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Micro Focus License Administration: Revoking your License If you wish to move your permanent license from one machine to another you will need to revoke your license on the original machine. This will release the license so that you can reinstall it.Please note that once an authorisation code has reached its activation limit, it cannot be reused for rehost purposes. A revoke must be carried out to release the license. This process is for those who have authorisation codes, rather than Pre-Authorised licenses. Click on the Revoke button beside the license that you wish to remove. On the next screen confirm that you would like to revoke this license. The system will connect to the server and release the license. If this is successful, there will be a message in green: Licenses revoked, and a new authorisation code will be displayed for you to use on the new machine.   If the Revoke process fails, an error message will appear:               &nbsp

Hello! I have a question regarding Managed Cobol DLLs with more than 1 classes and EXEC SQL Statements. At the moment, if I have a project, with 2 Classes, TestA and TestB, and both have EXEC SQL statements in them, I would get 2 bnd files, each named after the class (TestA.bnd and TestB.bnd). Is it somehow possible to create a merged bnd file for these 2 classes by setting some db2 precompiler settings? Up to now I was not able to achieve that. I don't even know if that is possible at all, as I haven't found anything in the documenation about such topics. Thanks for you help, best regards Thomas

The DateTime fields I am inserting into my database can sometimes be null.  I want such fields in the table to show as null, not as "0001-01-01 12:00 AM".  You do this In C# by using DateTime? as your data type.  How do you do this in Visual COBOL ?  I haven't been able to find any documentation on it.#VisualCOBOL

I'm recently worked out integration of Visual Basic.net occupying AcuODBC to access cobol data, try insert same record into same vision table with modification to certain field values.   Then it ended up to pop-up Error message as "ERROR [S0000] [AcuCorp, Inc.][AcuODBC Driver][ISAM]Vision duplicate record", but My data is about  successive to insert in. Can anyone tell me why it happened and how to fix this? Thanks in advanced.  #AcuxODBC

MF:  I have a program that reads a file in sequential order.  I do not want to make extensive changes to the existing programs .  it possible to do a rewrite of a record twice in a row (Read Rewrite, Rewrite) ?  If not, how would make it possible ?

I am attempting to set a breakpoint in NX 5.1 on a line that is split across 2 lines. I get an "Invalid Statement" error.  I can do this quite well with NX 5.0.

I have installed DB2 in visual cobol. Do you know which server I  can use when I create a database ?. Is it a download file from IBM or  Microfocus ?. /Thanks Hans  

Further to my earlier post on this subject, the problem has arisen again. I have tried Chris' suggestions re cblcored.exe and to "Copy cblcore over to your development computer and in the Net Express IDE select animate and then browse to the cblcore file and select it. It will need access to your .idy file for debugging information. This will then display your program source and the line on which the error occurred will be highlighted and you can check the contents of the programs variables." First problem: when I try to animate my program I get a message  "173 called program not found in the drive/directory dbopen". I am using a 3rd party library (image3kc.dll/lib). Second problem: you say "browse to the cblcore file and select it" - not quite sure what this does - if I select it and open it in NE I just get garbage so what did you mean? Help appreciated!

This document is a portal into the Micro Focus community documentation on JVM COBOL web services. Web Services in Visual COBOL 2.2 This section covers the web service tutorials, technologies and best practices as they apply to Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.2. Visual COBOL 2.2 - JSP Web Services Tutorial: This tutorial covers the creation of a JSP web service that uses a procedural JVM COBOL program to implement the business logic. Visual COBOL 2.2 - REST Web Services Tutorial: This tutorial covers the creation of a REST web service that uses a procedural JVM COBOL program to implement the business logic. It uses JQuery to implement a web client for the service. Visual COBOL 2.2 - SOAP Web Services Tutorial: This tutorial covers the creation of a SOAP web service that uses a procedural JVM COBOL program to implement the business logic. Visual COBOL 2.2 - SOAP Web Services Client Tutorial: This tutorial covers the creation of a SOAP web service client that uses the SOAP Web Service. V

Is there some kind of window I can open up to see a list of all the bookmarks in my program, with their line numbers?  If so, how do I get to it (a) via menu, and (b) via keyboard-shortcut?

