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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

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

After upgrading to Windows 10, I get "CES Daemon Service is not running." how can I fix this?

Hi All: I'm using screen section to browse through a database table and I want to be able to insert a record at any point in time. How do you make the screen section go blank, so you can put new information in? Thanks in advance#insertrecord#screensection

We would like to integrate our application software with a Verifone platform that uses an MX 915 device for credit card processing.  The device communicates via sockets and initial testing on that part of the process seems to work well.  However, part of the full integration has to include "registering" the device with the POS and in order to do that, we have to generate an RSA 2048-bit key that we can send to this device and get back an encrypted key that we will store and send along with the transactions to process. All of this with creating these keys is a bit over what we typically do and we have no experience with this at all.   Can anyone provide any ideas/suggestions/how to even get us started in the right direction? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Rebekah

See what's going on, see the images at  http:\\\\www.mmsis.com.br\\mf\\Acesso1.png and http:\\\\www.mmsis.com.br\\mf\\Acesso2.png       method-id Button1_Click protected.       procedure division using by value sender as object e as type System.EventArgs.           declare mymsg = "This is a message!"           invoke self::ClientScript::RegisterStartupScript(type of self, "yourMessage", "alert('" & mymsg & "');", true)       end method.

Hello, We've installed version 12 of the 64-bit Relativity ODBC client. and have run into a problem where we are unable to retrieve columns.for a very large table.  The error we receive is: [Liant][Relativity][Client][SimbaLNA][Liant][Relativity RM Server][CRDM]Too many columns. Some columns are omitted We are accessing the table via a linked server on SQL Server 2012 (x64).  Even if we modify our query to select a single column (ie select ProblemColumn from TheTable) we still get the message. Is there an option for the driver to return more columns or some other solution? Many thanks, Scott

At very complex queries with WHERE-clauses and joins between any tables I do not get any successful answer by AcuXDBC Server. I get message "Network Connection lost (recv) Unknown error". Can anyone tell me why this exception throwing? I suspect, it is a timeout from (AcuXDBC) System, but where can I change timeout settings? Simple queries without WHERE-clauses and joins work successful. Thanks.#ACUCOBOL9.2.1#AcuXDBC

I need to give a message in a aspx application, for example when the user clicks on a button displaying the message.

I have some data elements defined as external and when I debug the program and try to do a quick watch or add to the watch list the value is not available.  Is this just an issue with external defined items?

HI, In my project i am working on a scenario where a .net wcf is accessing native cobol code through the wrapper class program. The wrapper is added as reference to .NET As of now the wcf is hosted on IIS and when i execute the service it asks the native dll to put at certain location(bin folder of iis\\inetsrv), now i am trying to access the native code from a specific location,other than the location it asks for . I have tried to use the 'PATH' environment variable in the cobol wrapper code to set the path to look for dll but its not working, so anyone have any other idea to access the dll from the specific location. Please help. Thanks Anand

I´m using the VC  2.2.00151 Trial at home to develop small projects that will be inserted in the book I'm writing "Introduction to Visual COBOL .NET" and when I insert parameters directly in the method signature, instead of the procedure division gives error. In version 2.2 Upgrade licensed works perfectly. The trial version does not support this feature?

I'm converting this VB.NET code to Visual Cobol but I'm with difficulty in the declaration: declare a() as binary-char unsigned occurs any = type Encoding::UTF8::GetBytes(SourceText) VB.NET code running Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click    Dim SourceText As String = "1234567890"    Dim a() As Byte    a = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(SourceText)    Dim b As Byte()    Dim c As New SHA512Managed    b = c.ComputeHash(a)    Dim d As String = Convert.ToBase64String(b)End Sub Visual Cobol code with error.  method-id button1_Click final private. procedure division using by value sender as object e as type System.EventArgs.     declare sourceText as string = "1234567890"     declare a() as binary-char unsigned occurs any = type Encoding::UTF8::Get

Following Problem with compile XFD-compileable COBOL program. I have got following code sequence in a FD.       216 $XFD COMMENT Adressenstamm      217 $XFD FILE=SADF      218      219 FD      SADF      220         LABEL RECORD OMITTED      221         DATA RECORD IS SADR.      222       223       224 78        SAD-KN-RECLEN                           VALUE 10000.      225      226 01      SADR.   &nbsp

I am a former COBOL programmer and Systems Analyst looking to get back into coding. I want to sharpen my skills so I have signed up for the Personal Edition. I need to know what version I should load...I am operating on Windows Vista, Service Pack 2, 64 bit and  IE9.The choices are 2010 and 2012. I also need to know what web training is availabe for the Personal Edition. I don't need COBOL training but rather training on how to navigate Visual Cobol.