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I am a developer in Cobol (ACUCOBOL-GT), now I want to develop an application on computer tablets: Micro Focus What tool can I use?#Mobiledeveloper

  Hi,   i did follow the instructions mentioned in below article "community.microfocus.com/.../4311.9220-attempt-to-execute-more-than-one-sort-or-merge-simultaneously.aspx" I did add the SECTION keyword for both the input and output procedure but still I am getting the same error. I am using VS 2013 with Visual cobol 2.2 on windows 7. Thank you.

This demo is designed for Visual COBOL for Visual Studio and shows an ASP.NET Web application with a .NET COBOL back-end that runs in IIS. When you’ve completed the steps below, you can open the solution file in Visual Studio and run the airport demo yourself. Instructions: Download a free copy of Visual COBOL for Visual Studio Watch the video to see how it's done Follow the step-by-step guide to build your own Airport Project For more information visit: www.microfocus.com/mobile AirportDemo-VisualStudio.zip#Mobile#VisualCOBOL

I'm getting an "invalid operand" as well as a couple of other errors on the following statement: display ctr in-emp-record upon console    on exception        display "Wow!"    not on exception        add 1 to ctrend-display. I thought that adding "upon console" would have satisfied the syntax rule 7 for format 1 on the following documentation page: http://documentation.microfocus.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.microfocus.eclipse.infocenter.visualcobol.vs2013/GUID-CBF8DCDC-1F63-4C02-AC0C-7FABBE6A04AD.html Any other suggestions on using the "on exception" clause?#Display#OnException

I open a connection in my VB.Net Client and then i use exec ado bind connection statement in order to share the open connection with my Visual Cobol class and perform some exec sql statements. I close the connection in VB and Cobol and when i try to use the same connection again i get an sql error "Duplicate connection name". I'm sure that both connections (VB and Cobol) are closed and set to null before any attemp to reopen. Can you help please?  Thanx

Hi, I wrote a HelloWorld program :         identification division.        program-id. HelloWorld.        environment division.        configuration section.        data division.        working-storage section.        01  ANSWER-AREA.           05  GET-ANS                         PIC X.                   procedure division.        DISPLAY 'HELLO WORLD'.           DISPLAY 'THIS IS THE FIRST COBOL PROGR

Would anyone be willing to share an example of C# program built into a DLL (the documentation suggests this is the best method) and called from an AcuCobol program. I need to be able to pass in various variables and return various types of data to my AcuCobol program.  I am having trouble finding good examples included in AcuCobols samples.  Thanks.

Hi I am trying to read an RRN (Relative Record Number File) in Visual COBOL, The file was created in Micro Focus and Now we will be using this in Visual COBOL as part of Migration/Up-gradation to Visual COBOL. when i open this file in program it is successful but when trying to read it with RRN number, i am getting an error code "23" that is record not found. Let me know how can i handle/correct this in Visual COBOL.

Hoping someone can point me in a direction on the web browser control.  We have started to use the web browser control to retrieve and display document images on our AcuGT screens, the results are promising.  But I have run into something new that I expect someone else has previously dealt with.  In some instances we are receiving XML data streams instead of document images - the XML is simply displayed within the browser control.  What is the easiest way to capture that XML stream so that we can parse it and act upon it?  Any direction would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

I am in Visual Studio 2010; Visual Cobol 2.0.  We are converting some of our ISAM files to MS SQL.  I am testing out a proof of concept that a single program can handle rollback of isam files and MS SQL tables. What I have tested; it does not. The SQL did not rollback nor did the ISAM get added back in from the delete. Can a COBOL program rollback handle both types of files. If it can, what is the necessary rollback statement or compile directives that are necessary??????        Background we are try to see if a transactional ISAM file is needed to become MS SQL table.#VisualCOBOL

