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I am coding in Eclipse for the first time and running into NEWBIE problems. I have several DISPLAY lines throughout my code and probably should mention that I have "CONSOLE IS CRT" coded in the "SPECIAL-NAMES."  portion of the "CONFIGURATION SECTION."  The DISPLAY lines result in a "DOS like" window opening with only the results of the last DISPLAY command and a "Press Enter to Continue..." message.  Pressing Enter results in the "DOS like" window closing.  Commenting out the last DISPLAY results in only the previous DISPLAY results in the "DOS like" window with the same "Press Enter to Continue..." and the same behavior. I would like to see the results of all the DISPLAY commands somewhere (perhaps in the "Console" tab?) I suspect I have an Eclipse issue rather than a COBOL issue, but, of course, am open to all coaching...

We are running Acucobol-GT runtime 8.1.3.1. When attempting to run it on Windows Server 2012 R2 we get an error. Do you know if this version of Acucobol is supported on this operating system

We are developing our migration from NET EXPRESS to VISUAL COBOL under Visual Studio 2013 using VMs developed with Hyper-V. We are having difficulties communicating with the network printers that are defined to our Win 7 machines. Do you have any suggestions how we can communicate across the VM into the actual network attachments or do we need to redefine the printers within the VMs? Thus far our transition of the Dialog System screens into this environment are working well. Our intention is to go to Web Forms instead of the Dialog screens in the course of this migration. Thank you! Carol

i Installed Visual COBOL personal edition for Visual Studio 2010 on a WINDOWS-7 PC and got this error 26--Clock tamper detection this error occurs when i tried to use the COBOL forms application.  I couldn't get Visual COBOL to work, so i did a Windows restore back to revert back to before installing the product.  Since that time I installed Visual Studio 2012 and tried again installing  vcvs2012_22.exe  the VISUAL COBOL version for STUDIO 2012.i got the same Clock tamper detection (error 26).  I am told by a kind support person that a license is needed and that I have one (he verified this), but that I need the MF License Manager application to apply the license. He was stumped as to what to do next other than to have me post this message.I do NOT have this application on my PC. can some knowledgeable support person one tell me what to install; uninstall, repair,  or otherwise do, to get Visual COBOL  up and running on my machine?#PersonalEdition#not

Hi, I'm new to cobol. I'm writing a small cobol program using screen section. I want the user to be able to push F-5 to get a pop up list for each entry field. I've found only one example on-line and my compiler does not recognize the language ( I'm using Visual Cobol for Eclipse 2.2). It goes as follows:         SCREEN SECTION.       01  ORDER-SCREEN.         { . . . }         03  "Cust #: ".         03  USING CUSTOMER-NO              BEFORE PROCEDURE IS SHOW-CUST-LEGEND              AFTER PROCEDURE IS TEST-CUSTOMER              EXCEPTION PROCEDURE IS CHECK-FOR-LOOKUP. Is this the standard way of capturing function keys, or is there a

With the CALL 'CBL_DIR_SCAN_READ' using dir-handle entry-data   etc.   I receive the date-stamp when the file was modified. But I don’t need the date it was modified, but the date a file (JPG) was created.  Is there a possibility with NETEXPRESS 5.1 to receive the date and time a picture (file) was created? Windows Photo Gallery. gives the possibility to read and change all these tags, but can I do it from within NETEXPRESS? thanks Rolf

Hello, Just wondering if anyone else has run across this. We are running Server Express on Linux. I can enter numerics from the keypad of my keyboard when in the shell but when I bring up a my COBOL program, numbers are not sent when typing them from the keypad. The numbers at the top of the keyboard work fine. I'm running with the Putty emulator and my TERM type is xterm. The xterm setting in terminfo is: infocmp#       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/x/xtermxterm|vs100|xterm terminal emulator,        am, km, msgr, xenl,        cols#80, it#8, lines#25, vt@,        acsc=jjkkllmmnnqqttuuvvwwxx, bel=^G, blink@, bold=\\E[1m,        civis=\\E[?25l, clear=\\E[H\\E[2J, cnorm=\\E[?25h, cr=^M,        csr=\\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\\E[%p1�, cub1=^H,   

Hi, In NetExpress 5.1, is there any way to specify ordering for a Group Box (without having to go through the array and rewrite it)?   For instance, if I wanted to order the contents of the Group Box by customer number... Thanks, Fran De #groupboxordering#sorting

Hi, I am working on visual cobol with below three components: 1. cobol  managed code. 2. wrapper class program 3. .net application. currently i am trying to invoke a method available in cobol from .NET with the help of wrapper  class, but i am facing a error of parameter mismatch as the  cobol dll contains method parameters of  'microfocus.cobol.program.reference' whereas .NET variables are of native .NET types . Please let me know how can i resolve this.

I am looking for an example shows how to store employees pohoto into sql server data base and how to retrieve them and display on the form (.gs) using COBOL thanks#NetExpress5.1#COBOL

Hello. I replaced my test printer software. HP LaserJet P2035 to NPI6ED50E (HP LaserJet Pro MFP M225dw). This printer does not recognize the user orientation and page size. Printed from right to left leaving plenty of space left when the report is smaller horizontally than the size of the paper. Can you give me some suggestions to solve this problem .

