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Hi all, Are there any limits for Vision 5 files, in terms of absolute number of records or file size? Our client has a huge database of 2.5 mil records, dat file is 860MB, idx file is 470MB. Acuserver runs on a Windows based server.

Hi, I want to ZIP one file contained in a PC's local directory. Can anyone advise how to convert this into cobol? //Creates a new, blank zip file to work with - the file will be //finalized when the using statement completes using (ZipArchive newFile = ZipFile.Open(zipName, ZipArchiveMode.Create)) { //Here are two hard-coded files that we will be adding to the zip //file. If you don't have these files in your system, this will //fail. Either create them or change the file names. newFile.CreateEntryFromFile(@"C:\\Temp\\File1.txt", "File1.txt"); newFile.CreateEntryFromFile(@"C:\\Temp\\File2.txt", "File2.txt", CompressionLevel.Fastest); }Taken from the website:-www.codeproject.com/.../Creating-Zip-Files-Easily-in-NET

Problem: When attempting to start AcuBench version 10.0.0 on Windows XP there is a message "not a valid win32 application". Solution: Unfortunately AcuBench version 10.0.0 will not run on Windows XP. This is becuase the underlying third-party software upon which AcuBench is built does not support Windows XP. There is nothing that can be done in AcuBench 10.0.0 to overcome that limitation. The only solution for AcuBench 10.0.0 is to move to a newer version of Windows; i.e. Vista or later. If you must develop on Windows XP you will need to install AcuBench version 9.2.5 or prior and then configure the project to use the version 10.0.0 Compiler and Runtime. Here's how to do that: 1. Install ACUCOBOL-GT Version 10.0.0 Development System only, not AcuBench, and activate the license.2. Install ACUCOBOL-GT Version 9.2.5 Acubench only, and activate the license.3. Start AcuBench 9.2.54. Open your AcuBench project.5. On the Project menu select 'Project settings'.6. Click on

I'm having a problem in text fields that come from the MySql database.I'm using the following statement:EXEC SQL SELECT bdname INTO wrk-name FROM Costumer (the wrk-name is the PIC X (50).Then I'm using:set txtName:: Text to wrk-nameWhat happens is that the campio txtNAME is completely filled (50 characters) not allowing write nothing but nullifying the blank spaces. How can I resolve the issue? (Visual Cobol 2.2 with WPF)

I am trying to use AcuBench after being away for awhile.  Just installed Version 10 and tried to run AcuBench.  I get the message "aclnt.dll missing, or is missing functions!".  I have aclnt.dll in AcuGT/bin and I added it to AcuBench when I got the message the first time.  What am I missing?

Hi, I need to code a drop down box in one of our menu screen. I have zero idea how to do that. Does any one have any sample program of material which I can refer?

Hi, I am trying to compile a program using ORGANIZATION IS XML.  I am receiving the following (from the LST) but do not know why.  Can anyone help? * Micro Focus Net Express            V5.1 revision 000 11-Dec-15 12:20 Page   1* EP032CBL.cbl* Options: NOLIST NOASMLIST OMF(OBJ) GNT(.\\) OBJ(.\\)*          DIRECTIVES(D:\\EPS_SYSTEMS\\BASE_RLSE_CSC\\wmaNEX\\ENV\\NETEXP.DIR)     1 $SET P(PREXML) WARN ENDP                                                                            

Hello Chris, I am trying to create a structure FILE.DFS but the DataTools is not importing the structure of idy file generated in version vc.2.3. Simply does not show the layout of the record. With traditional DataTools generate the FILE.STR normally. What could be happening?

I am tasked with trying to find ways to improve performance of Visual COBOL application.  The Visual Studio Instrumentation appears to match to symbols from COBOL code for some functions, but in many cases can not match source.  I tried to VS Premium 2013 and VS Premium 2010 and get similar results to below. The "Summary" of instrumentation process will show long running Functions, but when selected it will display "Source code not available.  You may not have the appropriate symbol paths or there was an error loading symbols.".  I have double checked the symbols path.  Is there any known issues with using VS Intrumentation?  Any suggestion for determining which functions in our COBOL app are taking most of the time?

Dears, I've got the same errors on two of my computers. I need to use Cobol for school. When I try to build my program it gives me the following errors: "cannot open projectName.exe".  please help me

Prelude Several examples of how to utilize COBOL in a Microsoft .NET environment have been circulating for a number of years. Some of these examples are quite dated and due to Framework enhancements, (2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 4.5 and now 4.6) the use of the namespaces as well as the syntax used to access them has changed significantly. Micro Focus recently released Visual COBOL 2.3, our flag-ship product for Visual Studio 2015. With a number of changes that have occurred in both .NET and Visual COBOL an update of all our previous articles is in order. So over the next couple of months we will be updating all of our previous articles to the latest versions and introducing new articles with new content. We hope you find these articles educational and valuable to you and a benefit to your organization. Overview Do you create applications for use in multiple locations and languages? This article will show you how to use the power of LOCALIZATION within Visual Studio .NET to create one screen and ha

