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This past weekend I first downloaded the 'Full' version of Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2010 and installed it.  Then I discovered and downloaded Visual COBOL PE V2.2.  I then installed the Personal Edition along with the already installed 'Full' Version but was confused about which one was which and therefore 'Uninstalled' both and then tried to Install the Personal Edition by itself.  The Install kept getting the message: 'A required certificate is not within its Validity period when verifying against the current system clock or timestamp in the signed file.' I re-downloaded the PE version a couple of times and tried to Install it and kept getting the same error message.  I would then UnInstall anything that was installed such as the Visual Studio and try again.  I even tried to install it on a Virtual Machine thinking there was something left in the Register that kept the PE from installing.  I tried to clear out the register by running such softw

I am using JDBC to communicate with Relativity and it seems to work well most of the time but intermittently, seemingly at random, I get the following exception: java.lang.NullPointerException      at relativity.jdbc.RPCInterface.SQLFreeStmtSP(Unknown Source)      at relativity.jdbc.RelativityResultSet.close(Unknown Source)      at relativity.jdbc.RelativityResultSet.finalize(Unknown Source)      at java.lang.ref.Finalizer.invokeFinalizeMethod(Native Method)      at java.lang.ref.Finalizer.runFinalizer(Finalizer.java:101)      at java.lang.ref.Finalizer.access$100(Finalizer.java:32)      at java.lang.ref.Finalizer$FinalizerThread.run(Finalizer.java:190) There seems to be no pattern to when this exception will occur and it seems to occur completely independently of any task that is being performed. I have tried to

Hi I want to pass an array of arbitrary size from one form to another.  The array would contain employee numbers PIC 9(9) and a flag to say whether the employee had been selected. Basically, from the main form the user can press a List... button which calls up a subform.  This subform contains a multiselect ListView which is populated from a flat file of employees.  There could be 1 employee in the file, or thousands, so no limit.  When the user has selected the employees they want and the subform is closed, then the selected employees are passed back to the main form for processing. Currently, I am using the linkage in public methods to pass data between forms, but the size of the data is known.  I know SteveC had a similar problem recently but the complete solution was not provided. I need to know the best way to go about passing the information required back to the main form.  Thank you.

Hallo, has anybody an idea how i can implement e.g. winzip in my applikation.

Hi, We used to capture the data from Screen Area using ACCEPT clause. The variable we defined inside Screen Area like 01 GMD3010A-DATA      05 LINE 04 COL 62 PIC X     USING GMD-PEP. And using ACCEPT GMD3010A-DATA we used to capture the data for GMD-REP. So whenever we are capturing any data from HELP screen we have to pass this to GMD-PEP.  So is there any alternate way to populate the GMD-REP value without MOVE statement. Please advice. #eclipsevisualcobolvariablesviewencoding#VisualCobolwithEclpiseunderSUSE13.1#visualcobolruntimeswitchlinking#eclipseMFcobolcontenttypewithoutextension#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION

Hi, I'm trying to write XML files using copybooks generated from XSD files. Generating the copybook repeats the "namespace is" phrase for all elements.             06 group identified by "group".             07 Item1 PIC X(30) identified by "line1" namespace is "http://.......".             07 Item2 PIC X(30) identified by "line2" namespace is "http://.......".             07 Item3 PIC X(30) identified by "line3" namespace is "http://.......".             07 Item4 PIC X(30) identified by "line4" namespace is "http://.......". The resultant XML file includes repetitions of xmlns="http://......."> for all subordinate elements. <group>   <Item1 xmlns="http://......."&

I got ": Too many hot keys activeCOBOL error at 000A91 in aprogram.acu" error. I checked the acuCOBOL document:http://supportline.microfocus.com/Documentation/AcucorpProducts/docs/v6_online_doc/runtime/run3202.htm I understand that this message can be customized by "TEXT" configuration variable, but I don't know in what condition this message can be invoked? Does anybody know about this error, and how to deal with them? Thanks in advance!