Hi In our current project we are using 7 modules of Micro focus COBOL. There are 4 modules which are COM modules and having Compiler directive set as OOCTRL. Rest 3 modules are using Entry Points with DynamicWinAPI. And they all are clubbed in to an DLL. Which is used by C to call COBOL Modules.  Now we are removing C and Upgrading from C to .NET.  Because of this change the above DLL will be consumed by .NET. When we try to Register that DLL with REGSVR32 , We are getting error "DLL was loaded , But the DLLregisteryServer entry point was not found". Do we have to change the existing code? and what needs to be changed? Please suggest what we should do to rectify this problem. Thanks Charan #COMerror#DLLError

Hi  When i try to build a solution in VC 2012. I am getting an error COBOL.DIR directive not found. Can any body help me to resolve that.

Problem Liant products store their license information in a license vault.  It is sometimes necessary to obtain a report on the licenses installed into this vault. Resolution You can determine what licenses are installed on a machine by executing the following command from the "SupportTools" subdirectory of your Liant product installation: suptool1 productview **The output of this command will contain the license serial numbers that are installed, and the use counts for those licenses that are located, in the vault.

I have a SQL stored procedure that requires one input value and returns 2 output values. How do I code this in Visual Cobol?

We have been facing an issue with Characterset in Combo. Since ours is a global application, each of the country stores the information in their local language. The data is shown properly on all GUI objects except for Combo, where we loose the characters of Country. The irony is that they are retrieved from same Oracle table. Can someone please share their thoughts on to address this issue ?

Problem: RM/COBOL can load a configuration file, automatically, when it is executed.  This functionality is, also, available in the Xcentrisity BIS product. Resolution: Xcentrisity Business Information Server allows you to automatically load a configuration file when a service program is executed. The configuration file has to be located in the BIS execution directory and has to have a specific name. To become effective, however, you must restart the BIS Service Engine. Since the commands used to start, stop, and restart BIS differ from OS to OS, please refer to the BIS Users Guide for detailed instructions on how to do this for your platform.UNIX Apache BIS:Default execution directory : /usr/local/liant/bis/bin/Automatic configuration file name: "xbisengd.cfg"Windows IIS BIS:Default execution directory (for version 12): Program_Files_Dir\\Liant\\BISv12 Automatic configuration file name: "xbisse.cfg"*An automatic configuration file, when found, is proc

We are receiving an error from XML Extensions for RM/COBOL that is not in the list of possible errors: Status: 0070Error: 70[0] - in function: AddText Regards

Hello, I got this:  ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION. FILE-CONTROL. SELECT F1 ASSIGN TO "test.dat". I get this error at the last line: "Invalid ASSIGN name" which is "test.dat". I've also tried the whole file path but it still doesn't work. The file is in the same directory as the program file. Anything on this? - Thomas #File#Assign#COBOLFILE

I am doing research in order to use Acu4GL to possibly convert from Vision index files to SQL.  I would appreciate advice from someone with this experience.  Have just started research so any knowledge or suggest places to research would be helpful.  Thank you.

Hi, I am using Net express 6.0 for Dubugging COBOL Oracle program. When I step through the program in Debug mode, it gives error, "173 Called Program file not found in Drive/Directory SQLADR" . Any one please help he in solving this issue.   Thanks and Regards N Raajan #Sqladrnetexpress

tried installing with vce_22.exe and it asks me to install 32-bit oracle java 1.6, what is this? i thought the installer installed everything i needed?

A question about file hander between command line and jvm cobol. environments description os:windows7 dev IDE: Micro Focus Enterprise Developer 2.2 Update 2 for Eclipse projects：there are 2 projects         1,pure java project (1 source only)         2,jvm cobol project(1 source only)  now,execute the program by the below order     command line →　jar(pure java project) → jar(jvm mfcobol project) but below error was happed. -----------------------------------------------the below-is--full test source--------------------------------------------------------------------- ttt.bat file: --start------------------------------- set JDK_PATH = "C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7\\bin"set CLSPATH = %CLSPATH%;"C:\\bat\\xxx\\mfcobol.jar;C:\\bat\\xxx\\mfcobolrts.jar;C:\\bat\\xxx\\mfsqljvm.jar;set CLSPATH = %CLSPATH%;"C:\\bat\\xxx\\test1.jar;C:\\bat\\xxx\\test2.jar;C:\\bat\\xxx\\cblrtsm.dll"%JDK_PATH%\\java -Xms128m -Xmx512m -cp %CLSPA

I am trying to go thru the tutorials  and hit  "No license code for SolarVisualStudio 2010". Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? Thanks

Java program: import java.sql.*; public class javamain { /** * @param args * @throws SQLException */ public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException { // Create a variable for the connection string. String connectionUrl = "jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;" "databaseName=Northwind;user=chris;password=mypassword"; // Declare the JDBC objects. Connection con = null; Statement stmt = null; ResultSet rs = null; try { // Establish the connection. Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"); con = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionUrl); // Create and execute an SQL statement that returns some data. String SQL = "SELECT TOP 10 * FROM Customers"; stmt = con.createStatement(); rs = stmt.executeQuery(SQL); // Iterate through the data in the result set and display it. while (rs.next()) {