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The problem about create coverage report. I have a error when I create coverage report again after the source of program has been modified.The error is [TC041E Matching source file not found.Program MUSJ2401. NOTE no source code available].But the MUSJ2401.idy is in the current path which is I run the [cobtcreport tcresult.tcz].And I can create thereport at the first time.When I modified the source and create the report again,the error has occured.The .idy file copy from the same path.The default.tcf is[RESULT /home/admin/workspace/A20130501/unittest/coverage/tcresult.tcz]. Who can tell me why? My operation flow is [compile COBOL program]-[compile JVM COBOL program for test]-[run the JVM COBOL]-[create report](OK)-[modified COBOL program]-[compile COBOL program]-[compile JVM COBOL program for test]--[run the JVM COBOL]-[create report](error has occured) The screen copy[admin@rhcs32 coverage]$ lltotal 1692-rw-rw-r--. 1 admin admin 1434 May 7 16:05 default.tcf-rw-rw-r--. 1 admin admin 27

Hi all, I would like to identify if  a disk is removable or fixed. I found that the relative function is "GetDriveType" but I couldn't make it work... Thank you

We have a hybrid application that runs both native and managed functions from a native menu.  The first program run is managed.  I want to start a message loop in this program then show each managed form with the Form::Show() method.  When I execute Application..Run(ApplicationContext) in the debugger the output window displays "Step into: Stepping over non-user code 'System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.ThreadContext'" and it just hangs. This is my code:  class-id. Mgload as "Mgload.Mgload".       method-id Startup static attribute STAThread()       local-storage section.           01 context type MgLoad.MyApplicationContext.       procedure division.           set context to new type MgLoad.MyApplicationContext         &nbs

Hi All, We run with extend 9.0.1 web thin client/AcuConnetc via a client Internet Explorer. We have found that on many occassions a wrun32.exe will be sitting on the server running at 6%.  The wrun32.exe process can be viewed in AcuConnect and looks active.  The web thin client however has disconnected so by all accounts the wrun32.exe should have shut down aswell. Has anyone else come across these high running orphans or have any idea how to troubleshoot something like this. Thanks in advance.  

hi all, Is there a way to let know MF plugin (enterprise Developer for Eclipse, actually) taht files w/out extensions are INCLUDE files, and they should be treated as copybooks. Ive tried to add type (eclipse eindows->preferences->general->content types-> text->microfocus project types-> cobol copy book) but it doesnt allow.. Thanks in advance, Alex#eclipseMFcobolcontenttypewithoutextension

Hi Guys and Gals, This should be a real simple one to resolve.  I'm converting a bunch of Mainframe COBOL to Unix V6.  All is going reasonably well except that when my COBOL program needs to produce an ABEND condition back to the calling shell, it is always the PID or 0.  I do my compiles as cob64 -x foo.cbl -o foo. Any Suggestions? Thanks#COBOLserver

Hello I need to read and write files larger than 4 Gb on V6 Enterprise.  I opened an incident but still no joy.  I can work around this by processing the files as splits in and out and putting them back together in Unix, but I really don't want the next guy to have to know Unix and COBOL to figure out what I did.  Is there a flag or something that will let me work around this?

Hi, we have a problem on an Citrix Server running Thin Client connectet to an Linux Server. Sometimes the ThinClient crashes without a message and the acuthin process is still running and have to cancel manually in task manager. 30-40 Users most work on the system. The process slow down the performance and make working on the server impossible. I have no idea how to get near a solution. Have anybody an idea for me? (Citrix Receiver Version:  3.4.0.29577 Thanks#9.1.2.1ThinClientAcucorpCitrix

Hi, I got a error , when NET EXPRESS complier source like : " 316 EXEC SQL  317       SELECT ITEMA  318              INTO :ITEM_A  319               FROM MY_TABLE  320 END-EXEC  " error message * 801-S******************** ( 0)**** External Compiler Module message** ES0109 ITEM-A I don't know why host varible was changed , and how to fix that problem. Regards