This is code from a C# program: using DevExpress.Xpo;public class Customer : XPObject {    public Customer() {}    public Customer(Session session) :             base(session) {    }XPObject and Session are DevExpress classes used for data binding. In C#, a constructor initializer is the code that comes after a colon in a method definition. My understanding is that ": base(session)" in the overloaded constructor will execute the overloaded constructor in the inherited class XPObject passing it the "session" parameter.  How would you code the above in Visual COBOL ?  I can't find documentation on it.  When DevExpress calls the Customer(Session) constructor, the constructor execution sequence should be: - System.Object.Object - XPObject (Session) - Customer(Session)  which in my COBOL program would be NEW(Session).

Using Extend 9.1.1 (or 9.2) on Windows.  We want to import a text document which contains non-English characters such as ç, é, ã. We can type those characters in Extend, and they display fine, but when we import from a file (created with Excel or even with a text editor), the characters end up being corrupted. I know Extend doesn't support Unicode, and I'm sure the corruption has something to do with that - does anyone know of a way to import such a text file into Extend and have the characters retained? Thanks Tony

Hi, Is it possible in VISUAL COBOL V2.2 to activate the Cursor postion in Screen Section by a simple clieck over the fields. Still now we are activating the Screen fields using TAB or Arrow Key function. Is there any Mouse Click is permissible to capture 9mainly activate the field) the data from Screen Section of Visual COBOL. #visualcobolreturn-code255#VisualCOBOL#VisualCobolManaged#visualcobolruntimeswitchlinking#VisualCOBOLCOBOLJVMCOBOLandJava#COBOL#VisualCobolwithEclpiseunderSUSE13.1#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution

Dear Chris, We stil have the same problema witk ADISCF in AIX 7.1. When we try toa alter the PFKeys funtion  we didn´t have the same that we have in ADISCF for Windows. Por example in Windows we have PF2, PF8, PF2 but in AIX 7.1 We have PF2,  then PF8 ,But here the PF8 Option have diferent  things like Figure enclosed. Please say to Us How to  do the same that we do in Windows  in AIX 7.1 for alter the PFKey Functions.   Regards,   PJM

Can you tell me what the syntax would be for creating an event that can be called later by an event handler? C# example:        public event EventHandler CloseButtonPressed;

Is there any function is avialable in VISUAL COBOL to calculate the Field-Length. We are actually facing one problem like where cursor is blinked on SCREEN-SECTION we are not able to capture the total length of the Cursor. I have tried with X"A7" feature but no luck. Any idea will be highly appriciated.#COBOL#VisualCobolManaged#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution#Eclipse#COBOLOrion

I would like to place a thread lock around the code below but I'm not sure what the syntax would be in Visual COBOL. Can you help me with the syntax?            IF WS-COMM-FROM-PROGRAM > SPACES             ??Lock             PERFORM VARYING WS-PREV-PROG-ENTRY                FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL WS-PREV-PROG-ENTRY > NAV-MAX-ENTRIES                  IF NAV-PROGRAM-ID (WS-PREV-PROG-ENTRY) =                     WS-COMM-FROM-PROGRAM                     MOVE SPACES TO W

I have just started using Visual Cobol in Microfocus Visual Studio 2012. My code needs to read records and update an array named 'ItemsField' in a web service reference file(See attached Word file for layout of the input file and the web service references file). The array I want to populate is described as having  'occurs any' and is named 'ItemsField' in the web service references file. My question is: How do I add data to this array and update the number of occurs?

