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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

Does anybody know if there is som bug in the CBL_PRINTER_DEFAULT_PROPERIES NetExpress 3.11. Look at the portion of the code:                 length of move-Default Properties                                                                       to pr-len                 256 moves to pre-papersize                 add p-paper-size to Default-Properties-Flags            &nbsp

Hi, We are seeking an experienced ACU COBOL Analyst/Developer with customer facing experience to work in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Can anyone help out with this please?

Hello friends, While updating a few programs to use OPEN EXCLUSIVE, i've seen that sometimes (not always) the File Status 32 will pop up and the program will not execute. Now i've elected to ignore 32, and the program runned without a flaw. This is what i've come accross about FS 32: "Too many Indexed files opened. This can also happen when a sequential file is open for input and an attempt is made to open the same file for output.(Run Time System (RTS) message by Micro Focus)." 1 - Should i really ignore FS 32? 2 - Is a simple CLOSE statement enough for a file with OPEN EXCLUSIVE? If not, it would make sense since the same files were opened prior in another program as input, and in this one in output. How should i proceed to close them?#NetExpress5.0#COBOL

I'm calling managed code from native.  The managed code displays a "Please wait" dialog using the ShowDialog method and then does some processing.   When the processing is complete, I do the Close method on the form and return to my native code.  I'm starting a thread to do the processing then showing the "Please wait" form and am using a Timer component to determine when processing is done so I can close it and exit back to my native code which uses Dialog System for the UI. After closing the form,  the text on the underlying native Dialog window is obliterated.  The text returns if I refresh the window but I can't do this because I'm calling the managed code from some other program.  This is leaving a blank rectangle on my Dialog System screen, which is the same size as the Windows form. Is there a way to prevent this from happening ?#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution

I want to convert my program that currently uses EXTFH to FHREDIR and make use of the Fileshare transactions.  The doc says that to start a transaction: A transaction starts when your program performs the first update operation (WRITE, REWRITE or DELETE) on a file which has the WITH ROLLBACK clause defined in its SELECT statement after: The file is opened A COMMIT or ROLLBACK statement is executed I am trying to figure out how to set the FCD to have the equivalent of that WITH ROLLBACK in a select.  I've looked through the various FCD settings and don't see it so far.  Please help if you can.#NetExpress5.0#fhredir

We are an academic institution utilizing Visual COBOL for a class... Description: While testing product for academic use installed license on Windows 7 and now cannot revoke the license from license manager. Ger a "Revoke failed"  Also received the following pop-up:  "Unable to revoke all your licenses. Revoke failed for SolarManagedChecker.\\nPlease contact Micro Focus SupportLine \\n: Error[124]: Revocation not supported for trial licenses. Please contact Micro Focus Support Line  If we could get some help getting this license properly revoked so we can set it up on our production server I would appreciate it? Thanks, -Jeff  

I don't know why it has to be so complicated to call a dll from acucobol :-( Anyway I now have to make a call to a dll function that will populate an array of items defined as follows. Function Call:Input  (int64)Output (Pointer to structure1) Structure1 Items      OutItem(10) ItemsCount Uint8 outItemTotal      DoubleString1    Char(36) Null terminated string, with a buffer maximum length of 'n 1'String2    Char(10) Null terminated string, with a buffer maximum length of 'n 1' Here is how I defined it and make the call but of course it does not work, the dll throws a memory access violation writing to address 00000000. I'm assuming the problem is that a cobol OCCURS does not translate well to the dll's ARRAY. Any direction would be helpful... 77  WS-RETVAL    PIC S9(9) COMP-5.  77  WS-NUM       PIC 9(18) COMP-5. 01&

These Eclipse projects demonstrate how a JVM COBOL Application can be used in a JAVA EJB 3.x class.EJBDemo.zip

Problem: The installation process fails to complete when attempting to install Visual Cobol 2.2 for Visual Studio 2012 on a Windows 2008 R2 machine. Resolution: The installation process fails because the VC 9.0 CRT is missing from the machine, and upgrading to Visual Cobol 2.2 Update 1 will rectify this issue. Alternatively, as a workaround, installing the "Microsoft Visual C 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package" from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5582 will resolve the issue.

I have somehow gotten my NetExpress COBOL programs to stop, as if there were a breakpoint set in them, at the beginning of every program called.  I do not want this to happen, but I can't find doc on what caused it and how to change it back so that animation only stops at breakpoints that have been set.  Thanks.#animation

I have a confusion between the different operating systems 32 and 64 BIT. We have a small local area network working under Windows XP with the SMALL BUSINESS SERVER 2003, all terminals running with 32 BIT   The only exception is my computer with Windows 7 in 64 Bit version.  I have the following BAT file in order to look for open files in the server OPEN-FILES.BAT contains: s: openfiles /query /v /s servidor >archivo.txt notepad archivo.txt   If I run this file from C:\\   or from s:\\ it works fine, because it changes to the server disk S:   I included this same BAT file in a NETEXPRESS program.   000001 ID DIVISION. 000002 PROGRAM-ID. TEST-BAT. 000005 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000006 SPECIAL-NAMES.           call-convention 74 is winapi. 000006 DATA DIVISION. 000007 FILE SECTION. 000008 000009 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 000273 01 CmdLine          &nbsp

I'm trying to set the text of a label on a webform equal to the value of a "key" in Web.Config. Here's the html code that returns an error saying "Operand ConfigurationManager is not declared": <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["KeyName"] %>'></asp:Label> </div> </form> </body>     And it's trying to retrieve the value from Web.Config (very similar to the Micro Focus example solution BookDemoWebApplication):   <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration> <configSections> <sectionGroup name="MicroFocus.COBOL.Application"> <section name="Environment" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler" /> </sectionGroup> </configSections> <

Good Afternoon, This has never happened before when I compile my program in the IDE and there is an error, I am getting the following message: Cannot highlight syntax errors.  The program was compiled with the editor (MF) directive.  The Editor (mf2) directive is needed for syntax highlighting.  The output window can be used to navigate the errors. I exited out of the IDE and opened up a different project and I get the same error. Any advice? Thanks, Bob

I've been unable to find a way to use the properties in my program without the compiler complaining 'COBCH1304: Method not found in the repository'. Here's the code: Int.cbl:       $SET REPOSITORY "UPDATE ON"       CLASS-ID. Int INHERITS Base.              ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.       CONFIGURATION SECTION.       REPOSITORY.           CLASS Base AS "base".              OBJECT.           DATA DIVISION.           WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.           01  val                 &n

Good Morning,I am trying to read an ASCII file that is delimited by TAB (hex 09) characters, but when I READ the file through my COBOL program the TAB has been replaced by spaces.I check my EXTFH file and the setting for EXPANDTAB=OFF.Any thoughts?Thanks,Bob