Rocket® COBOL

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 21 June 2011]Compared to Net Express 5.0 the generated proxy now supports a username and a password parameter, unrelated to the supplied wsdl. What use can be made of these parameters?

Is there away to install the Visual Cobol documention into the Visual Studio 2012 IDE? I have downloaded 2 files from the MicroFocus website, one has a .jar extention and the other a .chm extension but I can't figure how to install either one into the IDE. The webbased training shows it installed in Visual Studio 2010 but 2012 is different.   Thanks

Does anyone know of a way to have a variable occurs clause in the screen section. Example :  old method                05           OCCURS 15 TIMES.                     new method              05           OCCURS WS-MAX-LINES TIMES Where WS-MAX-LINES TIMES is a field in working storage defined as PIC 9(2).

I am going through the Web based training. In module 1 Visual Cobol Getting Started there are 3 DEMO's listed in the table of contents, but when I select any of them nothing happens, the area to the right of the screen is blank. Am I missing something?   Thanks

I don’t get the correct format when binding a decimal value in a DataGrid Column with ConverterCulture=de-CH. I think that the resulting format is correct for Germany but not for Switzerland. Can anybody help?

Hello - we're considering a webinar series focusing on OO COBOL for use in .NET and JVM. We'd look to start from the ground up, covering basic concepts through to UI modernization.  If you'd attend such a webinar series please state that in the attached poll. Many thanks [Poll]

The default port for acuserve is 6523 is anyone aware of there being issues with a Windows 2012 not recognising port numbers greater than 6000? the configuration line for the data uses @192.168.1.12:d:\\data\\lfiles  where the IP address is the address of the main Network card.  The system returns a 9D103 error.  if I launch Acuserve and do a query on the Ip address and port 6523  I get a Socket Error 10060. BUT if I use the PPP Adaptor RAS IP address then everything is okay?? Any help greatly appreciated Graham  

I have a subprogram that uses the functions             call-convention 66 is dynamicWINAPI             call-convention 74 is cc74 but to include it in .NET project has an error             call cc74 'FindFirstFileA'                 by using reference findFileName                       by reference WIN32-FIND-DATA                 returning fileSearchHandle How to solve this problem?

On running ./cobsje -v, inside $COBDIR/bin, I am getting the following error message: "Sorry unable to load libcobjvm_sun_160_64 If libcobjvm_sun_160_64 is on shared library PATH, then ensure'libjava' and 'java' are found on the PATH/Shared Library PATH."   My system details: OS : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 64 bit COBJVM=sun_160_64JAVA_HOME=/oracle/ORMB_23/jrockit-jdk1.6.0_33-R28.2.4-4.1.0 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/oracle/ORMB_23/jrockit-jdk1.6.0_33-R28.2.4-4.1.0/jre/lib/amd64:/oracle/ORMB_23/jrockit-jdk1.6.0_33-R28.2.4-4.1.0/jre/lib/amd64/server://oracle/ORMB_23/jrockit-jdk1.6.0_33-R28.2.4-4.1.0/jre/lib/amd64/native_threads:/oracle/ORMB_23/ORMB/DEMO/runtime:/opt/SPLcobAS51/lib:/oracle/ORMB_23/jrockit-jdk1.6.0_33-R28.2.4-4.1.0/jre/lib/amd64:/oracle/ORMB_23/jrockit-jdk1.6.0_33-R28.2.4-4.1.0/jre/lib/amd64/server:/oracle/ORMB_23/jrockit-jdk1.6.0_33-R28.2.4-4.1.0/jre/lib/amd64/native_threads:/opt/SPLcobAS51/bin:/opt/SPLcobAS51/lib:/oracle/ORMB_23/ORMB

I'm starting the progress of migrating RM Cobol (Linux) to RM Cobol/Visual Cobol(Linux) with Eclipse (Windows) I've discovered the option to set the compiler directives in a file cobol.dir and have that control some of the compile, build and file options. I was wondering what is the compiler directive for the cobol.dir to tell it to use RM. I know its completely lazy, because I can change the Dialect in the Build Properties ... but I'm intending of doing somewhere north of 1600 programs, and anything that will allow me to move these from RM with a Text DE to RM with a Visual IDE would be helpful. I know my cobol.dir is working because I've moved the idxformat"21" to it for RM File access, as opposed to having the set command in the programs. Any tips for how to accomplish this ... any warnings for doing it this way? Long Term the plan is to move from RM Text DE to RM Eclipse to VC Eclipse ... but for now I need to learn Eclipse and start using it regularly which will involve me gett

Hallo, i use NetExpress 5.1 - i have set the CHECKNUM directive in my Project. If i rebuild the Project 136 Programmes are compiled correctly  - 1 Programm creates the Error. I have not found a description of this Error in NetExpress Help. Does anybody know, what this error means. Thanks, Thomas

Hello, I have VS6, VS 2008, VS 2010, VS 2012 and VS 2013 on Windows 7 Ultimate computer. After installing Visual COBOL PE for VS 2012 and when I open VS 2012 Pro, I get this error: This only happens in VS 2012. I can open and create new solutions and everything seems to work otherwise. I tried Googling and searching for a solution and could not find an answer. Does anybody know how to get rid of this error? Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks, Tony

We are about to upgrade all our users ( -500) from the 8.1 run time to 9.2.3. I dont expect any problems, but because of the number of users involved, I just want to check. Is anyone aware of any possible problems running applications produced by the 8.1.3 compiler with the 9.2.3 run time? 