Hi   Running on a Citrix server with a thin Client I need to accept CLIENTNAME from the local computer. We normally use this line to accept Environment variables. Accept w-clientname from Environment "CLIENTNAME" But when we run this line, we got nothing in the var W-CLIENTNAME. When inspected the client in a Command prompt, I can see that the CLIENTNAME is filled  with name of the local computer. Therefor I think that the reason for not geting anything in the w-clientname, is that the Accept is executed on the server and not on the client. Could anybodt tell me how to force the accept to run on the client ?   Regards Steen        

We are running Acu 9.1.1 on Windows - on WInXP, Win7, etc., we do a C$SYSTEM call to invoke a function, using 98 as the flags, the command executes and control returns to Cobol upon completion (this is the expected behaviour).  When we run the exact same program, same system call, on Windows8, the command executes asynchronously, returning control to Cobol immediately.  This causes problems because we expect the command to execute fully before returning. Is this different behaviour in Windows8, or do we need to upgrade from 9.1.1 to 9.2 for Windows 8, or is there something else happening here? Thanks Tony

Hi there, I ran this past MicroFocus a while ago but did not get very far so thought I would open it up to the community. I have noticed that on some servers the wrun32.exe is very slow to start.  We have a client running on windows 2008 server 64-bit with the 32-bit Acu4gl extend 9.01 runtime.  The runtime resides on a SAN physical drive and when RDPing into the server and double cliking on the wrun32.exe it can take up to 60 seconds before getting the cbl.out message of no parameters appears.  You can see the wrun32.exe building in memory size very slowly until it is launched.  Even if I put the runtime on the local c drive the performance is very slow to start up.  Once you are in the application the performance is fine. Has anyone else experienced this.  The server does not have internet access.  Interesting point is that if the wrun32.exe is executed via Web Thin Client it starts really quickly which makes it even more perplexing. Other servers f

Trying to follow the Tutorial for BIS with Extend 9.1.1; sample tutorial1.srf is installed in localhost/acuxbis/samples/tutorial1 - using SoapUI to attempt to run the tutorial.  After choosing "New SoapUI project, and entering the path to the tutorial1.srf file, get the following error: Had this problem in Newark and Tom showed me how to get around it, but if I took notes I've misplaced them. 

Problem: BMSCH1066S 11 syntax errors found, parsing terminated at line 223 Resolution: If the DFHMDF labels exceed 7 characters, the 'Allow Long Macro Names' option must be specified: - right click on the *.bms member in the project window - select 'Build Settings' - select the 'BMS Advanced' tab - tick the box for 'Allow long macro label names' - Close the 'Build Settings' dialog - recompile Old KB# 1407

Is there any way I can tell what type of open was used to access a file? ie: was it opened input/output or i-o. Thanks

Created On:  20 December 2012 Problem: Does WIN$VERSION work on newest Microsoft platforms?  What are the values returned? Resolution: The values returned by a WIN$VERSION executed using ACUCOBOL Runtime 9.1.2.1 are: for Windows 8: WIN-MAJOR-VERSION = 6WIN-MINOR-VERSION = 2WIN-PLATFORM = 3WIN-WORDSIZE = 3WIN-BUILDNUMBER = 9200 WIN-CSDVERSION =WIN-SERVICEPACK-MAJOR = 0WIN-SERVICEPACK-MINOR = 0 WIN-SUITEMASK = 0256 WIN-PRODUCTTYPE = 1 for Windows Server 2012: WIN-MAJOR-VERSION = 6WIN-MINOR-VERSION = 2WIN-PLATFORM = 3WIN-WORDSIZE = 3WIN-BUILDNUMBER = 9200 WIN-CSDVERSION =WIN-SERVICEPACK-MAJOR = 0WIN-SERVICEPACK-MINOR = 0 WIN-SUITEMASK = 0272WIN-PRODUCTTYPE = 3 The following images show the same values in a graphical way.

