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Hello!   I have a HTML text string that I would like to show to the user. As far as I have found, I cannot use the Browser control. This shows a given URL,  not a simple HTML text string. Can anyone give me a tip for showing a simple HTML text string?   Regards Dagl

Hi everyone, I need build a program to calling a external URL and get the return. You guys have a simple example that? I don't know if a have to create a webservice, if yes, can you help me with that. That interation Cobol HTTP its totally new for me. Below my setup: Server Express 5.0(updating next months to 5.1) on Unix Solaris. For any other doubts -> felipemartins@umeri.com.br Thank you !!!!#ServerExpressHTTPURL#Externallinkage114signal_11

I attached  the error in a text file does anyone know what this error means

Hi, i've already connected my code in a database(access 2007). Now my problem is the syntax in inserting data from textboxes when a button is click. Thank you.

       77 excel-app       handle of application.        77 excel-doc       handle of workbook.        77 excel-sheets    handle of sheets.        77 excel-worksheet handle of worksheet.        PROCEDURE DIVISION.        Main Section.            create @Application of @Excel handle in excel-app.            modify excel-app              @Workbooks::Add() giving excel-doc.             inquire excel-doc sheets() in excel-sheets.             inquire excel-sheets item

Hi. im new in visual Cobol, i would like to know how to connect to a database. And this program will just add, edit and delete. I can make it in Visual C#. Is it the same?? Help please. :(

Hi All, We are considering to buy the license and use Visual COBOL for our solution. However, first we need to be sure that it fits our requirements. If anyone can provide a code example (or link with this solution described) for the following that would be greatly appreciated: 1. Ability to allocate huge limits of RAM - we need a working example of creating 7 GB array and reading/writing data from its veryt last item. 2. Working example of calling a DLL written in Visual COBOL from the code written on C# - the matter is that we will be integrating the COBOL program into existing project, so we need to be sure we can do this. 3. A proof that Visual COBOL is easily integrated with could solutions (like Amazon EC2, MS Azure, etc.). Maybe examples of some existing solutions written in COBOL that are running in the clouds? We would love to use Visual COBOL for our development. If we are sure that it fits the above requirements - we would buy the license right away. Thanks, Artem#COBOL

I've added a check box to a dialog screen (with Net express cobol as backend). Question is, when a user clicks on the checkbox, I want the dialog system to immediately ask him if he really want to do this, as it will delete a record (in the Cobol code). How do I code dialog to do this?  Do I have to wait until a button is pushed (ie Save) and then interrogate the checkbox?   I could find no examples in any of the doc for this. Thanks, Fran #checkboxDialogSystemNetExpress

well I downloaded visual cobol 2012 used it for 30 days or however many days the trial version will let you and it expired so i got the micro focus personal cobol 2010 for a year supposedly and I tried to install it but it said my license expired and I hadn't even used it for a day it was referencing the 2012 cobol trial version I had I am so mad that I deleted everything and now I can't program in cobol so what can I do can anybody help me                                                                                            

Hi. I downloaded Visual Cobol for Visual Studio 2010, but my trial license of 365 days don´t work, my university passed the link of the product. When I put my activation key, the program don´t accept. I don´t know what happened, but I need this program. What can I do to fix that? Thanks

When I try to animate any Cobol program which contains a call to Dialog System, at the point where the call is made animator stops and displays a panel headed "Perform/Call Stack - view" . This indicates that DSCRUN is not animatable. There is also the error message: 191 Terminal type not defined - DSCRUN. I believe there is only one terminal type defined on our system, which is vt220.   The programs run OK "normally". My problem is getting past the Dialog System calls when debugging. #ServerExpress

We've run the dirdemo.cbl program referenced in other knowledge base articles.  It seems to run ok except that it not returning the the file/directory name as referenced in the program by name-text. We've run this both on hp-ux and linux with the same results. Any suggestions?

