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Am I reading the VC 2.3 Release Notes correctly? In order to upgrade from VC 2.2.2 to VC 2.3 I must first uninstall 2.2.2 and then install 2.3? Is this how its going to be for any and all updates (x.y.z) also, or does this apply to only major and minor version upgrades (x and x.y)?

Hi, I'm migrating from Net Express to Visual Cobol for Eclipse, for now I'm only testing things to understand how this Visual COBOL for Eclipse works.I created a JVM COBOL Project and I copy and paste one of our Net Express COBOL programs, when I set the compiler directive CALLFH(FHREDIR) but I get the error message "COBCH0865S Failed to find system program 'FHREDIR'", after a few searches on this forum, I found that File Handler is not supported yet for Manage Cobol programs, only for Native, and I need to ask to you, to and to , if this is still not supported. I have a lot of questions, this is one of many. Thanks in advance, #fileshare#callfh#VisualCOBOL#netexpress#fhredir

One of our customers is having an issue installing the 12.06 runtime on a computer.  The computer is brand new, running Windows 7. This is the error they are receiving during installation: Anyone know what this means?

I'm needing to show a message wait, searched the web but only found in C # using Threads, does anyone have an example of how to do?

Good Afternoon, We have a character-based menu system that is launching a graphical program via CALL.  This creates a new window with the graphical screen in it.  When I exit this program though, the menu appears in the new window rather than that window closing and returning to the original window (which is still up in the background).  I don't know what I'm doing wrong or what I need to do differently in this case so that my menu continues to operate normally. Currently, I am just calling DESTROY ALL CONTROLS and making sure to close all my files. Thanks for any advice, Jim#extend#AcuCobol

hi, why "Oracle pro*COBOL(COBSQL)" In Enterprise Developer  for eclipse in missing while In Enterprise Developer  for Visual Studio in present.? in the project properties is missing but it's work when i compile from command line with this sql directive settings: "P(cobsql) MAKESYN KEEPCBL CSQLT=ORACLE end-c COMP5=NO SQLCHECK=SEMANTIC USERID=cs3/cs3@CRIOS MODE=ORACLE DBMS=V8 VARCHAR=YES UNSAFE_NULL=YES CLOSE_ON_COMMIT=YES END_OF_FETCH=100 DYNAMIC=ANSI TYPE_CODE=ANSI p(cp) endp" thanks bye

Problem: A call to C$XML using CXML-GET-CHILD-BY-NAME returns "0" which means it did not find the child.  The child exists and can be clearly seen when viewing the raw xml.  Resolution: The problem is that the xml-name argument in this call is a regular expression: call "C$XML" using CXML-GET-CHILD-BY-NAME, xml-handle, xml-name. For the specific xml file used in this case the xml-name regular expression matched an element which had no children, thus the status "0".  The way to make it work as a text search is to add a previously undocumented flag for this operation - AREGEXP-COMPILE-NO-REGEXP.  Here is the call that will produce the expected results: call "C$XML" using CXML-GET-CHILD-BY-NAME, cur-handle, xml-name, AREGEXP-COMPILE-NO-REGEXP.  

Problem: There are sometimes lock errors reported by the Acu4GL interface when no other users are in the application.  Those errors include file status 99 and 9D,512. Resolution: Spurious lock errors are likely if there have been ungraceful program exits which can strand entries in the lock tables. To address this Acu4GL provides a way to execute stored procedures immediately upon connecting to the SQL Server.  That is by creating a stored procedure named “sp_AcuInit” within the "master" database (or the database where the stored procedures were installed).  Whatever is in that stored procedure is executed automatically upon connection. Acu4GL can be set to clean up the lock tables on each connection by executing the following SQL within the Microsoft SQL Query Analyzer:  (Note that you can use either master or the database the application runs against.)   use master go create procedure sp_AcuInit as execute lockdb..sp_AcuRemoveUnusedLocks

Problem: When executing a query in SQL Server against an AcuXDBC Linked server there is an error: OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "<linked server name>" returned message "[TOD][ODBC][GENESIS]Resource error: MERGESIZE overflow Resolution: The "MERGESIZE overflow" error can usually be resolved by setting the Merge Buffer Size, on the Advanced tab of the DSN, to the maximum of 65535. That is the number of record identifiers the merge buffer will hold. Should the error still occur then the Merge Buffer Size may be set to 0 which turns off boolean optimization and the merge buffer is not used. The other option is to rework the query so there are fewer duplicates to merge. Following is the complete information on the function of the Merge Buffer. Predicate clauses are connected with either AND or OR operators. AND operators are easier to optimize because the values can be pushed to an index. OR operators are much more complicated. For exam

