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I copied a screen and therefore its dialog to create a new screen. However, the dialog (netexpress) is not working the same for the new screen In the original, when a push button is selected, there is a Validate $windows that sets off the Val-error event if a blank category is entered.  This does not happen in the copied window, although it also invokes Validate $windows (apparently it finds no error).  Where/how do I find the validation that is actually being done in the first case?  In both cases, we have an error file as a resource. #validate

Hello, I am running ACUCOBOL in HP-UX. When I logged in as developer and runs COBOL, it does not issue any problem. How ever I encounter problems when ; 1) I logged in as root. Initialize the same environment as being initialized by developer and I encounter this error: FILE PAY01PRN;DEV=LP1;CCTL                      ^  Unknown device class. (CIERR 344) Pid 22770: *** NLGETFNAME2: bad FileEquation FILE PAY01PRN;DEV=LP1;CCTL Err:344 Parm:-21 *** FILE PAY01OK;DEV=LP1;CCTL                     ^  Unknown device class. (CIERR 344) Pid 22770: *** NLGETFNAME2: bad FileEquation FILE PAY01OK;DEV=LP1;CCTL Err:344 Parm:-20 *** 2) If I were to run the job in cron. It does not execute the COBOL program. The syntax to run the cobol program is : /opt/acucobol/bin/runcbl_AMXW805 -c /opt/amx804/NEWLA

Hi- After struggling for years with MapiLand and Outlook Security Manager in our Extend ACUCOBOL applications, we have decided to replace both with Outlook Redemption. It works very well with one exception: If Outlook is not actively running on the workstation, use of Redemption results in a Memory Access Violation Fatal COBOL error.  Has anyone else had this issue and if so how did you solve it?#OutlookRedemptionMapiLandSecurityManagerEmail

Problem: Prior to version 9.2.0 the DATE data type was not supported by the Acu4GL for MSSQL interface. This was due to the fact that the Acu4GL interface used the older "SQL Server" ODBC driver which does not support DATE. In version 9.2.0 the Acu4GL interface was enhanced to add the ability to configure the odbc driver it uses. This is accomplished by setting the A_MSSQL_ODBC_DRIVER_NAME configuration variable. The documentation says to set A_MSSQL_ODBC_DRIVER_NAME to "SQL Server Native Client 10.0" which will support the DATE type. However when running against SQL Server 2012 this produces an error when attempting the initial connection: [1] IM002 27 - Data source name not found and no default driver specified Resolution: The Documentation was incomplete. The "SQL Server Native Client 10.0" driver can be used with SQL Server 2008, but for SQL Server 2012 you must use the "SQL Server Native Client 11.0" driver. Configuring accordingly will enab

Problem: Error 9D,515 is encountered on a write to a new MSSQL table. The error logged in the Runtime trace is: *** File system error value = 515 ****** Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'A4GLIdentity', table 'servername.dbo.tablename'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails. Resolution: The A4GLIdentity column is added to the table by the Acu4GL interface to provide better performance in cases where keys allow duplicate values. The addition of that column is controlled by the A_MSSQL_ADD_IDENTITY configuration variable. In this case the identity column was unexpected and the write resulted in an attempt to insert a null which is not allowed.The documentation for A_MSSQL_ADD_IDENTITY says this:  "Note that the default value is True for a file that allows duplicates, and is False for a file with no duplicate keys." However, the documentation is incorrect. The actual default is "True" FOR ALL FILES regardless of whether or not they

Can anyone help me with the installation of Visual COBOL Eclipse  on a Red Hat Linux 5.1 system. I can only find instructions to install on Red Hat 6.x. Thanks Bob

we applied the recommendation to start relativity  in open server 6 with this shell: in /etc/rc2.d use  S99relativity, : # more S99relativitybash /usr/bin/callrelativity /usr/bin/callrelativity  # more /usr/bin/callrelativity#!/usr/bin/bashulimit -f unlimitedsu -c "/u/relativity/RUNACTIVE -w &" root Environment Hardware: HP DL380 G5, Intel Xeon Quad-core 2.6 GHz Processor, 4 GB RAM memory, 2 Disks 146 GB working in RAID 1.OS: SCO Openserver 6.0, Maintenance Pack 2.Filesystem Layout: All filesystems use vxfs which is large file aware and option is enabled in every storage filesystem. Application: RM Cobol application resides in a filesystem (different than root) which has a size of 15 GB and the size of application including programs and data is aprox 8 GB. Application is invoked using scripts loaded in each user profile. COBOL: COBOL runtime is version 11.01 and Relativity is version 12.04. Indexed file giving error code problem has a size of 1.8 GB and cannot grow,

Hi, how can I create an element like  "<InstdAmt Ccy="EUR">6543.14</InstdAmt> with  C$XML  The Problem is the currency sign: Ccy="EUR" Has anyone else had this issue and if so how did you solve it? J.Reindl DKS München#cxml

i have a problem with a file of 1.7 GB of size, with 24,02 error , if change the parameter file-lock-limit = 3 on the file the error 24,02 is solved but when  relativity dataserver try connect this file show 94,67 error how i can do the solution #RMCOBOL#Relativity

In Net Express 5.1 how do I get it to compile a COBOL program to connect to a given Oracle database, not eSQL, I'm using COBSQL?  We have our code logic like such:            EXEC SQL              CONNECT :USERNAME IDENTIFIED BY :PASSWD           END-EXEC. In the past, we used to set an IDE Environment Variable LOCAL with the value of the database name (SID) and after compiling, the program implicitly knew to connect to the proper database when it encountered the above logic.  This is not working in this version of Net Express.  I've searched through the documentation and find no hints of what to do to get this to work. I can successfully compile, but not debug the programs.  These programs compile and connect to the correct database on the Unix server.  I've been chosen to fix legacy prog

I have copied an old screen (via copy and paste) in NetExpress to make a new similar one, but how do I reset the version and block numbers?  I can view them, but can't remember how to change them.

