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When trying to run a COBOL program, the error is received: Error - No license key detected. Application Server requires a license key in order to execute. This indicates that no Server for COBOL licenses are installed in the apptrack licensing system.   For more information about this licensing system, consult the documentation.  Start here: http://supportline.microfocus.com/documentation/books/sx51ws02/sx51indx.htm Then scroll down the menu on the left side and click "Deployment License Management Guide", then "Chapter 2: Installing and Administering Micro Focus Server Licenses".  Run apptrack, then use option 2. "License Summary" to see installed licenses. If there are no licenses at all, then install a Server for COBOL license and the problem will be solved. Apptrack may show some licenses described as "Developer Usage".  This type of license is described in the documentation section: "Chapter 3: Developer Testin

The following web page shows Micro Focus product versions, and the general OS versions under which they are supported: http://supportline.microfocus.com/prodavail.aspx For more detail, on UNIX/Linux systems, there is a file named "env.txt" that is installed with each Micro Focus COBOL product. On disk, in the directory where the product is installed, there is a subdirectory named "docs", and within that subdirectory, the file named "env.txt".  In other words, the file is: $COBDIR/docs/env.txt The "env.txt" file specifies the exact OS versions that Micro Focus used when producing and testing and certifying that particular Micro Focus product. More than one OS version is listed in the file, because certification testing is performed on more than one OS version. Besides specifying OS versions, the file shows the commands used to reveal the OS versions. For example, the file may say: Operating System ---------------- AIX 6.1.0.0 6100-00 uname

My IDE has a problem of garbled character . My os is Japanese Windows XP. How can I resolve this problem? Thank you.

Good evening at all.I'm using the Web-Browser control of acucobol.It works fine but it could be graphically better if I could remove the black-border of the control.Does anyone know if it is possible or not adn, evantually, how? Thanks in advance#web-browser

Created On:  23 September 2011 Problem: An application compiled with Net Express accesses files on a Novell Netware drive without a problem.  After converting the same application to Visual COBOL, any OPEN of a file on the Netware drive results in a file status 9/181 being returned.  File status 9/181 indicates a parameter error in a call.  Why is this happening? Resolution: In Visual COBOL we changed the default values for the following two file handler configuration options so that 64-bit file handling would be supported by default.In Net Express the default was to use 32-bit file handling.IDXFORMAT   = NX=4 - VC=8FILEMAXSIZE = NX=4 - VC=8So in Visual COBOL when a file is opened, a 64-bit flag is being passed to the CBL_OPEN_FILE run-time routine whereas in Net Express a 32-bit flag is passed.Novell Netware drives behave like 32-bit drives and can therefore only handle files up to 4GB in size.So when Visual COBOL attempts to open a file using

Dear All, I'm writing this letter in order to enquiry about how to download a specific hotfix (i.e. HF4) for Visual COBOl for Eclipse externally.  I only see a batch update file via supportline as follow: http://supportline.microfocus.com/websync/VisualCobolEclipse21Update1.aspx   I would be most appreciative of any informaion you could give me in this regard. Best regards, Shulian.      

In the declarative section in MF COBOL for Net Express (on Windows) and Server Express (on  Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP UX), what should be defined as SOURCE-COMPUTER? We are aware of the compiler directive TRACE, and are able to make use of it. We are explicitly looking for the usage of DECLARATIVE section. Our product works on multiple platforms, and hence using TRACE compiler directive is not an option, since it won't be available on IBM Mainframe. #ServerExpressHTTPURL#netexpress#debugging

Just got back from attending the developer conference in San Francisco and there was some really great information in the presentations. Kudos to all the presenters. One thing that seems to be missing from Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2012 is support of NuGet packages (http://nuget.org/). I am migrating Oracle Pro*COBOL I/O modules to OpenESQL and being able to add ODP.NET support to my managed COBOL projects via a NuGet package would be very helpful. Something to consider for a future release? I know there would be very few packages available to COBOL developers but as the community grows I could see this as a great way for us to share Visual Studio extensions that make our lives easier.#VisualCOBOL#VisualStudio#ODP.NET

