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Will the Visual COBOL release cadence continue as is?  Is there a new release coming? 

I upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 by getting a whole new machine.  I downloaded Enterprise Developer 8.0 and Patch 18 on top of Visual Studio 2019 and tried to build a few programs.  The few I've tried all failed - most but not all of the copybooks can't be located.  What is happening here?  I've never had a problem with previous upgrades, with of Windows versions or more often Micro Focus.

Hi, I'm encountering an issue with a DLL built on the .NET Framework 4.7.2. I generated a .def file using axDefGen and included it in my AcuCobol program. Although the function I needed appeared in the .def file, I encountered a "System Exception, Member not found" error when running the AcuCobol program. I then tried using NetDefGen to generate the .def file, despite knowing it only supports .NET 1.1 and 2.0 versions. The .def file was generated with the required function, but during compilation, I faced numerous errors, causing the system to abort the process. Can anyone suggest a solution to these issues? Thanks, Aji Cherian

Hi, Can someone provide a link to Chris Glazier's video 'Database Access Using ODBC with Visual COBOL'. I believe there are other videos in the same series, but I am not able to find them.   Thanks, Luis

I am trying to use 2 below copybooks.   SGUPTA     COPY "lixmlall.cpy".            == > standard xml copybook T01153     COPY "XXXBUF.CPY".              == > Internal copybook.   I place tdhem just before the linkage section. But kept on getting error like   170651    973767   SGUPTA     XML INITIALIZE                               $   $ >>>>>   1) 0465: E Verb expected. (scan suppressed). >>>>>   2) 0005: I Scan resumed.   170653             SGUPTA     XML GET UNIQUEID    &

We are working with another company to get their product working with ours - and they have written iframes to display their information.  Is there a way to call those iframes within Visual COBOL. P.S. We are only on Version 5.0 of the software - we are well aware that we need to upgrade. We just cannot at the moment. 

I have installed the Microfocus Visual Cobol 9 after downloading the product from the "">www.microfocus.com/.../overview". I have also installed a community edition of Visual Studio 2022 prior to the Visual Cobol install, and I can develop .net applications in it. However I am unable to create any of the "Visual COBOL" template projects. Creating these gives an error in Visual Studio. I cannot even open a COBOL file and when I try to do so, I can see the an error listed below the ribbon(Screen shot attached) in Visual Studio. The error reads as follows "Visual Cobol for Visual Studio does not have a valid License". When I try to install the License following the visual studio link in the error message, I get the error shown in the attached screenshot. Please note that I have already installed the Visual Cobol License Manager and activated the product on the Microfocus Site. How do I get past this installation error and start some coding in COBOL. #VisualCOBOL#COBOL#Installation#lice

Problem Who provides support for the BIS-Express web application generator for Xcentrisity Business Information Server(XBIS)? Resolution   BIS-Express is an application and web service generator designed to work with Micro Focus' Xcentrisity Business Information Server software.  This application generation solution is supported, and distributed, by England Technical Services (ETS). Below is a link to their home page:               http://showcase.netins.net/web/etsinc/index.html   Note:   The standard Xcentrisity BIS product is supported by Micro Focus; however the specific syntax of BIS Express or issues relating to the use of BIS Express are supported by ETS. #BISExpress#RMCOBOL

Hi team, My existing visual cobol is working oracle, i am looking for compatiblity report from cobol analyzer if i connect with postgres database. will it cobol analyzer will provide such report? #VisualCOBOL

I'm running the following environment: VisualCOBOL 9 Patch Update 2Micro Focus VS Code extension 1.0.57VS Code version 1.90.0 on Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows (10 and 11) The outlining feature does not work when a COBOL file is loaded into the editor.  The message "No symbols found in document <filename>.cbl" is displayed. Syntax highlighting is working, however there is no dynamic parsing of the source (I'm not sure if there should be - it's present for other languages such as shell scripts).  Nothiing ever shows up in the "Problems" tab. I seem to recall that code outlining worked for about 10 minutes after I installed the extension, but hasn't worked since.   I can't replicate this by reinstalling the extension. In addition CTRL-clicking on variables to see their definitions, CTRL clicking on paragraph or section names, or hovering over either of them does nothing either. There are no other enabled COBOL extensions installed. In short, the extension seems to b

