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Micro Focus License Administration: Activating your License If you have received a 16-digit authorisation code to license your product, you will need to activate this by authorising it through the Micro Focus License Administration tool. Automatic Authorisation: An internet connection is required for a successful automatic activation. Enter the authorisation code into the ‘Enter authorisation code’ field in the License Administration tool and click on authorise. The License Administration Tool will attempt to connect to the authorisation server. If activation is successful, a message in green will appear stating ‘license(s) added successfully’.   Manual Authorisation: If the activation is not successful a message will appear in red: Authorization failed.If the error message reads that the authorisation code is exhausted, it means it has already been installed on a machine and cannot be used again. If it states that the code is invalid, there are a number of possibilities. It cou

Micro Focus License Administration: Activating your License If you have received a 16-digit authorisation code to license your product, you will need to activate this by authorising it through the Micro Focus License Administration tool. Automatic Authorisation: An internet connection is required for a successful automatic activation. Enter the authorisation code into the ‘Enter authorisation code’ field in the License Administration tool and click on authorise. The License Administration Tool will attempt to connect to the authorisation server. If activation is successful, a message in green will appear stating ‘license(s) added successfully’. Manual Authorisation: If the activation is not successful a message will appear in red: Authorization failed.If the error message reads that the authorisation code is exhausted, it means it has already been installed on a machine and cannot be used again. If it states that the code is invalid, there are a number of possibilities. It could be t

Micro Focus License Administration: Revoking your License If you wish to move your permanent license from one machine to another you will need to revoke your license on the original machine. This will release the license so that you can reinstall it.Please note that once an authorisation code has reached its activation limit, it cannot be reused for rehost purposes. A revoke must be carried out to release the license. This process is for those who have authorisation codes, rather than Pre-Authorised licenses. Click on the Revoke button beside the license that you wish to remove. On the next screen confirm that you would like to revoke this license. The system will connect to the server and release the license. If this is successful, there will be a message in green: Licenses revoked, and a new authorisation code will be displayed for you to use on the new machine. If the Revoke process fails, an error message will appear: Click on OK and the license manager will display your License

Micro Focus License Administration: Setting up a License Server If you have received an authorisation code for a concurrent license, you will need to install this on a license server. For further information on how to activate your license, please view the activating your license video. Once the authorisation code has been activated on the License server, you will need to point your client machines to the license server. Please ensure that the Micro Focus License Administration tool is installed on each of your client machines. -          On the client machine, start the License Administration tool. -          Click on Options| Advanced Configuration -          The License Server field will be showing the IP Address: 127.0.0.1 which is the local host. -          To set up a connection with the license server

I have an acubench report template set up with an image on the document as a place holder for a user signature. This must be populated with the appropriate bitmap when the document is created (ie: the bitmap for the specific user). How do I soft-code the bitmap property on the report image so that I get the correct signature on the document?

We are having problem executing a programa compiled with Visual Cobol 2.2 and preprocessed with ProCobol. We are not using neither Eclipse nor .NET environment development. We have found in this ORACLE  URL: https://community.oracle.com/thread/466190?start=0&tstart=0 that the solution is use  the compiler flags "-C IBMCOMP". We tested this, but do not work. The problem occurs when trying to connect to the database. We are blocked and We don't know what can we do. Can anybody help us?

Procobol gives the next error: Pro*COBOL: Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production on Tue Oct 7 16:59:46 2014 Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved. Open file: /MNG/DESA/VFUENTES/ATS/TST1F830.sksError at line 0, column 1 in file /MNG/DESA/VFUENTES/ATS/TST1F830.sksPCB-S-00400, Encountered the symbol "<end-of-source>" when expecting one of the following:    . , END-EXEC NOWAIT_ ORDER WAIT FOR @The symbol "END-EXEC" was substituted for "<end-of-source>" to continue. On line 0 (zero. The input file was produced by CP preprocessor. This is the only error produced by Procobol precompiler. Any idea? 

Problem: From Oracle's SQL*Plus prompt the following is entered to run a procedure: SQL> EXECUTE MYPROCEDURE('my data'); PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. The procedure simply updates a table with the new data, and it runs without error. When the COBOL program passes the same statement to the SQL.ACU program an error occurs about being invalid. This is the relevant portion of the runtime trace file:  Try loading 'SQL.ACU'... SQL.ACU loaded ora_execute: ORACLE EXECUTE : execute MYPROCEDURE('my data'); ERROR CODE = [900] ORA-00900: invalid SQL statement   Resolution: To execute an Oracle Procedure, the SQL command passed to SQL.ACU must use the BEGIN… END; syntax rather than EXECUTE: BEGIN MYPROCEDURE('my data'); END; Note that only procedures that do not return any data may be executed by calling SQL.ACU.

