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HiWe have a customer running thin client at Faroe Island and the Acurcl is based on our server in Copenhagen, version 9.2.1 and they are complaining about the performance. Of course it is the connection, and they have a connection with 20 Mbit Down   and 10 Mbit up , but a slow ping  (around 65 ms). How much does this Ping influence in the performance. I have read about  AGS_RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE and AGS_SEND_BUFFER_SIZE but I can't se any changes in performance, when I change these settings. Has anybody got similar problems with slow Ping, and how have you optimized your system. Is it possible to reach a satisfied performance with such a slow Ping ?Does anybody know a good way to measure performance in a thin client environment ?Best Regards Steen

I was trying to test out some code in regards to the date in Visual Studio Cobol and I temporarily changed my system date on my computer. Now when I try to start VS I get "Unable to obtain the requested license Error 26: Request denied due to clock tamper detection". Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? The email I used to activate VS Cobol is tye_huggins@stu.indianhills.edu. Thanks for any help.#COBOL#VisualStudio#Error26-productlicenceclocktamper

Problem: Installation of Net Express or Server for COBOL fails with the following error after hitting Next from the Welcome screen: "error 1606 Could not access network location \\\\MachineName\\ShareName\\FolderName" Resolution: It appears Microsoft Installer needs to validate the locations that are specified for the following registry keys before starting the actual installation: Personal My Music My Pictures My Video These registry keys are found from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\User Shell Folders, and they need to point to a valid location. Here are their respective value by default: Personal %USERPROFILE%\\Documents My Music %USERPROFILE%\\Music My Pictures %USERPROFILE%\\Pictures My Video %USERPROFILE%\\Videos

I got MySQL installed, but I think it would be more convenient for me to use the SQL I already got.#SQL#VisualCOBOL#COBOL#SQLWizard

We would like to call a COBOL DLL from a Java Class compiled in Java jdk1.8.0_40. We have the mfcobol.jar from our NetExpress 5.1 environment (5.106.0079) - Windows 7 (6.1 Build 7601) Service Pack 1. The DLL is compiled with SERIAL directive and linked as Shared, Dynamic and Single-threaded. We get an Unsatisfied link error when calling the DLL from Java. Do we need a Jar - mfcobol.jar - that is JRE 1.8 compatible?  #mfcobol.jar#JavaClass#jdk1.8

Thanks for reply,, this error it happened only in one program calls an other 2 programs, the called program reads a record form Indexed file then it called a sub-program which makes some calculations in that record and gets the results back to the called program. I'm in editing phase I tried to animate it, but no progress, because it happens after  reading hundreds of records, I made a manual break point to the certain record no when it stops, but I did  not reach that number because it does't stop on the record number,, I've read a lot in the Web concerning this error, mostly they say the mfc42.dll is corrupted and needs to be reinstalled.  therefore I made a trial installation for Netexpress 5.1 in other machine with a fresh Windows 7 installation, then everything works fine.   in my situation I can't do that because I'm restricted with installed response key for Netexpress. so I thought of an other solution: I copied all the logic f

Kindly would you tell me how to do the repair ?? is the  uninstall  ((uninstall  programs  in Control panel)) ??. what  about If I do reinstalling of Windows 7?? as far as MFC42.dll is a part of Windows OS

I am looking for but cannot find a function that will return the contents of a folder (i.e. the filenames that are in the folder) back to my NATIVE COBOL program I have looked through the File Handling Library Routines and none of those seem appropriate The MS-DOS DIR command does this - is there a VC equivalent to the old DIR command? I have MF VC P/Edit 2.2 with V/Studio 2012 on Windows 8.1

Hi. Is it possible to acquire a trial license for ServerExpress running on AIX? THanks#ServerExpress

I ran into this error as I was defining my file. My file has 1435 fields and I got this error right around the 850 feild. If I use just 849 fields defined it works fine. Once I use the 850 field I get the error.  Any suggestions on how I can fix this error and continue on. Thanks Chris

Problem A user is trying to open a Relativity catalog, but is getting format errors within the designer tool. Why is that happening? Resolution As part of the process of creating a Relativity catalog, the file manager needs to be identified. For the majority of cases, this is the RM file handler as the data files are RM files. It is possible to configure Relativity to access MF files, so the file handler needs to be set to the MF file handler. Once the catalog file handler has been set, not only are the data files accessed using the specified file handler, but the catalog is also created using that file handler. This means that if the MF file handler is used, the catalog is created in the Micro Focus format, not in the RM file format. When the catalog is deployed, or the location is moved (eg moved from a development machine to a deployment server), the same version of the file handler needs to be present so that the catalog is correctly accessed. Incident #2827659 #Relativity#RMCobol

Problem What version of RM/COBOL will work on the new Windows 10 operating system? Resolution Windows 10 is due to be released on 29th of July, and we are currently working on supporting it with the next version of  RM/COBOL. Please note that RM/COBOL v12.10, and prior versions will not support Windows 10, however, the next release of RM/COBOL will be supported on this new version of Windows. Please keep an eye on the RM/COBOL Blog for more information on the release of the RM/COBOL products for Windows 10. Incident # 2829050 #Windows10#RMCobol

Is there an easy way to read Environment variables set by an other program  or a .BAT file  ore by the System?    I want to read the Contents of the  PATH   or   TEMP   or  PROMPT,  ETC.      Or must I make and execute  a BAT file from the program? Can I also SET These variables from within an COBOL program?   Thanks for any help Rolf

I have just converted a NetExpress to Visual Cobol 2012, and when I start the project, I get an error message that CBLRTSS.dll is not found.  I have looked in the BIN64 folder and it is not there.  Did I miss a download or a directive in the conversion?