We are on RMCobol v 12.17 32 bit. We are trying to make sure that LCS can read Environment Variables from a Windows Machine to be used by code. Code should successfully read the following 2 environment variables HOMEDRIVE HOMEPATH Code should concatenate those 2 values, and code should then be able to use that single value as the new location to be used instead of any hardcoded references to the current drive.  I am trying to find the function code for the GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableExA function.  Do either of you have any idea where I can find this? Is it available in 12.17?        GetPrivateProfileInt code is WF03A        GetPrivateProfileString code is WF03B.        GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableExA?

Hello everyone. In a computer with two monitors, is there any way to select through code in AcuBench 8.0 which monitor to display the screen on? Thank you.

Hi, every one I'm having an issue with an Acucobol application where the error shown in the attached photos appears. This error only occurs for one user who connects to the application using an Android tablet and a remote desktop client. The rest of the users who connect to the application via terminal service do not experience this problem, so I believe it must be something related to the tablet's connection. If anyone could provide me with some information regarding this, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you very much.

möchte über ein Programm Midimap aufrufen, das Ausgabvegerät wählen und dorthin Daten schicken.

Recently new rmcobol licence installed and after that when I try to create SOAP style sheets (xsd, xsl etc) recompiling exisiting programs (no changes were made), I get error. So I tried to test as per the document here page 22 - https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/rm-cobol/10/xmltk10.pdf. Program - getstarted.cbl Identification Division.Program-Id. Getting-Started.Data Division.Working-Storage Section.01 Customer-Address.02 Name Pic X(128).02 Address-1 Pic X(128).02 Address-2 Pic X(128).02 Address-3.03 City Pic X(64).03 State Pic X(2).03 Zip Pic 9(5) Binary. then I give - rmcobol getstarted.cbl y  - which runs fine then I give - cobtoxml getstarted customer-address -bv Cobol Object File: /test/getstarted.cobCobol Data Item Name: customer-addressXML Document Names: /test/getstarted.[xsd,xsl,xtl]Options - Schema: XSDError: 12[0] - data item - not found[12] Is there any environment changes needed after installing new rmcobol licence?  In the same p

I am using an FD that has multiple record types.  They are all the same length and each has a 'WHEN' directive identifying the type of record.  When a record is displayed using Alfred (or SQL View), the first record's field mapping is used.  I believe that the documentation states that the first record (or the largest record) is defaulted for mapping the data columns.  This default does not map correctly when there is a different record type - except for "V" for some reason.  Is there a way around this?  Maybe a combination of other XFD directives?  Is there an error in how this is defined? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!  FD record definitions: *(( XFD WHEN XREF-RECORD-TYPE = "X" )) 01 ITEM-XREF-PART-RECORD. 05 ITEM-XREF-PART-KEY. 10 XREF-RECORD-TYPE PIC X(01). 10 XREF-NUMBER PIC X(30). 05 XREF-OUR-STK-ALT-KEY. 10 XREF-OUR-STK-NO PIC X(15).

Already tried both the 16 Alphanumeric / Serial numbers sent from email and the downloaded .XML file , same error  Visual COBOL Product License ERROR #VisualCOBOL

Recently new rmcobol licence installed and after that when I try to create SOAP style sheets (xsd, xsl etc) recompiling exisiting programs (no changes were made), I get error. So I tried to test as per the document here page 22 - https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/rm-cobol/10/xmltk10.pdf. Program - getstarted.cbl Identification Division. Program-Id. Getting-Started. Data Division. Working-Storage Section. 01 Customer-Address. 02 Name Pic X(128). 02 Address-1 Pic X(128). 02 Address-2 Pic X(128). 02 Address-3. 03 City Pic X(64). 03 State Pic X(2). 03 Zip Pic 9(5) Binary. then I give - rmcobol getstarted.cbl y  - which runs fine then I give - cobtoxml getstarted customer-address -bv Cobol Object File: /test/getstarted.cob Cobol Data Item Name: customer-address XML Document Names: /test/getstarted.[xsd,xsl,xtl] Options - Schema: XSDError: 12[0] - data item - not found[12] Is there any environment changes needed after installing new rmcobol licence?&nbsp

