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Is it possible to use sub reports with the report composer? I would like to call an existing report to form part of the current report when a certain condition is met. We currently use the preview and do print routine to invoke a report. The report is then viewed in the web browser with the option to print. We are on version 9.12 Any advice will be appreciated.      #ReportComposer#extend#acubench#COBOL

Hi, I started receiving error when I try to create a new project with Visual Cobol on Visual Studio 12. Trying to create Managed  Windows Form project I receive Method 'Message' in type 'MicroFocus.COBOLServicesImplementations.ParseHarvester' for assembly 'MicroFocus.COBOLServices, Version 4.0.....does not have an implementation. And creating a console projects returns an exception.  License is installed and the Eclipse versions works fine. I reinstalled multiple times and also installed updates to Visual Studio 12 but nothing solves the problem. I run on Windows 7. Regards

Hi Community! I have encountered a problem sending data past x"3F" over a serial port in managed code. In the docs I read you need to set the encoding to go past the 7-Bit(??) limit. So I did the following: set serialPort1::Encoding to type System.Text.Encoding::GetEncoding(737) *> tried other values like 1252 as suggested in different forums. But when I do: invoke serialPort1::Write(x"FF") *> it results in 3F being sent. where is Bit 8? Somehow I don't get the catch. Should be simple though. I hope someone has an answer. Regards Rainer

Hi. I put a Selection Box in runtime using the "selnbox" class.I have defined for this object the GainFocus (p2ce-gainfocus) and LoseFocus (p2ce-losefocus) events.This events do not occurs when i use mouse, only when i use TAB KEY.The GainFocus occurs 2 times for the SelectionBox.If I am in selection box and set focus on a entry field, for exemple, on selection box occurs the GaindFocus, the LoseFocus and GaindFocus again. Why?Have a solution? Thanks in advance, Antonio João Primavera do Leste  Mato Grosso Brasil.#netexpress#selectionbox#selnbox

Hello, Has anybody heard about a filter for Doxygen for the Cobol language ? Doxygen can handle Fortran code, it should be possible to configure doxygen to parse cobol code. Any information on that subject ? Regards.

I have a new solution that I am deploying on a server.  I have installed the license and cobol server 2012.  My main program is an exe that I am starting from a workstation which has access to the server thru a share.  When I start the program I get the error message 'fplogin.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close'.  I have run this on my laptop which I am developing the code on and it runs ok.  Any ideas?

I am running NX51 and have code that has issues while compressing data. Essentially the program is compressing previously expanded data that was brought down from the Mainframe in ASCII. This code has been in Production for some years but it appears it has a problem handling data that meets a certain criteria: The below code is to compress data that has a single decimal in the definition of the compressed output. The input expanded data has 3 decimals so before this line is executed for example WS-PACKED-DATA-W-DECIMAL has 0000000000030.000. 01  WS-PACKED-DATA-W-DECIMAL               PIC S9(13)V9(3) COMP-3. IF WS-DECIMAL-PLACES = 1                           COMPUTE  WS-PACKED-DATA-W-DECIMAL =               &nb

When generating xml file from cobol, if the last character of value is a special character, then the tag is not generated properly. Please let me know if any precompiler setting is required.   We are using XML GENERATE.    Tag with error, end tag not prepared correctly :     <PREZIME>MILINOVIÄĽ/PREZIME> Cobol version : version @(#)cob.c       5.1.4.0PRN=RXCTS/AAD:9r.B1.51.09PTI=WrapPack 8PTI=ES

I have a program I'm writing and testing under NE5.1. I have an ISAM file that is to be shared between a number of workstations. This will be achieved simply by mapping a drive letter to something like: NET USE E: \\\\BILLSPC\\C$\\SHAREDORDERS\\ /u=blah blah, etc Each workstation will open a file: E:ORDERS.DAT. This is working well and all functionality tested ok. I need to check what is going to happen if/when the network is down so what I do is: 1. Map the drive 2. Start the system in Netexpress and create some data 3. issue a NET USE E: /D command to remove the drive 4. Within the still-running Netexpress system, run a program that firstly tries to CLOSE this file. At this point, the program simply hangs on the CLOSE. No error is returning, it just hangs. Declaratives are not executed. When I select to stop animating I get a message: Execution of program xyz has been interrupted. This program is not animatable, but you can view the call/perform stack. The cause of the interrupt

I use the API MAPISendMail. How can i declare more then one Recipient?