We are using AIX 7.1 using COBOL 5.1 Server Express WP8 If the vairaible is declared in linkage sectiion,on moving the value in the called program from alphanumeric field to numeirc fileds values get changed to numeric. for example value of QS0101 is changed to 130101 after moving Same code till earlier versions was not changing after moving alphanumeric variable to numeric field. Please suggest#ServerExpress

I want to activate the free product of COBOL for visual studio but I receive this message. Is it a problem with the registration ?. the download is correct.  /Hans Error installing licences. Unable to install one or more of the requested license keys

Dear sirs, I can’t activate my Visual Cobol PE for Eclipse using the Serial Number 600000512346 given by Micro Focus or making a manual activation with the key sent by them, What can I do to fix it? I have tried using the License Manager but has been impossible, always report an error number 150. Please help me...                              

I also tried both the manual and automatic options to "activate the free product". Getting error: adding feature: Error[150]: The specified lock code is invalid. Chris, I've tried your advice but unsuccessful. Should I request support?

Will acubench read an existing working storage file (no acubench generated) and create the working storage section? Or do I have to manually create the working storage description? I have a Version 5.2 record layout in a file as part of the program. I want to import that layout into acubench so I can build a file viewer.

I use AcuBench 8 for compiling. The -Ci option must I use because otherwise the data in vision-file-record is not anymore correct. The solution for barcode printing is working on a other systeem where is not ICobol the base. There I don'nt use -Ci.  #extend#COBOL

I have a project in VC 2.1 with 150 managed programs and adding to about 225 in the end.  I am running Windows 7 with intel i3 cpu at 2.53 gz 4 gb ram and 133 gb harddrive,  To load my solution takes at least 3 minutes and to build to full solution and debug take at least 15 minutes.  Of course as I add projects to the solution it gets slower.  The only thing running besides Visual studio is my outlook. Do I need a better PC or are there other tricks to speed this up?  

If i download the free version of visual cobol personal edition can i use visual studio free when I use this cobolversion ? or must i have a licence for it. /Hans

I'm a newbie.  Please forbear.  In the Visual Studio listing of my COBOL program, what do the vertical green and yellow bars to the left of some lines of source code mean?  Thanks.

We are addressing security issues & can't figure out what determines the read-write access on vision data files created in unix by our acucobol programs.  We have played with the umasks in the user profiles & they seem to have no affect, so I'm thinking there's a umask somewhere in a config file but I can't find any documentation.   Need to know how this works in AIX, Linux & SCO.  Does anybody know?#umask#unix#COBOL

A job and program that has been running for 15 years, fails in the 'OPEN' statement. What do I specifically do to capture the error? If I remove input file 'MINI-FILE', it makes it past the 'OPEN' statement, (DISPLAY statements everywhere), so I think that file is the problem

This article discusses how to meet certain criteria for an animation to succeed. Problem: Even though Animator is started with the "anim" command, or COBSW= A, or by another valid means, the code executes without animating, or shows "ERROR: File incompatibility". Why is this? Resolution: On a system experiencing animation problems, it is helpful to begin troubleshooting by performing a simple test in a temporary directory away from the main application. Consider this quick demonstration of animation with .int code: If any of the environment variables COBPATH, COBDATA, COBCPY, COBIDY, and DISPLAY are set, unset them. Then enter these commands: mkdir /tmp/cob_test cd $COBDIR/demo/debug cp pi.cbl /tmp/cob_test cd /tmp/cob_test cob pi.cbl As long as the COBPATH, COBDATA, COBCPY, and COBIDY environment variables are not set, these five commands will result in the following three files being created in /tmp/cob_test: pi.cbl pi.idy pi.int If these files are not created,

imtkmake says to run imtkmake as root, where it should say to run casperm as root During installation of Server Express, at one point the "install" script says: Your Enterprise Server requires configuration. You can either do it now or later. To do it now you need to know the alphanumeric user ID of the Enterprise Server System Administrator. To do it later, enter the following commands whilst logged in as root : [cobdir]/bin/eslminstall [cobdir]/bin/casperm (In the above, [cobdir] means the directory where you installed the product). If you choose "n" for "no", Enterprise Server won't be configured. Then later if you try to invoke the imtkmake utility, the following error appears: Enterprise Server has not yet been configured. This tool cannot be run without that being done. If you wish to configure now, execute [cobdir]/bin/imtkmake whilst logged in as root. The trouble is the error should tell you to execute "casperm" as root, not &quo

Problem: The file-status 98,02 identifies a corruption in an indexed Vision file.The header's next record pointer points to an area that is invalid. Resolution: To avoid this error, add the following variables in the cblconfi file: FLUSH_ON_OPEN 1FLUSH_COUNT 1 Please review the extend(R) Documentation Set for further information about these two environment variables. #Vision