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We're running 32-bit AcuCOBOL 9.2.1 for Linux. The RMNET library doesn't seem to have been included. Am I looking in the wrong place? I would expect to find it in the AcuCOBOL 9.2.1 lib directory, as librmnet.so. But there is no file whose name contains rmnet in that directory. Thanks.  #ACUCOBOL9.2.1#RMNet#Linux

Hi, we're two people working on the same system. We both have all files (project .app, cobol .cbl, copyfiles .cpy, etc) on our separate pc/drive. Now, the problem is, that the project file's timestamp is updated even when just opening the project. Thus it is impossible to see which project file is the most recent (since the timestamp of one can be newer (because it was opened), even though no changes to the project itself have been made). We're also using SmartGit to help us track the softwares versions, but this tool can only compare text files (like .cbl and .cpy), but naturally not .app-files. Is there a way to keep the .app-file's timestamp from being updated while only opening the project? Has anybody else had this problem? If yes, how have you solved it? Thanks in advance for all your help!Cheers,Raffi

Hi. I have a problem with a file with the index destroyed. I tried to recover it with the rebuild option but my message is "broken chain of records". If the file generated replacement lose a lot of records. Is there another option that i can use to retrieve the index of this file? Thank you.

Hi,  Most of the time I am using COMponent, thus compiling all my application class in NetExpress Cobol. Currently I am experimenting NetExpress creating/compiling Java class (in Cobol wizard). I installed "Java SE Development Kit 7u51/compilers 32-bit" and so far I could compile the java sample code (cj2Bean.cbl) using NetExpress V3.10 command prompt. Now I started creating Java class in NetExpress on my own using wizard... but when compiling, it says;javac: invalid flag: Files\\Java\\jdk1.7.0_51\\bin\\JAVAC.EXE I already included the PATH of java compiler in my Environment Variables. Any adjustments that I have to make??#Javaclasswizard

When running batch COBOL programs our mainframe provides counts of how many times each file is written, read, etc. This logging is helpful when debugging. Can Visual COBOL Runtime provide any similar logging?

Hi, Can I call a managed VB dll from Cobol Net Express?  If so, how? Here is a sample of how playet, a VB 6 dll, would be called by NE Cobol: $SET OOCTRL( P)                                                            identification division.                                                                              &

I have a program that is included in one Project which is compiled as DLL. This same DLL is called from a lot of other programs.  Every thing Works perfectly, but how can I find out in a simple way in which Project is included the source file?   Of course one way is to open all my APP files and look at the Project window, where this source file appears.  But is there not an easier way, because I have many APP thanks

Busy with ACUCOBOL conversion to Visual COBOL. Using the ACU2VCOB tool First, I'm not a ACU expert. So please bear with me. In the original ACUCOBOL source I got these statements            CALL "LIB$GET_SYMBOL" USING BY DESCRIPTOR "USER_ID"                                                     W5-USERNAME. I do not find information on the DESCRIPTOR keyword. Neither in the helpfiles given with these tools and not in the Supportline. Plus. what should this be changed to to be able to run under Visual COBOL?  Lastly, is there a specific ACUCOBOL to Visual COBOL conversion discussion group in this forum?

We have a Visual COBOL 2.2 program with more than 100 warnings. Visual Studio is reporting 100 warnings then giving the "Too many errors" error (COBH0090). This is related to the MAXERROR compiler directive. The documentation says that the default setting for this compiler directive is NOMAX-ERROR, which would make me think we should never receive this error and should be able to see 101 errors. This is not the case unless we explicitly set the NO-MAXERROR compiler directive. Is there somewhere we are accidentally setting the MAXERROR directive? Or is it possible the Visual COBOL 2.2 default is not what the documentation says? In case it's important, the only compiler directive we are using is CHECKNUM and it is being set in the program using $SET.

Going to implement some sort of progress bar for the users to know something is happening in the backgroud. Looking for a working example if anybody has one handy. Feel free to send it over (zipped). Thanks, Marc mhinrichsen@lmc.net

My program is giving the following error followed by a hard crash when I attempt to write to the system log. ---------------------------Error---------------------------Invalid or missing parameter to "C$SYSLOG"COBOL error at 000046 in csyslog.acu("csyslog.cbl", line 50)---------------------------OK   --------------------------- Here is my source code. Do you see what the problem might be on line 50?  IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. CSYSLOG. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. * Opcodes for C$SYSLOG * These codes were copied from acucobol.def. 78 CSYSLOG-OPEN VALUE 0. 78 CSYSLOG-WRITE VALUE 1. 78 CSYSLOG-CLOSE VALUE 2. * Priority codes for C$SYSLOG * These codes were copied from acucobol.def. 78 CSYSLOG-PRIORITY-SUCCESS VALUE 0. 78 CSYSLOG-PRIORITY-INFORMATION VALUE 1. 78 CSYSL

Dear Friends, Can I Import an XML file, for VSAM files using NetExpress 3.1 is possible?