Hi, I have datafiles formatted using IDXFORMAT"4" and wanted to convert to IDXFORMAT"8" using REBUILD.exe; so basically I will issue a command (under Command Prompt);REBUILD myData01.DAT, myNewData01.DAT /s:MF4 /t:MF8 /d /i /v:500 /e Is this REBUILD command uses EXTFH.cfg?? Or Rebuild application will just do the rest without checking the configuration below;EXTFH=C:\\extfh.cfg Because I am planning to use REBUILD (or create a new IDX8) a datafile... but my EXTFH configuration is still using FILEMAXSIZE=4. Any comment on this? Thanks.#extfh#rebuild.exe#netexpress3.10

I am about to install my first solution in VC 2.2.  Is there a list of the MicroFocus runtime modules that need to be included with my solution?  

I have a solution in Visual Cobol 2012 naïve code that has an internal sort with input and output procedures. I do a perform thru in both procedures. When I debug the code when I go to the input procedure exit, instead of going back to the sort, the code falls thru and does not return.  Ideas?

I need to generate an XML document referencing a unique XML namespace.  There doesn't seem to be direct support for XML namespaces in RM/Cobol XML Extensions.  I may be able to simply use a default namespace for the outgoing document, but it looks like I will definitely have to handle the namespace prefix in the incoming response document.  Is this something I will have to do using XSLT?  Or is there another way to handle this issue?

Is it possible to run native INT's on Windows XP?   I can run the INT on a Windows 7 box with no issues, but when I try to run the same INT on XP I get an error:   run.exe is not a valid Win32 application. Thanks!

Whether Net express 5.1 and Mainframe express 3.1  is compatible with windows 7?

Using RM/Cobol 12.08 on Linux (RHEL 2.6...).  Getting started here using XML Extensions. Just started working through examples in Users Guide. Getting the following error when running sample program trying to export the data record, CUSTOMER-ADDRESS, to XML. Though it might be an issue with differences in case between record name, program name and parameters passed to the EXPORT command but have tried the various permutations with no success. What is wrong here? Code:    559                   *   561    000078>0<           CALL "XMLExportFile" GIVING XML-Status USING   562                            CUSTOMER-ADDRESS   563   &n

Problem: A COBOL program is writing data to a Microsoft Access file using Acu4GL for ODBC, version 9.2.1. At the first attempt, the runtime receives a 9D status and the following error may be found in the trace file: OdbcOpenConnection SQLConnect, pdsn = 'yourDSName', puid = '' Leaving, SQLAllocHandle OdbcOneInfo: State: HY010, Native Error: 0 '[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Function sequence error' Setting f_errno = 19 Leaving, error Leaving, OdbcOpenConnection A1 A2Leaving, error>>>file status = 9DFile error 9D on yourVisionFile yourDSName is the name of the ODBC Data Source. This error has been reported using one of the following 32-bit ODBC drivers:- Pervasive ODBC Engine Interface 10.31.40.00- MS Access 2010 (Microsoft Access Driver  14.00.7010.1000) Resolution: This issue has been fixed in release 9.2.2. Contact your local account manager and ask for the upgrade. ---------------------------------------------------Incident referen

Can someone please post an example project that has a report with a full page watermark?  I am using Bench to create reports but am having no luck in getting watermarks to appear in the reports. Thanks

Hi  I'm a newbie to COBOL and netexpress    I have installed netexpress 5  and oracle 11g XE on windows XP OS. I need to write small programs like getting data from database and use it in the COBOL program. I'd like to know what are the things I need to configure,install to make connection b/w netexpress and oracle 11g got some information like below.  environment variables SET COBCPY=SET COBDIR=SET COBIDY=SET DB_USRID=SET DB_PASSWD= in program EXEC SQL CONNECT :WSH-USER-INFO IDENTIFIED BY :WSH-PASSWD END-EXEC.  many thanks  #oracle11gXE#NetExpress5.0