We just upgraded to netexpress 5.110.0022 and now it appears I can no longer debug my dialog.  Use to be when it was called I could substitute DSGRUN with DS and it debug the dialogs behind the screens. Now (and I tried several screens), I get "Execution of the program DSOO had been interrupted.  This program is not animatable, but you can view the call/perform stac..  The cause of the interupt was:114.  Attempt to access item beyond bounds of memory (Signal 11). I hope this is something I need to change somewhere and not a problem with the new version.#DSGRUN#dialog#DS#114

Current we are facing one issue. As per client requirement we have to create a file having record length 102729. But as per Microfocus Guide line Run Time Limits of File Size should not me more than 64K. Is there any alternate method to access the files having more than 64K of length. Please advice.#eclipsevisualcobolvariablesviewencoding#eclipseMFcobolcontenttypewithoutextension#Eclipse#rebuild#COBOLFILE#RMCOBOLfiles#visualcobolruntimeswitchlinking#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution#COBOL#buffer#COBOLOrion

Problem: Rather than using the SQL Server lock table the application uses the Vision lock file which is specified in the configuration variable A_MSSQL_VISION_LOCKS_FILE.  When the program runs it crashes on the first attempt to open a SQL Server table.  This is seen in the trace file:  opening data segment (#0): Lock4GL.dat   Alt lockfile [Lock4GL.dat] error 1 Resolution: The configuration variable A_MSSQL_VISION_LOCKS_FILE must be set to include the complete path and file name.  In this case the path was omitted and it specified only the file name.  Adding the path to the file name will resolve the error.

My English is very poor, but I try. I tried version 9.2.3 and have problems with headers grids, if the column is numeric, the title appears only if it is a number. Is there any "ecn" to fix this?, How do I get? Thank you very much.

Problem: When the user opens an elevated Net Express command prompt by right-clicking on 'Net Express 32-Bit Command Prompt' and clicking on 'Run as administrator', the command prompt session is created with the following error: 'createnv.bat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file. The createnv.bat file is the script to set up the Net Express environment variables, and in this case, the script could not be executed. Resolution: Behind the Net Express 32-Bit Command Prompt shortcut, it is actually launching:C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\cmd.exe /k createnv.bat In this same shortcut, you will notice that the Start in field is to specify the current directory as "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus\\Net Express 5.1\\Base\\Bin\\" In other words, the createnv.bat is executed from "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus\\Net Express 5.1\\Base\\Bin\\" When running this shortcut as administrator, Windows fo

PROBLEM In the AcuLocks table, the column Lockpid contains the SQL Server Process ID or SPID which is lockinga record. How can the owner of the Lock be determined ? RESOLUTION If SQL Server 2012 is running, then open the SQL Server Management Studio. On the left hand side in the 'Object Explorer' right click on 'Activity Monitor'. This displays all the current processes running on the server. Other methods:-   Open 'New Query' and type 'sp_who2', This gives the same display as the 'Activity Monitor'. Each process shows the 'SPID' with information including the Login and Host Name. Match the LockPid to the process running that has the matching SPID. Execute the stored procedure 'sp_who'. This gives the spid, username and hostname of every connection. Reference the spid associated with the lock. For more information, execute this statement: select * from sysprocesses where spid = nn This wil

I have Visual COBOL Personal Edition with Visual Studio 2012, running on Windows/8 I have set up a Project with several programs in it When I Build the Project it tries to compile each source member within the Project And it comes up against the 2200 Procedure Division line limit fairly easily If I have, say, 10 programs in a Project and I change one program, how can I just compile/prepare that one program Is it possible?

PROBLEM When installing AcuCobol, this error message occurs : "This installation package is not supported by this processor type." RESOLUTION AcuCobol 64 Bit cannot be installed onto a Windows platform with a System Type of 32 Bit.   Windows 32 bit                 Acu 32 bit    correct Windows 32 bit                 Acu 64 bit    wrong Windows 64 bit                 Acu 32 bit    correct Windows 64 bit                 Acu 64 bit    correct

Problem AcuCobol is not available for the Mac OS X operating system Resolution Micro Focus does not support AcuCobol on the Mac OS X operating system For a Mac which is setup to dual boot into Windows, then we expect AcuCobol to run normally. For a Mac which is setup to run Windows in a virtualized environment  (i.e. Parallels or VMWare Fusion) then we expect AcuCobol to run normally, however Micro Focus currently does not offer support for any errors in such an environment.