Server Express is the name of our Unix based COBOL product. Server Express contains both a compiler and a runtime environment. Server for COBOL and Application Server for Server Express are two different names for the same product - our runtime only version of our Unix based COBOL (compiler not included). Our product names also include a version number and a wrappack number. The version number is the major release and the wrappacks are minor updates. Together, this is what makes up our base product. Hotfixes are bug fixes and code changes to accomodate clients. These get applied on top of a base product. Hotfixes are accumulated and rolled up into new wrappacks. Hopefully, this explanation will help you to see that a product like Server Express version 5.1 wrappack 8 is a completely self contained COBOL product. It can be installed on your system all by itself. .  Based on Support Incident 2642472. 

Hi all how is it possible to license an acucobol program? To be more detailed, I want to intall the application (it's stand-alone) in a specific number of PCs. Maybe by capturing the mac-address? Thanks

We are looking at installing net express on our citrix server. Is anyone aware of a white paper or any document which discusses steps to install/configure net express and possible isues we may run into? Is it even a good idea to do so? Thanks, Sharif.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 19 August 2011]We are looking at the possibility of upgrading from Extend 9 to Visual Cobol. One of the questions I asked about compatibility was if I could take a very basic Acucobol batch processing program and simply recompile as is in Visual Cobol, but was told I could not, I would have to make amendments. If anyone on the forum has been through the exercise of converting from Extend to to Visual Cobol, I would be grateful to read your comments on the complexity (or ease) of the exercise. Also is an extensive (as against basic) knowledge of .NET required to fully utilize the advantages of Visual Cobol?

I want to create a new screen in NetExpress, but I have one that is very similar and I really want to avoid starting from scratch. Is there a way to copy this screen and reuse most of it?  In the past, I have tried copying and renaming the gs file, but I could never get rid of some of the 'old' info.  For example, version number.#copyscreen

I called a native COBOL program in a junit JVM COBOL.(CALL "SS2401" USING SS2401-IN)But when I run the JVM COBOL in the command line,there is a error.[Called program file not found in drive/directory (173)]I already set the path of native COBOL up in the $COBPATH,$PATH and $CLASSPATH and runned the cobsetenv script to set up my environment.And in the path of native COBOL's folder ,there are SS2401.so and SS2401.o files. Thanks! **********************************************************************[root@rhcs32 bin]# java org.junit.runner.JUnitCore junit.SS2401_testJUnit version 4.8.2.E.ETime: 0.157There were 2 failures:1) test1(junit.SS2401_test)com.microfocus.cobol.program.COBOLProgramNotFound: Called program file not found in drive/directory (173) [SS2401] at com.microfocus.cobol.program.Control.callReturningObject(Unknown Source) at com.microfocus.cobol.program.Control.call(Unknown Source) at junit.SS2401_test.test1(SS2401_test.cbl:153) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0

Build JVM COBOL by ant I had a problem when I build a JVM COBOL(JUnit test) by ant(ant -lib $COBDIR/lib/mfant.jar -f .cobolBuild).**************************************************** [cobol] [cobol] Compiling SUSJ2401_test.cbl... [cobol] ** COBCH1561S JVM support not found: Possibly the type info helper classes were not on the classpath : /home/admin/workspace/Test_RXSub/src/junit/SUSJ2401_test.cbl(0,1,0) [cobol] cob32: error(s) in compilation: /home/admin/workspace/Test_RXSub/src/junit/SUSJ2401_test.cbl [cobol] Compilation complete with 1 errors, 0 warnings, 0 notices and an exit code of 16*****************************************************I set the CLASSPATH up in the environment(RHEL6.1) and the script(.cobolBuild). But the build still failed.Have I missed anything? Thank you! environmentexport CLASSPATH=.:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_29/jre/lib/resources.jar:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_29/jre/lib/rt.jar:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_29/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_29/jre/lib/jce.jar:/usr/java/jdk1.6.0

Dear Experts, I'm writing this letter in order to enquiry about if Visual COBOL 2.1 for Eclipse on Windows provide CICS support. The COBOL applications used to run on IBM AIX TX Series. I would be most appreciative of any information you could give me in this regard. Best regards, Shulian Yang.

Customer asked if they could check online-help for Server Express through AIX command line. They used to run IBM COBOL on AIX server. They were able to get help while typing 'man' command, for example: 'man cob2'. I would be most appreciative of any information you could give me in this regard. Best regards, Shulian.