I'm using Netexpress 5.1 on Wondows 7 64bit,, I got the following error : C0000005 Access Violation C:|Winodws\\System32\\ MFC42.dll anyhelp

My friends, We've recently suffered na HD crash and had to format the HD from our main development machine. What steps do i have to do in order to have a fully operational Net Express machine again? Should i reinstall Net and simply inform my new request key? There was no way to obtain a revoke key from the previous install due to the crash.

Hi, We have a client with a large COBOL application built on Net Express 5.1 - the data files are indexed ISAM COBOL files and we need to be able to read data from these files in C#.NET you you suggest the best approach to do this as the application is too big for us to re-write in C# and the client wants to keep his application i COBOL we just need to be able to access the data files from a C# application.

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has done any work trying to interpret WINPRINT-MEDIA-TRAYS values over 255?  These are the user-defined values, which probably mean something to the author of the printer driver, but are meaningless to an end-user without some sort of text description. Yours hopefully, Ian

We have just converted to Visual Cobol from RM.  Since we've gone live about a week ago we have users calling to complain that they are locked up in programs.  We're finding if one user is in a program that opens a record for I-O and another user is trying to run a report that uses the same record, the report program gets locked up, even though the report is only opening the file for Input.  RM did not display this behavior - in RM as long as the reporting program was opening the file for input then the report could be ran.  We're looking for a way around this. We found Visual Cobol documentation on line that references doing a read next-record with ignore locks  but we get a compile error on the word ignore.  We are running native code on Red Hat Linux.#help#rm#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION

I am trying to call a JavaUI program ”JavaSwingUI.Java” from Acucobol program on click of a button which will load the UI screen. I have the following in my event paragraph : CALL "C$JAVA" USING CJAVA-CALLJAVAMAIN, "JavaSwingUI"  GIVING STATUS-VAL. Java code:      public static void main(String[] args){      JavaSwingUI swingUI = new JavaSwingUI();       swingUI.prepareGUI();      } Initially CALLJAVAMAIN was missing in java.def file, so I added it with opcode 29. Now, when I execute cobol program which is going to call main function of the java program it errors out with -8 ‘Invalid Opcode’ I am using Acucobol720. Do I need to place most recent java.def file? or Is there a different way to call main method of Java program?

We are running Microfocus Cobol in a Linux Environment and recently upgraded to VisulCobol 2 2 1. We have discovered a couple of things where this version is acting in a different way compared to our old one. I have one example that I would like to share. Maybe someone else has faced the same problem. example: 01     W-INIT    PIC X(20) VALUE '1234567890ABCDEFGHIJ'. 01     X1          PIC X(20) VALUE SPACE. MOVE W-INIT TO X1 MOVE X1(10:10) TO X1(11:10)     After the second MOVE X1 will contain '12345678900000000000' . It seems like the tenth position,"0" in this case, will duplicate into position 11 and 10 positions forward. This is a different behaviour compared to our previous version where it worked fine. If moving to a new variable it works fine, but if you are trying to move around within the same variable you get thi

I am using EXTFH and cant figure out how to open the file as shared so it can be opened again in the same run unit. Can anyone help? Scott

private void limparTextBoxes(Control.ControlCollection controles) {    foreach (Control ctrl in controles)    {             if (ctrl is TextBox)        {            ((TextBox)(ctrl)).Text = String.Empty;        }    }}To calllimparTextBoxes(this.Controls);

I want to convert a NetExpress solution that has dialog system screen into Visual Cobol,  I have the Visual cobol on a separate laptop than the current NetExpress project.  Is there a standalone DIalog systems download that I can install on my new laptop to look at the screens for the new solution?

I'm currently working in an RM Cobol environment, and working my way into Visual COBOL. I have a question concerning adjusting the file/record size of existing systems. For example if a record is 1024 Bytes, and more fields need to be added. I currently write a conversion program to convert the file to the new size (Basically creating a new file with the improved layout and moving the old record to the new file). Then I update all the systems that use the file to the new size and layout. Which can be a pain if its very popular file layout. We don't use copybooks (boss has a horror story about helping a city with Cobol who had sources but all the copy books where missing). I was just wondering how you could, with Visual Cobol, do the same thing? And how would you track down which programs need to be rebuilt, in a Visual Cobol world. Finding the programs in RM is as simple as doing a search in the Source Directory for all programs that use the name of the file. But since Visual COBOL us