Problem AcuXDBC error message - 'Vortex (simple) SQL Interface has stopped working' This occurred when running 'asql' for example with the following statement: - select * from table; Resolution The problem appeared after AcuXDBC V9.1.1 and was resolved in AcuXDBC v9.2.1. This was related to our AcuXDBC Trifox 3rd Party product. Please upgrade to our latest AcuCobol/AcuXDBC version.

PROBLEMS The AcuCobol source program appears to compile but there is no runtime object program created RESOLUTION The problem in this case was that the compiler license (ccbl32.alc) had the 'Restricted Compiler' license set on. Creating a new compiler license with the 'Restricted Compiler' setting 'set off' resolves the issue

Hi, when I try to start debugging with Visual Cobol Personal Edition (VS2012) I get "Unable to start debugging" (critical error). Someone else got the same error? Some idea before trying to reinstalling the product?. Claudio      #debugging

We are having problem to compiling Visual Cobol 2.2 with SQL embedded (Oracle). We are not using neither Eclipse nor .NET environment development. We are compiling using a script, setting de compiler directives into the program using $SET USE statement. According with the documentation we separate de directives into two files. Within the program the SET statements appear so:       $SET USE"/MNG/DESA/VCFG/VCDirecSQL.dir"      $SET USE"/MNG/DESA/VCFG/VCDirectivesP1.dir" : first file includes: p(cobsql)  csqlt=oracle8 nomakesyn  end-c comp5=no sqlcheck=full mode=oracle dbms=V8 varchar=yes unsafe_null=yes close_on_commit=no end_of_fetch=1043 dynamic=oracle type_code=ansi USERID=CBL_OWNER/cobol2014@LBDCOB01 endp second file with the rest of the compiler directives. When we try to compile, we receive the next message:     2$SET USE"/MNG/DESA/VFUENTES/ATS/TST1F(·=.CBL*  53-S********

I have been using Net Express 4.0 for many years and it is an excellent product I want to be able to do the same with the new Personal Edition of Visual COBOL that I have on Win/8 I am at the stage where I can dbl-click a .cbl source code member and Vis CBL starts up and I can edit But I cannot see how to compile and then to run In Net Express 4.0 the red check mark compiles the current source code and creates a .int member if the compile is clean The I can set to run that program through 'Activate/Settings' and then click the running man in black and the program runs These are steps I cannot find how to do with Visual Cobol P/Edit Can someone please give me a starter on this Once I can run a simple batch style program under VC P/Edit I can then delve into the manuals and get it to talk to the screen, etc    

HI, I have many question to post because I returned to Cobol years later. The most important question regards the database pre-compiler. In particular: 1) With EXEC SQL Can I set isolation level and begin transaction ? 2) How Can I test if an insert or updated does not succeed because of constraints violations? 3) If I set autocommit disabled in SQl properties can I use commit and rollback ? 4) To set a null value it is sufficient move -1 to :name-fileld-null  ? Claudio  #EXECSQL

Problem: Installing Net Express 5.1 Update (or WrapPack) fails with the following error: Error 1305. Error reading from file C:\\Windows\\Installer\\xxxxx.msi. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it. Resolution: This problem occurs when the SYSTEM account does not have a full permission on the folder that the installation was launched from. By default, the SYSTEM account is granted full control to all files on local NTFS volumes. If Net Express 5.1 Update file is located on a network drive, you might want to copy it to your local drive, such as in C:\\Users\\YourID\\Downloads or C:\\Users\\YourID\\Documents where the SYSTEM account has full control.

Hello. I`m using Acucobol-Gt Thin client 80, and it`s saying: "conection failed"-"Connection to server refused"When I try to log on from some of my clientpc`s. The odd thing is that 1. W7 ok. 1 XP, ok. 1 w8.1 ok. 1 W7 refused. 1 w8.1 refused.The only differense is the brand of Pc. HP seems to be the best.I have a HP server running W server 2012R2. Is this a known issue? Regards Guffen#ThinClient