Hello, Does anyone have a sample AcuGT program that they would be prepared to share, which uses Open Office, or perhaps Libre Office?  Our users don't want to pay for Excel on Terminal Servers. Thanks, Ian#AcuGTOpenOfficeLibreOfficeExcel

Could you please suggest if there any File Comparison Utility Available in VISUAL COBOL 2.2 version. It will be great help also if any such programs can also aviable in this group.#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION#visualcobolreturn-code255#VisualCobolwithEclpiseunderSUSE13.1#COBOLOrion#COBOL#VisualCobolManaged#visualcobolruntimeswitchlinking#eclipseMFcobolconten#COBOLEnterpriseDeveloperSortNavigationExplorer

Problem: This sample was developed with Net Express 5.0: The sample is an 'HelloWorld' one: the service,deployed on MF Enterprise Server, retrieves to the J2SE java client the parameter it received. The zip files attached to this KB are: - a file named NE-50-J2SE-HelloWorldSample.zip  which details, with screen captures, the differents steps of the operation - a file named J2SEHelloWorld.zip which contains the code of the demonstration You'll get in the demonstration: AND the SERVER ( created by Net Express Interface Mapping Toolkit ) part AND the CLIENT part (       - generated by Net Express Interface Mapping Toolkit regards to the Java bean used       - hand-written  client software to call the Java bean Resolution: ============================== 1) Legacy code used for this service: hello.CBL        

We do have a visual COBOL solution(contains 9 different projects) which is accessed from a .net application. While building the Visual COBOL solution in release mode, the 9 dlls for each project is created in bin directory of each project. Can you please provide us step by step procedure for deploying the dlls in the COBOL server. Which in turn .net application can access the Visual COBOL dlls, deployed in the COBOL server. Thanks in advance

I am getting this error on one particular XP SP2 machine, but everything runs fine on other XP and Win 7 machines. I have never some across this before, is it complaining about wrun32 or the .acu program, and how do I get around the problem? For what its worth we are using 8.1.3 runrime

I have a 01 data field defined as external within a program because the data is used by many programs and I did not want to pass it from program to program (this is a .net project).  When I am in debug mode, I can not do a quickwatch on any field in the data record.  I says 'Unable to evaluate expression'.  Can you not view external defined data area?

I saw a post on how to get MF Visual Cobol to print to a USB printer, instead of the default LPT1. However, it was not as descriptive as I would have hoped. Since I have not worked with Cobol since 1995 and went into the business world using Fortran after that class, I never found the need to set environment variables. I also never used MF Cobol before now. The one post states to create a file called cobconfig.cfg and then set the cobconfig environment variable to point to that file. Well, I have tried a couple of ways on my own and could not get it to set the environment variable of cobconfig and work. Any help that someone can provide in getting the cobconfig environment variable to work in MF Visual Cobol for Visual Studio 2012 would be greatly appreciated. I've looked far and wide on the net and have not yet found any specific help. I did get the old program to work via sending the output to a file, but I want to get it to work as origina

Is there any way to generate KeyStroke programatically to move cursor control to the next field. The same feature was handled by the TAB key. Client's requirement is to validate each of the fileds in the screen and if validation success it automatically highlight the next fileds. During validation control is back to the program level but how again is it possible to retrieve the screen with very next field activated. Please help.#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION#COBOL#COBOLOrion#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution#visualcobolruntimeswitchlinking#VisualCobolManaged

We are using XBIS 9.2.0 on Windows, have installed on a couple of different machines successfully. We have set up IIS on many machines over the years without issue - IIS always installs with the root folder as \\InetPub\\wwwroot. Doing our first install at a customer site, and on that computer it seems the default IIS folder is under \\InetPub\\vhosts and not under \\Inetpub\\wwwroot.  However, AcuXBIS still installed under \\InetPub\\wwwroot.  As a result, not even the samples will run for XBIS.  To make matters worse, the server we're installing on is running Windows in German, so wading through error messages and screens using google translator is tedious at best. Google searches trying to understand the use of \\InetPub\\vhosts leads me to believe that IIS is set up with multiple virtual websites, but at bottom, I just need to know how to install XBIS to run in this environment. Can anyone help? Thanks Tony

I am getting this error running on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. I have never come across this before. The application runs on other 64 bit Win 7 machines. Does anyone have any suggestions about what could be causing this? Wrun32.exe application error The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000006). Click OK to close the application