Hi Are there any good sample programs/systems that demonstrate how to implement a datagrid? I want to create a simple program that populates a grid then allows users to click on an entry to open a new form for amendment. I will have a button for 'Add' also. Standard stuff I would imagine, so why can't I find it? I'm going through the Visual COBOL training at the moment and can't find anything on this. Indeed, I can't find enough examples on how to deal with the new visual objects and controls. For example, setting and detecting checkboxes. It may well be that these do exist but I've just not come across them. Many thanks Ian

Problem: After installing AcuCobol V9.1.2.1 on Windows 8 and using AcuBench within the project you cannot change values in the Property Window. Every entry (Values/Items/Events) is grey. Resolution: This is fixed in V9.2 and cannot be patched into previous products. A simple workaround is to right-click AcuBench.exe, select Properties, select the Compatibility tab, and check the “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” checkbox. Once checked, the dropdown is enabled, and you can select Windows 7. Once you do that, AcuBench runs just fine. #acubenchWindows89.1.2.1

I am trying to use a cursor to read a stored procedure, but get "parse error at :ret-code" on the following declare: EXEC SQL DECLARE FpReportIdCursor CURSOR FOR :ret-code = exec CBM.dbo.FileProcessingReportDetail_SelectByReportID (:ws-report-id) END-EXEC I assume I am missing something on the exec line but the syntax above is just like the example in the manual.I use cursors in AcuSQL to read tables with no problem but this is my first attempt at a stored procedure. The manuals example gets the same parse error when I try to compile it. There are several similar questions on this forum but no answers. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,Steve

Is anyone able to access the knowledge base?  When I go to that page I cannot see anything.  The only way that we can see any of the knowledge base information is to click on the RSS feed button and that only shows the last 30.

Hi, I need  RM/COBOL Runtime - Version 12.07 for Linux Intel 64-Bit. and RM/COBOL Compiler - Version 12.07 for Linux Intel 64-Bit ¿It's posible? Thank's#COBOL

Hello everyone, I want  use the Checkstyle plugin to check my COBOL source.I try to custom the xml file,but the plugin doesn't work. Can I use Checkstyle in the Visual Cobol(eclipse)? Thanks.#VisualCOBOL

Hi all,I have a file called dsts0001 that contains data on the stock of my store. When I go to add it to the system dsn did not appear in the database catalog of WinSql why? where am I wrong? all other files are read correctly, but this file was not, maybe I'm wrong to set the logical name? thanks

I have this book that explains you can suppress leading zeros in a variable like this         01    THE-NUMBER           PIC ZZ99. but i get an error operand should be numeric error  cobch0034 error It says you can put Z's in front and suppress them this i think came from a 85 cobol standard book

I am trying to migrate some indexed files from Object Cobol 4.1. Some of these files have records which are not aligned on a 4 byte boundary. Object Cobol 4.1 must have allowed these, but Server Express 5.1 is detecting them and preventing them from being opened, returning a file status of "39". While I can recreate these files so that they will open OK, there are hundreds of archives all of which will need to be recreated. This will also involve an outage to system users, as we would wish to correct on our present system rather than the one we will migrate to - so that the data and code will be portable. Is there any setting in Server Express 5.1 which would allow the files to be opened without having to recreate them?#ServerExpress

Dear Microfocus Why Personal Edition can't run any program without the team edition trial!! Best Regards

Created On:  25th September 2012 Problem: If an XML document contains empty elements such as the RemoveThis element in:- <?xml version="1.0"?><customer>    <first_name>Joe</first_name>    <last_name>Smith</last_name>    <RemoveThis></RemoveThis></customer> then how can you remove then from the XML Document whne running COBOL under the .Net Framework. Resolution: One approach to doing this would be to apply a XSLT Transformation to the XML Document. Attached to this document is a demo showing how you can do this in managed .Net Visual COBOL The .Net Framework provides a number of classes for XML and allows a developer to apply XSLT transformations to XML. The XSLT Transform being applied is:- <xsl:sylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">  <xs:template match="@*|node()">    <sl:if test=". != '' or ./@* != ''"

Created On:  01/30/2013 Problem: Customer has a Windows Forms application that uses a dataGridView control.They need to know how they can load the dataGridView control with data directly from a COBOL data table (OCCURS).They do not want to use Data Binding but would like to directly load the table with data and be able to read the data back into the COBOL table after editing. The data is in a COBOL table that looks like the following:01 my-Table.     03 my-Items occurs 10.          05 Table-Code pic x(3).          05 Table-Desc pic x(20).          05 Table-Value pic S9(7)V99.Essentially what they need to do is transfer the content of the table to the DataGridView object, edit the data, validate it & finally return DataGridView values back to the table elements. How can this be done? Resolution: You can certainly

Created On:  01/30/2013 Problem: It is possible to set the ReadOnly property of a specific dataGridView column at design time.Is it also possible to set the ReadOnly property of an individual cell of a dataGridView dynamically with code? Resolution: Yes, you can set the ReadOnly property of an individual cell of a dataGridView control dynamically through code.Example:     set dataGridView1::Rows[sub-1]::Cells["Amount"]::ReadOnly to true Old KB# 36769