Hi folks, I should to build a connection between AcuCobol and Tcl via named pipes on the Windows platform. I have succesfully written a server part and the client part in the Tcl to be sure that the named pipe processing is running okay. Now one part (from case to case as server or client) should run in AcuCobol. In the AcuCobol documentation like "A guide for interoperating with Auccobol", Chapter 6.6.3 there are some sentences like: " Named pipes can also be used on Windows systems. You create Windows pipes with the CreateNamedPipe( ) API. You can then use the CreateFile( ) API to access the other end of the newly created named pipe." But I had no success with it. So I ask for an example what shows what DLL must be loaded, how to create, connect, write or read the pipe. The best way with the displaying the actions like my example down. Thank you very much. Vaci #-----------------------------------------------------------------------       # pips

Hello friends, I have a Server 2003 machine with Server 5.0 installed on it. Since my current development machine has Express 5.1, i was receiving  the following error when trying to run my executables: community.microfocus.com/.../20278.an-executable-fails-to-locate-codeset-in-cblrtss-dll.aspx So i installed Server 5.1 on my Server 2003. However the problem persists? Is it possible to utilize both Server 5.0 and 5.1 on the same server? I did not uninstall 5.0 yet.

Problem Beginning with ACUCOBOL-GT Runtime 7.x, Entry Fields are drawn on the screen with slight differences in height each time a newer runtime is used. This may cause display issues, mainly when a screen contains a lot of graphical controls which have 3-D style and Windows Native Look and Feel.  Resolution A bug was introduced in release 8.0 in the calculation of Entry-Field sizes when 3-D and Native Controls are used.This has been fixed in 9.0.1 by ECN-4071. Later, a new fix has been developed in release 9.1.1 (ECN-4135) to help keeping the Entry Field size coherent after any runtime upgrade. This fix introduced a new configuration variable, V80-3D-ENTRY-SIZE. When set to TRUE, size calculations for Entry Fields are done as they were in 8.0.When set to the default value of FALSE, it will cause Entry Fields to be sized as they were in 7.0. --------------------------------------------------------------------Reference incident numbers: 2543148, 2681996.

Problem: A javascript error may occur opening a html web page in a Web-Browser control. On the contrary, no error is shown navigating the same web page using a browser outside the ACUCOBOL-GT runtime. Is there a way to bypass these errors, either programmatically or setting some value in the Registry of the client machine? Resolution: The WEB-BROWSER control used by ACUCOBOL-GT runtime is based on Microsoft Internet Explorer.It provides the same functionalities as the browser itself, but executed with restricted permissions and backward Compatibility View. This may cause situations where scripts present in the web page may be blocked or return script errors. It is possible to avoid these errors by removing the backward Compatibility View for the WEB-BROWSER control. This can be done setting the following key in the Registry of the Operating System.If the browser is a 64-bit Software, search for this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\MAIN\\Featur

Problem: Trying to relink Oracle's Instant Client into ACUCOBOL-GT 9.x.x gives the following error: make: *** No rule to make target "oraoci.o", needed by "libruncbl64.so". Stop. What is the cause of it?Is Instant Client supported in release 9.x.x of extend suite? Resolution: This item happens to be a configuration issue. To resolve, please follow the following steps. Configuring Instant Client. ------------------------------------- Download the basic versions from the Oracle web site.i.e.: basic-10.2.0.5.0-linux-ppc64.zip for Instant Clientsqlplus-10.2.0.5.0-linux-ppc64.zip for the sqlplus tool Create a directory to contain these files and unzip them. Set an environment variable $ORACLE_HOME to point to this directory. i.e.: export ORACLE_HOME=/home/usr/oracle In that directory create a "bin" subdirectory and move all the files into it. To simplify making connections with ACUCOBOL runtime, use TNS_ADMIN. Create a directory $ORACLE_HOME/network/