Problem: Although no application is failing, the following error is reported in Event Viewer: Event Type: ErrorLog Name: Micro Focus ServerSource: cas0perfDate: 8/7/2013 1:50:22 PMEvent ID: 1Task Category: (1)Level: ErrorKeywords: ClassicUser: N/AComputer: machine-nameDescription:The description for Event ID 1 from source cas0perf cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer. If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event. The information below was also included with the event: Unable to retrieve registry info for - Active Servers The message resource is present but the message is not found in the string/message table Event Xml:<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System>  <Provider Name="cas0perf" />&nb

I ve noticed that many business customer and users have no license for running acucobol-gt applications. how that is possible? as a programmer its my duty to help against piracy. does anyone know how I can protect my copyrights?#licenseruntimepiracy

I need to read some Cobol data files through a linked server in sql server. I have followed the steps described here, just that I used version 8.01.02 of the Acucorp AcuXDBC ODBC drivers.   I have also created the Linked server in SQL, but I am not able to query the files. When I try to expand the tables group in the Lined server I get an error saying: Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server.   I tried to see maybe i need to create some catalogs using xdbcutil -d D:\\XDBCDataFiles\\INK\\xdbcVIX -x D:\\XDBCDataFiles\\INK\\xfd -v -a post but I got: Table Post is already defined. I have used the same files before with a linked server on another machine and it was ok. My cfg file that I specified in ODBC looks like this (I have removed the commented parts): dictsource "D:/XDBCDataFiles/INK/xdbcVIX"  file_prefix ";D:/XDBCDataFiles/INK/xdbcVIX;D:/XDBCDataFiles/INK/dataFiles"  invalid_numeric_data zero max_file

I need to know if any person can help me to get functioning the CVM.jar call from a multithreaded java code.

Dear Sir, I installed Visual Cobol for Eclipse 2.3 and now I get No editor descriptor for id org.eclipse.ui.internal.emptyEditorTab when I try to edit any Cobol Program.

Do P.E. users have access to Supportline web site?  I would like to access the examples and I have not had a response from the Supportline regarding my registration.

  Good morning, can i make an invoke a method created in the form of events? For example:   method-id button3_Click final private.       01 newForm2 type CfgEmpresa.Form1.       procedure division using by value sender as object e as type System.EventArgs.           set newForm2             to new CfgEmpresa.Form1           invoke newForm2::ShowDialog()       end method.      method-id ef-NumPedido_KeyPress final private.       77 wt pic x(020).       procedure division using by value sender as object e as type System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs.            move e::KeyChar to wt  &nbs

I have Window 10 Home 64bit. I have Visual Studio 2010 Professional (and 2013 and 2015, community editions.) I have downloaded the Visual Cobol PE 2.2 for VS 2010. I cannot install it. I get error 0x80070643. The log file is as follows: [17E8:18B4][2015-10-23T18:49:11]i001: Burn v3.7.1224.0, Windows v6.2 (Build 9200: Service Pack 0), path: C:\\Users\\Bruce\\Downloads\\vcvs2010_22.exe, cmdline: '/install'[17E8:18B4][2015-10-23T18:49:11]i000: Initializing string variable 'ProductRevision' to value '2.2.00244'[17E8:18B4][2015-10-23T18:49:11]i000: Initializing string variable 'InstallFolder' to value '[ProgramFilesFolder]Micro Focus\\Visual COBOL'[17E8:18B4][2015-10-23T18:49:11]i000: Initializing string variable 'RumbaCheckboxState' to value 'disable'[17E8:18B4][2015-10-23T18:49:11]i000: Initializing string variable 'RumbaLabelState' to value 'disable'[17E8:18B4][2015-10-23T18:49:11]i000: Initializing string variable 'EclipseLabelState' to value 'disable'[17E8:18B4][2015-10-23T18:49:11]i00

Hi Community, Wanted to share my problem with RM&Infoexpress installed in a HP Proliant Dl180 with 16GB of RAM and a 3TB Raid 5 running CentOs 6.7 32 bits. The server was running fine and loading the RM&Infoexpress without problems but suddenly when we rebooted it it refuses to load the RM/Infoexpress giving us the following Error Message: RM/Infoexpress: 30, Unix error 22 (Loc 478) (Shm/Sem) We looked at the Knowledgebase and applied a solution related to the localhost 127.0.0.1 entry at our /etc/hosts file but it does not help. Here are more details about our server: OS_NAME = Linux OS_RELEASE = 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.i686 OS_VERSION = #1 SMP Thu Aug 13 19:58:36 UTC 2015 ARCH_TYPE = i686 OS_KEY_NAME = "Linux Intel 32-Bit" Any Clue about this one??? We think that it is a matter of permissions. BTW, SELinux is disabled and Firewall is disabled too. Thanks in advance for your support. #RMInfoexpressCENTOSLinuxerror30#22Notloading