Hi everyone. I am working with 3rd party ssystem, that provides a web interface for their services.  Have to use get/put/post for various things.  Their examples use curl.  I tested the connection on my system using curl.  There is an error with the SSL certificate(s) apparently, as curl complains until I add the -k (--unsecure) option.   That's fine, there is no private data, and everything will be inside a vpn.  BUT. When I try to connect using RMNET, I get an error 7.  When I check the NetGetError, the text is: "SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK".  Fine.  That's basically what curl said.  So I tried the NetSSLVerifyPeer command to turn off the verify.  Same error.  (Note: The response-LEN is zero when doing the HttpGet) Flow: CALL "NetInit" GIVING AIMS-STATUS-CODE. CALL "NetSSLVerifyPeer" USING 0 GIVING AIMS-STATUS-CODE. CALL "HttpGet" USING    A

HI -  I am using XML Extension with RM/COBOL. I have below question Current System Programs1 [Listen to Linux Port. Never Temrinate]    === >P1 Calls P2                             ===> P2 Call P3 [P3 Uses XML Extension. Has XML INITIALIZE Function but not XML TEMRINATE]                             ===> P2 Call P4                              ===> P2 Call P5 [[P3 Uses XML Extension. Has XML INITIALIZE Function but not XML TEMRINATE] I want to introduce XML call to program P2 before it calls P3 or P4. Will below lines can cause abend or error:  XML INITIALIZE XML GET UNIQUEID WS-uuid. IF NOT XML-OK DISPLAY "************************************"DISPLAY "!!!!!!!!XML Error Occurred!!!!!!!!" DISPLAY "XML Status: " XML-Status PERF

hello, I have had to install VC 9.0 2022 on a new PC, due to the failure of the previous PC, after installing VS2020 professional 17.1o and Windows SDK location = D:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus Visual COBOL\\Microsoft\\SDK\\10 version = 10.0.19041.0 Microsoft Build Tools location = D:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus Visual COBOL Microsoft version = 14.34.31933. I load VS2022, and no VC options appear in the IDE.I have tried to repair the VC installation, but it gives error 0x8007000a. How should I proceed to have a correct installation? Regards

My new host runs 5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3.x86_64.  I am used to Server Express 5.1 running on an older OS. Can I use Server Express 9.0 on my new Oracle Linux host? Someone told me I can't and need to go with Visual Cobol Development HUB for my development and install Cobol Server for my runtime. Is that the best route to go? I will be installing both on the same host running Oracle Linux 9.3. The current user of Cobol on the older host just executes things via CLI.  No X-Windows. With Visual Cobol Development HUB and Cobol Server he can still do that correct? thanks!   Roy M.

Hi, we are currently migrating a big application from BS2000 mainframe to linux using MF Visual COBOL V9. There are indexed data files that contain 2 identical data sentences (completely identical - indentical primary key aswell) in mainframe. Is there any chance in MF VC to use ISAM files with non unique primary keys? Thanks in advance! Paul#Mainframe#COBOLMigration#ISAM#VisualCOBOL

I have to upgrade my Net Express project into Visual Cobol. So please let me know what licence do we need for Visual Cobol.

On my machine Netexpress will not start correctly when i show with Microfocus License Management Configuration Tool i can see that i had full license by starting netexpress i see a message that windows want to configure Netexpress, by can not do this correctly. I think taht Wise Disk Cleaner or Wise Registry Cleaner had remove hidden license files, but why say Licence Management "Full license" Have anybody a solution? Thanks for help!