Dear Friends, How do I set the print density to 10 lines per inch, for example, a dot matrix printer (Epson DFX8000)? I'm using CBL_PRINTER_DEFAULT_PROPERTIES and CBL_PRINT_FILE to print my report. graciously Rogerio Barbosa

Introduction In the Visual COBOL 2.2 - JSP Web Services Tutorial [2] we created a JSP Web Service Application using JVM COBOL and Java in Visual COBOL for Eclipse. If you want to build the application outside of Eclipse as part of a larger automated build infrastructure, then this article shows how to use ant to build the complete application ready to be deployed.   One of the advantages of using ant is the XML file used to control the build process can be the same for Windows and UNIX. The COBOL projects created by Eclipse use ant under the covers and by re-using this, you get the build of your COBOL code for free with no need to maintain a separate set of batch, shell or make files.   Ant also contains tasks which make building the rest of the application straight forward, compiling the Java source code and creating the Web application ARchive file or WAR for short.   This article provides a template build.xml which can be adapted for similar shaped Web Service Ap

Problem Why does rebuild pad with HEX0 as default using this command rebuild ./datei.vari,./datei.fix_blank -o:lseq,rel -r:v1-100,f16p –i Resolution See - Using the manual. The –o:lseq,rel the output is relative, so the default pad character is hex 0. See - Using rebuild. Here is an example of using the rebuild option which controls the pad character. See - Using COBOL. Here is an example of using COBOL, which can handle exceptions like long records Using the manual. The –o:lseq,rel the output is relative, so the default pad character is hex 0. See this reference document for rebuild Using rebuild. Here is an example of using the rebuild option which controls the pad character. This handles large records by creating new records with the extra data. However, if the infile has records greater than your output file, this might not be what you require. This type of record processing should be done using a COBOL program see using COBOL.   Using a file called infile.dat which has 1

I have been a long time NetExpress user and have just moved over to Visual Personal COBOL. It installed just fine, but when I opened Visual Studio 2012 in Windows 8, I got the following error.  Does anyone know what I should do about it? Is there a way to disable the Enterprise Server as I do not need that installed? I need to have this resolved ASAP as I need to learn the new platform, test my existing .cbl programs and put out step-by-step documentation so I can get my students up and running. Monday starts the 4th week of the semester and we were just told today that our NetExpress licenses that are expiring are no longer available for our students and that we all have to move to Visual COBOL.

Problem: Using Oracle with following directives: p(cobsql)  COBSQLTYPE=ORACLE8 CSTART VERBOSE DISPLAY KEEPCBL END-C SQLCHECK= FULL USER= USERID/PASSWORD@CONNECTSTRING ENDP; * CSQL-I-018: Invoking ORACLE8 Precompiler/Translator * CSQL-E-036: Unable to open the precompiler file: "sample1.cs9" * CSQL-E-023: File Status  3/  5 Resolution: When using sqlcheck=full and user=userid/password@connectstring along with many cobsql directives it map be possible to receive the above error if the string being passed to cobsql is very long. Place the Oracle directives sqlcheck & user in the Oracle config file (pcbcfg.cfg) to shorten the list passed  to cobsql. Old KB# 5242

Problem: When multiple users attempt to access a file, they get the following error message: File error 213 on ‘filename’ file Too many locks   Solution: Increasing the value of NFLOCKS resolved the error.

Problem: Attempting to access the Server Express Development License System results in the error: Cannot find where LMF license directory is located   Solution: The Micro Focus Product information listing in the user’s mfpoll showed that the Server Express product was not installed on the machine in question. Rather, Server for COBOL was installed. Installing Server Express (along with the license management system) resolved this problem.

Would anyone have a word.def file for Word 2013 that they could provide?  I have one client using it but we do not have this version so I cannot generate.

j'aimerais savoir comment manipuler les fichiers classiques avec microfocus cobol2.1 j'ai eu pas mal de probleme dans la lecture et l'ecriture sur les fichiers file locked ou record locked sachant que l'application repose sur un partage des fichiers entre divers utilisateurs et qu'elle marchait parfaitement avec l'ancien compilateur

Datagridview - Failed to get the value of a cell after to click on the titles to sort. Error of index. How can I solve this problem?   code: method-id dataGridView1_CellContentClick final private.01 ws-protocolo     pic x(11). procedure division using by value sender as object e as type System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellEventArgs. set ws-protocolo to dataGridView1::Rows::Item(e::RowIndex)::Cells["Protocolo"]::Value::ToString() end-code

We have upgraded to Visual Cobol 2.2.  In Visual Cobol 2.1 I was able to extract a .MSI file from the Cobol Server 2.1 .exe.  In the download area for Cobol Server I see that a .MSM file is available, but I'm not sure how to use that since our Installshield project is not a .MSI project. I've read the documentation that I can find but I didn't see anything about how to get a .MSI file.  There is an example of using the Cobol Server .EXE to install it, but the sixe of the file is much larger that the .MSI file we used in VC 2.1.  The size of the package we have to distribute is a concern.  Is there still a way to get a .MSI file that we can include in our installshield project?

Is it possible to have inheritance  with data between Cobol.Net classes the same way that classes in  OOCobol do? If this isn't possible is there any workaround?

I have a problem with a diacritical mark, for example   ' ë '  ' ö '. I have to make a file with fix length records with diacritical marks. I can make a 2 bytes diacritical mark and than it is possible to make a fixed length record. Now the user wants to have a character based file in fixed length.  Is it possible to make that kind of  file in UTF-8. #netexpress#COBOLserver