs in visual studio I have to change the connect statement to connect to adodsn.   Is there a solution for this?

Hello everyone, any ideas why i cannot enter i debug mode? My list file show the following: **************************************************************************************************** C:\\ACU_PROJECTS\\AT\\SOURCE\\AT211A.cbl Thu May 05 03:54:49 2016 ACUCOBOL-GT v9.2.5 Page: 2952 STATISTICS Total Lines: 168184# of Files: 19# of Data Items: 14618# of Paragraphs: 5656 Elapsed Time: 1.0 secondsLines/Minute: 9430878 Code Size: 939326 (0E553E)Data Size: 3248310 (3190B6)Shared Data: 56 (000038)Extra Segment: 49670 (00C206)Thread Segment: 22768 (0058F0)Address Table: 86964 (0153B4)Program Size: 4347094 (4254D6) 0 Error(s), 0 Warning(s) ************************************************************************ To mention also that the screen section has many controls (maybe mora than 50 controls in one screen). 

I am installing AcuXDBC 10.0.1 Enterprise Edition at Linux Server. If I want to connect by Windows Client (v8.1.3) I get following failure, it does not connect: Connection failed: SQLState: 28000 [TOD]ODBC Driver]DLLLOAD: xvision, lbaclnt.so: Cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I think it looked for the described lib-Files, but not found these. Libraries are available in Installation Directory, subdirectory "lib". Should I deposit path of Libraries in a configuration file? Can anyone help me? Thanks very much. Best regards, Daniel. #AcuXDBC#AcuCobol#AcuxODBC

To turn on visual style controls and visual style fonts for Dialog System screens we set the MFVSSW environment variable to "/c /f" when we start our application.  A user can select to either use or not use this feature.  When we launch our application we display a splash screen and its background is a bitmap that shows our company name and logo.  If we turn on visual style fonts, the splash screen is resized so that it is not as tall.  The bitmap is not resized so it is chopped off on the bottom.  I can turn on the visual style font default in the Dialog System designer and then resize the splash screen so that it shows all of the bitmap, but if a user decides to not use visual style controls and fonts a gap is left between the bottom of the bitmap and the bottom of the splash screen. Does anyone know of a way to solve this?  If bitmaps don't get resized perhaps there is another control we could use for the background image which does resize