To install vc2.3 it must remove vc2.2. but when I install version 2.3 of the system is corrupt and not initialize so is necessary restore the last válid version. Has anyone experienced this? Visual Cobol for Visual StudioSystem: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit

I am running AcuGT V9.2.3 on a Windows 7 PC and need a AcuGT program to download multiple data files from a US Treasury Dept website for processing.  I wrote a sample program using WebClient .NET features to pull the files from the website, most of the time this program works just fine but other times it is failing with a Webclient error that reads:  The remote server returned an error: (407) Proxy Authentication Required" and then the program simply crashes.  What is odd is the random nature of this failure, I can run the program 10 times in a row and it will run just fine, then I can run it 5 times and it will fail with this error.  Five minutes later I can run the program again and it runs just fine.  The results appear to be completely random at this point. Couple questions: 1) Is there a better way to have my AcuGT program download files from a website or is Webclient the best approach? 2) If Webclient is the best approach is there a way to captu

The user has a SQL Server multi-subnet failover configuration and needs to connect via Acu4GL. Unfortunately, when A_MSSQL_DEFAULT_CONNECTION is set to the name of the listener for automatic mirroring, SQL Error 17 is returned and the application cannot connect to the DB. Has anyone successfully configured Acu4GL in such an environment?

Runtime Version 10.0.0: The listbox no more detects a dblclick Event (event-type 5). Any Idea?

Is it possible for me to redownload Visual Cobol Personal Edition for Visual Studios 2012? I got it a few days ago for my class, but I was having driver issues and went back from windows 10 to windows 8, now the page is no longer available when attempting to find it. I can find Visual Cobol for Visual Studios 2015,but nothing else.#PersonalEdition#2012#PE#VisualStudio#VisualCOBOL

Hi Has anybody some got any ideas how to get your Cobol application running on a tablet, iphone or android phone. As I hear there will be a HTML5 opportunity in version 10.1 but as 10.1 is not released before ultimo 2016 and  am afraid that we have to do something else in the meantime, to satisfy the demand from our customers. Of course it would be nice to have the full application up and running, but another solution could also be to make a few programs available on that platform. We are normally running a thin client in a windows environment Best Regards Steen

Is there a way to simulate a mouse left button click in a program. So that I can act as if the mouse left button was clicked however no interaction from the user?

For displaying reports my acucobol programs call winword through the C$SYSTEM.  ie, 05   winword-location  pic x(60) value "c:\\progra~1\\micros~1\\root\\office15\\winword.exe " CALL "C$SYSTEM" USING winword-location report-name.txt  giving exit-status Is there a better way for displaying reports instead of using command prompt to call Word?  The program which calls Word maintains a hardcoded list of locations for WinWord.exe and if its not found, the program calls NotePad.  Got two problems - 1) WinWord always moves location when new o/s comes out, so it'd be nice if there was an easy way that always worked for locating WinWord.  2) The latest version of Word is 64 bit and having problems calling it from 32bit environment.  Thanks alot #reports#CSYSTEM#WinWord#CommandPrompt

Main window i created a window with resizable. I want to activate and desactivate resize on the main window !

Hello: I have two situations where I can not find a statement certain to change as in programming (WPF):-How to change a property of CharacterChasing in a TextBox for "Upper" or "Normal"-How to change a visibility property to "Hidden" or "Collapsed" in a TabItem Thanks 

HI, I have a cobol program which returns me the array in a copybook when I pass that copy book to form and try to load that array in datagridview the value is getting changed. e.g  The Copy Book Variable is declared 01 S PIC S9(9)V99 occurs 15 times and when I am binding it to grid inside a loop invoke dgv::Rows::Add(S(counter))#COBOL#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION

Any advice what to look for to point my tech guys to the right place - cobol program compiled for animation using CBL_DEBUGBREAK - set compiler to option 2 - animation window pops up - step thru a few lines, no problem - then zoom causes error:  Cob version and callstack excerpt below ****** cat $COBDIR/etc/cobver cobol v5.1.00 PRN=R9CAO/AAJ:9r.B1.51.09 PTI=WrapPack 8 PTI=ES ***** 55949     CALL "CBL_DEBUGBREAK". 55950 55951     IF DW-CALL-STAGE = "11" lPerform/Call Stack - viewqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk xProgram Name                   Section Name                               x lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk x/

I'm using NetExpress 5.0 since... yesterday. I used Netexpress 3.1  many years ago. I cam compile all my project, after its conversion, but I can't obtain the exe file i DON'T KNOW WHY. Anybody can help me? Many thanks. J. Marques

Hi, Please let me know how to call COBOL program(API created in COBOL) in my C# interface with out changing original code. Thanks, Manasa