I'm using relativity to create temporary workfiles via ODBC --  Does anybody know how to create the file in a different directory than the install directory for relativity -- hopefully this is possible to do from within the query -- because I'd like different temp tables to be placed in different directories to help organize them For example -- the following query works CREATE TABLE tester( col1 CHAR(10), col2 CHAR(100), col3 CHAR(50), col4 CHAR(1), col5 decimal (10, 7)); but I was hoping that something like this would work somehow CREATE TABLE tester @FILENAME=/tmp/tester.tmp.data(col1 CHAR(10),col2 CHAR(100),col3 CHAR(50),col4 CHAR(1),col5 decimal (10, 7)); creates a file /opt/microfocus/relativity/data-server/tester.tbl I was hoping to have this file be located elsewhere -- /tmp/tester.tmp.data I have figured out how to use the following commands to move the path of the file -- however it still ends up leaving an empty file tester.tbl sitting in the install directory. {call

Hi, I have an old Net Express (and earlier) COBOL program that sends Hewlett Packard PCL code direct to an HP printer via LPT1 to print advertising layout page plans. The printer is attached directly to a user's PC. Current new platform is Windows 7, Visual COBOL. How can I tell windows 7/Visual COBOL to send LPT1 output direct to this printer? The program is below....  Thanks, Linden IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. LASERPAG. *REMARKS. * ----------------------------------------------- * COBOL Laser Page Plan Program * ----------------------------------------------- * Prints page plans on HPLaserJet printer. * Any number of pages can be output per sheet. * ----------------------------------------------- * Written by Linden Rowland from FEB 1991 * ----------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. SPECIAL-NAMES. CONSOLE IS CRT CRT STATUS IS CRT-STATUS. INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION. FILE-CONTROL. SELECT REPORT1 ASSIGN TO "LPT1". select planner-pag-file

HI, I'm using "Enterprise Developer 2.2 Update 2" , when I call gnt program from a batch script dos,  compiled with ANIM (32 bit) the statement   CALL "CBL_DEBUGBREAK" dont'  work, don't give error, symply ignored! It is possible in Visual Cobol do debug from command line( like a NX (MFNETX)) thx

F.A.O. Chris Glazier, I've tried our application on Windows 10 using the Visual COBOL cs2012_222.exe run-time. Seems fine but can you confirm if there are any issues that we should be aware of when moving our app from win 7 to win 10? Thanks, Linden

Hi, I've got some issues using w$font, in Windows: First of all I accept the standard Font: ACCEPT VP-MAIN-FONT FROM STANDARD OBJECT "DEFAULT-FONT" The Font is usually 'MS Sans Serif' - When I set this font to  14 size, the font is always bold - I can not define a 9, 11, 13 size, w$font returns a error, but from another application this sizes are available Can I do something to solve this? Thanks!

I am getting the following error when trying to rebuild a file from vision version 5 to version 3  -  "Invalid function parameter"  We are using runtime version 9.1.2. Here is more info on the file :       SELECT MIS2FL            ASSIGN       TO RANDOM MIS2NAME            WITH ENCRYPTION COMPRESSION             COMPRESSION CONTROL VALUE  70            ORGANIZATION IS INDEXED            ACCESS MODE  IS DYNAMIC            LOCK MODE    IS AUTOMATIC            FILE STATUS  IS DSTAT            RECORD KEY   IS MIS2KEY-NEW.       *(( XFD FILE = MIS2FL ))        FD  MIS2FL EXTERNAL             RECORD I

Hi, all: I am new in this community but need an urgent help from you. In May this year I downloaded COBOL Personal Edition for one year use until May 2016. It worked fine until September. But now I found the "product licencing" shows I have only 29 days left for trial. Again, I was told it should be good until May 2001, as shown in MicroFocus website when downloading this Personal Edition.  I have downloaded this version over the same process second time today and installed it with another email address for registration. But the 30 days trial problem remains. I now believe this was what happened: two days ago I accidentally clicked the button on Product Licencing page, trying to refresh licence. Due to this click, the system assumed (1) I clicked the button because my one year time is over and (2) I want to continue to use the software. Based on this assumption, the system started this 30 day trial counting down.  I wish you guys could look at my case and give some