Has anybody ever tried using Websphere MQ-client in (native) Visual Cobol programs ? We are migrating from HP-UX  (B.11.31 ia64) with Server Express 5.1 WP4  and Websphere MQ-client 7.0.0.0 to RHEL 6.6 (x86_64) with Visual Cobol 2.2 Update2  and Websphere MQ-client 7.0.1.3. Programs that run fine on HP-UX can get compiled OK on RHEL, but get a SIGSEGV (‘114     Attempt to access item beyond bounds of memory (Signal 11)’) at run-time. According to IBM 'system requirements' for Websphere MQ-client(s) the only MicroFocus supported Cobol-products are ServerExpress 4.0, 5.0 or 5.1. Even the most recent Websphere MQ-Clients (8.0) mention ONLY Server Express, there is nowhere any support for Visual Cobol mentioned. This might  be (technically) a pure IBM-problem, but does this mean we have to stick to Server Express  if we want to use MQ-calls in our Cobol-programs ? We have opened a service request with IBM for this as wel

I am trying out Visual Cobol Personal Edition for Visual Studio. Walking through the Getting Started page community.microfocus.com/.../811.getting-started-with-visual-cobol-for-visual-studio.aspx But when I try to build it, I get a message saying it failed though the error list is empty. ------ Build started: Project: HelloFromCobol, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------ * Compiling "\\\\mac\\home\\documents\\visual studio 2012\\Projects\\HelloFromCobol\\HelloFromCobol\\Form1.cbl" * Compiling "\\\\mac\\home\\documents\\visual studio 2012\\Projects\\HelloFromCobol\\HelloFromCobol\\Form1.Designer.cbl" * Compiling "\\\\mac\\home\\documents\\visual studio 2012\\Projects\\HelloFromCobol\\HelloFromCobol\\Main.cbl" * Generating HelloFromCobol.Form1 Done building project "HelloFromCobol.cblproj" -- FAILED. Build FAILED. ========== Build: 0 succeeded or up-to-date, 1 failed, 0 skipped ========== I am running on Windows 10. Any suggestions?

Good afternoon, I'm struggling to translate from C # to Cobol. Can someone translate this?             ReportDocument cryRpt = new ReportDocument ()             cryRpt.Load ("C: \\ temp \\ rlfatemi.rpt")             crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = cryRpt             crystalReportViewer1.Refresh ().

Hi, Thank you. I did as you wrote. I rebuild the program with the Output type=Console. Now I have the message : "Load error C:\\windows\\system32\\cblviom.dll". I searched in the C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus\\Visual COBOL\\bin folder and found cblviom.dll. I copied in windows\\system32\\, I rebooted the system and tried to run the program. The message remained the same (Load error.....). I don't get why ?#DLLError#VisualCOBOL

We are implementing a system that we are transitioning from Native to Managed. We already have the native code running in Visual Cobol. We have started replacing some native programs with managed code. We still use our native menu to select functions to run. When a manage function is selected from the menu we create a thread to run the managed function. So we currently have a functioning hybrid system, where the user sees a single menu for both Native and Managed function. Our problem is that we want to rewrite the menu using managed code. The ideal way to implement this would be to have a way for the managed runtime to raise an event in the native runtime. The question is does anybody know if there is anyway for the Native runtime to communicate with the Managed runtime?  If not, is this something that could be added?#HybridNative-to-Managed

Hie everyone, Recently, i work on Cobol and i found visual cobol , then i install trial version on visual studio 2013 ultimate i have this error: ["no license for this feature is available. This may be because it has not been installed or it has expired. Error details Unable to obtain the requested license: Error[5]: Cannot talk to the license server on host "127.0.0.1". Server may not be running" ] So i install visual studio 2012 ultimate and visual cobol personnal edition for it. I have the same error. I try to activate it withmy free license in visual studio and i try to launch license manager, the same message appears in this differents cases. I'm invited to change the IP adresse when i launche license manager but i don't know what to do. I'm on it for a week.#Installation#servermaynotberunning#license#COBOLEnterpriseDeveloperSortNavigationExplorer#eerror5#MicroFocus#127.0.0.1#help#COBOL#PersonalEdition#visualcobolpersonnaledition