Chris, I testet both methods on 2 PC's with W7prof. 32bit-version. pp was <> null and OS64Path <> space

Hi Bernd, I know that NE runs on all platforms, but that was not the question. depending on 32 or 64 bit I start different processes. kr Georg  

I'd like to understand the distinction.

Hi! I write a Cobol program with Net Express 4.0. I Need to read a SEPA XML File with a lot of booking Details... Now i can: Open the XML File Read the XML File BUT: The file have a lot of Booking lines in the file and i can read only the first line!?          Then i become the Information -7 (AT END) and not the next record from the file!? Here is the Cobol Code for the XD:        SELECT XML-STREAM  ASSIGN TO NOT LINE ADVANCING  XML-DATEINAME                          ORGANIZATION     IS XML                          DOCUMENT-TYPE    IS XSD-DATEINAME           &nbs

I would like for there to be no TAB characters in my COBOL source listings, because I sometimes need to copy working-storage tables into Excel.  The TAB characters cause my line of COBOL to be split into two or more columns.

This is a sample which shows how to use ACUCOBOL-GT C$REGEXP routine.TESTREGEXP.zip#HowTo-BestPractice#AcuCobol

Hello, I know it possible to define functions in a repository : mytest.cbl      $set preservecase case       identification division.       program-id. mytest.       environment division.       repository.           function MYFUNCTION.       data division.       ...       procedure division.           move function myfunction(myparameter) to myresult      .........      end program mytest. And then myfunction.cbl :       $set repository(update ON) preservecase case       function-id. myfunction,       ....   &nbs

I have a system on Net Express 3.1.11 that I am migrating to VC 2.1.  I understand that the licenses are different between the two products.  Can both licenses co-exist on the same server so that I can continue to run the old system while testing the new VC system?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 25 November 2011]Hi there,Using the Micro Focus eXtend product range, has anyone done anything around generating PDF documents? Ultimately we are looking for a solution that does NOT require distribution licensing ie. we can run distribute the solution to our clients without an additional license cost.Is there any inbuilt mechanism within the extend range ?Is anyone using any third-party controls ?Any feedback would be great. Thanks in advance.

I just installed visual cobol for eclipse on windows and everything is running smooth. Im just trying to make a simple Hello world app that just displays Hello World in a console window. Every time i run the code, the console flashes open and exits immediately. Am I doing something wrong or is there to stop this? Thanks in advance, Kyle 

I've been searching and getting confused about getting my COBOL expanded before I call the procob precompiler.  I've looked through the scripts that I could find from Micro Focus for our Server Express on Solaris, but found no references in them.  I'm looking for the equivalent of p(CP) precompiler directive.  I'm totally lost.#ServerExpress#Compiling#unix#COBOL#Oracle#64bitcompilationissue

I need to write a program to read an ONIX(XML) file and create an Excel spreadsheet from the data. It seems there are a few ways to read xml files. What would be the best way/tool? Thanks, Steve#ONIXXML

Problem A customer asks if there is a way or if a cbl routine exists to search for filenames that contains  a certain character (space in this case). In Visual Basic it could be a simple three line program such as: Dim result = My.Computer.FileSystem.FindInFiles("c:\\", " ", False, FileIO.SearchOption.SearchAllSubDirectories)         For Each name As String In result            ListBox1.Items.Add(name)        Next What would be the equivalent code in Visual COBOL for both managed code and native code projects?  Resolution  For managed code COBOL the VB program above could be written as the following: (The assembly Microsoft.VisualBasic must also be added as a reference to the COBOL project) $set ilusing"Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO" $set ilusing"System.Collections.ObjectModel" program-id. P

Problem Customer is compiling CICS programs using Net Express 5.1 to run under IBM TX Series under Windows. The programs are compiled as .dlls and are given the extension .cbmfnt before they can be run as a TX Series transaction. As part of the customer's build scenario, they essentially build the cbmfnt, move it into the bin directory of the region and run the transaction. They then might make a change, rebuild the cbmfnt and move the new cbmfnt into the bin directory. When they tried to do this with Netexpress, they got an error when trying to copy the new version of the cbmfnt in because another process had the first version of the dll open. The TX Series documentation states that to deactivate the Micro Focus cache, that you should set the environment variable COBSW to -l0. But this doesn't seem to have any impact. The documentation also states that you could do a CEMT PROGRAM(blah) NEWCOPY (or PHASEIN) which would 'uncache' any Micro Focus programs. Trying all