Hi Everybody, I downloaded the VisualCobol Academic Courseware and couldn't run the COBOLClass to extract the sample files. Any help would be appreciate it.

Everytime I try to install the Visual COBOL, I encounter the following error 0x80070643 (This application requires 32-bit Oracle Java 1.6 or later. Plase install Oracle Java and then run this installer again.). I have the following installed versions (1.7 and 1.8) and working properly, still the error persists at the time of installation. Português: Toda vez que tento instalar o Visual COBOL, me deparo com o seguinte erro 0x80070643 (This application requires 32-bit Oracle Java 1.6 or later. Plase install Oracle Java and then run this installer again.). Tenho as versões (1.7 e 1.8) instaladas e funcionando corretamente, mesmo assim o erro persiste na hora da instalação.#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION

When I try to install Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2010, I keep getting an error that says 0x800713c - Asia. Any ideas how to fix this.#visuastudio#error13filenotfoundvisualcobol#help#0x800713ec-Asia

The PadRight() method for strings only seems to work with hard coded numbers. 01 str1 as string value "hello". 01 str2 as string. set str2 to str1::PadRight(10)   *> this works fine declare pad as string = 10 set str2 to str1::PadRight(pad)   *> this doesn't work - no trailing spaces in returned string Am I doing this wrong or is this a bug?#stringspacespadding#VisualCobolManaged

Dears, I have a COBOL program which would perform threads and call C function defined in direct.c  and the C function would call usleep() internally. As my understanding, C usleep() would suspend current thread only. But I found the C function would block other thread in COBOL, ie 'perform thread' So, I write a simple C function just call usleep() and relink runtime. The behavior is the same as I expect. COBOL call C usleep() would block other COBOL thread. If I replace the C fuction to C$SLEEP, the COBOL threads would run normally. My environment is AcuGT v9, AIX 7 64 bit Thanks & Regards, ARIEN

Dears, I am trying to integrate message-driven API into COBOL. Could I define a  event which would be triggered by C? Then accept it like keyboard/mouse events. I have tried COBOL call C , then C callback COBOL. But it does not work, because AcuGT does not support PROCEDURE POINTER  which I could pass to C from COBOL. The environment is GT v9, AIX/Linux 64 Thanks & Regards, ARIEN

I was a COBOL-programmer between 1989 and 1995Started with MF COBOL / Eclipse a few days agoGot strange behaviour and can not find any explanation in the manuals/websiteJust some test program to get the COBOL-feeling again ...Input is ASCII TXT file on MS-Windows 8.1 = 13 chars CR/LF = 15Output of first line is 13 chars CR/LF = 15following records are 5 spaces 13 chars CR/LF = 20First line of output is correct data (13 chars) but record length = 15, not 20 as supposed to be by the record description outfile-record   (part A and B)Why ? Best regards,J.M. Lietaer Input is  (data CR/LF = 15 chars) test line 001test line 002test line 003test line 004test line 005 CR/LF Output is  (data CR/LF = 20 chars) test line 001     test line 002     test line 003     test line 004     test line 005 5 spaces and CR/LF COBOL -program is ... ****************************************************************** IDEN

How can i connect to a database and update its tables from my AcuCobol Program?

Hello, when using embedded SQL in JVM-Cobol I do have the problem that most of the existing Cobolsources (> 8000) do not have the "FullQualified"  Tablename in the FROM Clause of their SQL-Statements. With "native" Cobol it takes the username as the default Schema Qualifier. And if this is not sufficent it is possible to set QUALIFIER (as an SQL-Compiler Option). This is not working with managed Cobol anymore.  I do want to avoid the need to change all SQL-Statements to fully qualify the tablename.  Does anybody have the same problem and if yes .... maybe a solution ? Kind regards Michael#SQL#VisualCOBOL

www.youtube.com/watch

We want to show the possible printer tray names and try to use DeviceCapabilities from winspool.drv.If I enter the  debugger and step over the DeviceCapabilities-call it works perfectly - again and again as long as I stay in the program.If the call is executed without entering the debugger I get a "memory access violation".Here is the code:       01            WK-WINSPOOLDRVJN  PIC X(01).       01            WK-TRAYTABELLE.           02        WK-TRAYSATZ       OCCURS MAX-PAPER-TRAYS.            03       WK-TRAYNAME       PIC X(24).       01&nb

Hello, I am trying to download the COBOL compiler but never received an email with a link.  Also the Support Line seems to be down.  Thank you for your assistance.