I am evaluating Microfocus Enterprise Developer in part to make a Java 1.8 call to a 64 bit COBOL executable on Unix. When I build for Unix, the output is an obj file. The question is how can we call this in Unix from JAVA. I know on windows i can load a DLL using System.load() in Java - what is the equivalent when calling an obj file on Unix?#jdk1.8#Java#64bitcompilationissue

Hello, ich habe problems to get the file-size when i want to download a file from a ftp server. I have the example programm from MicroFocus, i read the description for FTP-Client in the AcuCorp News from 2004. But i didn't get the file-size.   When i send the "RETR" command i should get back the Answer from the Server with the file-size, which i can parse.I get back:125 Data connection already open; Transfer startingbut no Info about the File size. Example from MicroFocus:               initialize unix-send-command               move 1 to unix-send-cmd-length               string "RETR " delimited by size                      unix-file-path delimit

Using mysql driver /lib64/libmyodbc5w.so              SQL DESCRIBE ERROR  sql-Error-Description            PERFORM WITH TEST AFTER UNTIL sql-EndOfData               SQL DESCRIBE ERROR                  sql-Error-Description If an error, returns rubbish into sql-Error-Description and never returns SQL-RETURN condition sql-EndOfData. #unixODBC#RMCOBOL

 I have recently been getting this message when I try to run Visual Cobol "Unable to obtain the requested License: Error [26]: Request denied due to clock tamper detection." I had changed my clock settings on my computer to fix my calendar,  and now this pops up when I try to run a new Cobol program. I've tried so many things to attempt to fix it. Is there any solution? PLS HELP. i'm from Brazil#error[26]

Hi, Has anyone here used the Acrobat SDK in combination with AcuCobol? If you did so, do you have a sample cobol  program for me? I am especially interested in the following functions: - converting other files such as Word documents to pdf - merging multiple pdf files to one pdf file - OCR Thanks in advance, Emmie#acrobatsdkcobol

Question for Chris Glazier , et al...  Either I am confused or Managed WinForms COBOL seems to present some unique aspects perhaps not normally found in other .NET or OOP languages, due to the possibility of a mix of COBOL's tradition of fixed-length fields ( example: CONTACT PIC X(30) ) along with the aspect of variable length strings, winforms textbox controls, etc. Scenario:  A winforms-with-textboxes file maintenance program used to maintain a traditional COBOL Indexed file which has fixed-length fields. Look at your shareData example program (although it doesn't use a file, it is an example of doing maintenance to fixed length fields via winforms textboxes). Let's say you had a similar maintenance program using this/these screens to do maintenance against existing records already in the file.  Once you bring the existing record up and show the fields in textboxes, you would be allowed to make changes to the fields (and

The Font-size specified  in the CALL  PC_PRINTER_SET_FONT determines how many lines can be written on one page. But I observed, that also the Font-Family determines the vertical advancing. With the same  Font-size 12 I can print 59 lines using "MS LineDraw"  but  64 lines using "Lucida Console". Where can I read the real hight of a font or lines per page?  Although both have the same Font-size 12  Lucida only needs 0.4219 mm  for each line while LineDraw Needs 0.4508 mm. Is there a method to know these values for any font, or is it necesary to try it? thanks for any help. Rolf

Hello, I have recently joined and have over seven years experience with Server Express. 

Hi, I have a need to be able to drag a file from Windows Explorer onto an AcuConnect Thin Client screen - either dragged onto the screen or dragged into a receiving control (perhaps the rich-text-box).  The file being dragged could be anything file type including PDF, JPG, DOC, XLS - anything.  I then want to store that file on the host (Linux) server. I've done some work with the RTB control, and have a program that will receive a dropped file into a RTB control on my program's screen.  But I can't work out how to then save the file. Do you have some advice for me please? Thanks, Ian