I'm running a COBOL program that runs on HPUX PA-RISC and is reading from an Oracle 10g database. One of the SELECT statements appears to be running inefficiently and I hope a hint will help. I tried using Oracle's SQL*Plus to see how the SELECT performs with and without the hint, and the results are pretty convincing that the hint makes a significant difference. I added the hint as follows: EXEC SQL DECLARE EQ0201_CONTRACT_SPAN CURSOR FOR SELECT /* INDEX (CONTRACT_SPAN (CONTRACT_NBR)) */    IMAGE_RECNBR    , CONTRACT_NBR    , BENEFIT_PKG    , BILL_TO    , CONTRACTYPE    , DIVISION_NBR    , TIER    , TRANSCODE    , VOID    , YMDEFF    , YMDELIG    , YMDEND    , YMDTRANS FROM CONTRACT_SPAN WHERE CONTRACT_NBR = :S-CONTRACT-NBR    AND IMAGE_RECNBR > :S-IMAGE-RECNBR ORDER BY YMDEFF , IMAGE_RECNBR END-EXEC I'm not getting any performance

Hi, Im using a web app to pick up the remote users IP address when they log on to my website with the following code:- set ws-UserHostIP  to self::Request::UserHostAddress But how can I find out what their PC MAC address is? I want to do this so I can introduce a level of security where I only allow certain addresses to do certain things. Many thanks in advance for any help on this matter Kind regards Neil.

Does anyonw know how can i embed skype features in my app? i use defgen and created an skype.def but what then? 

Hello Developers,  Does anyone know hot to print an mschart?

Is there a place where I can find the meaning of the different "Errno" for "ASLM: Semaphore failures"? In this particular case I have a customer that reports that he gets "Errno=1008" after a Windows upgrade - can't find anything around 1008 anywhere...

Hi, I'm trying to use the c$java sentence but the file status return CJAVA-INVALIDARG VALUE -1.            CALL "C$JAVA" USING CJAVA-CALL, OBJECT-HANDLE,                "Validate", "(XX)X", "Efacturae.xml", "3.0",                 FIELD-RETURN GIVING STATUS-VAL. What's does it means this value? Thanks.

After few hours i managed to start small native cobol program, but - i can not debug it. I got error 179 (MFRUN.gnt cant be found during program chain...) . Also, i got this message; Geladen: RUNTRIG- Nicht für Debugging kompiliert [CTF] Anynone has that problem solved? Thanks, alex#Error179

Microsoft have a XMLHTTP COM Object that can be used to issue HTTP requests against a server. Unfortunately this object does not any timeout function is an HTTP request is taking a long time to complete. There is however a ServerXMLHTTP class that implements a setTimeouts method. This class compatable with the existing XMLHTTP module so you just need to change the class id in your code. For example: XMLHTTP is class "$OLE$MSXML2.XMLHTTP.6.0" to XMLHTTP is class "$OLE$MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0"      #COMMicrosoftXMLHTTPClass

In native code (gnt , dll , exe , so) Micro Focus COBOL will optimize subscript access. This optimization is controlled via the BOUNDOPT compiler directive. The optimizations can impact code migrated from other platforms. Consider this case where a table is passed (by the caller) in Linkage to the callee. The caller code is:- working-storage section. 01 ws-data. 03 ws-data1 pic x(80). 03 ws-data2 pic x(80). 03 ws-data3 pic x(80). 03 ws-data4 pic x(80). 03 ws-data5 pic x(80). 03 ws-data6 pic x(80). 03 ws-data7 pic x(80). 03 ws-data8 pic x(80). 03 ws-data9 pic x(80). 03 ws-data10 pic x(80). 03 ws-data11 pic x(80). 03 ws-data12 pic x(80). 03 ws-data13 pic x(80). 03 ws-data14 pic x(80). 03 ws-data15

Problem UNIX Visual COBOL for Eclipse won’t start   Resolution After investigation see below, for Oracle Linux 6.2. Need to instal these packages using yum.   yum install gtk2-2.18.9-6.el6.i686 yum install PackageKit-gtk-module-0.5.8-19.0.1.el6.i686 yum install libcanberra-gtk2-0.22-1.el6.i686   Then eclipse will start okay. [support@nwb-ora62sup bin]$ pwd /home/products/vceclipse21/bin [support@nwb-ora62sup bin]$ . ./cobsetenv COBDIR set to /home/products/vceclipse21 [support@nwb-ora62sup bin]$ echo $JAVA_HOME /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_13 [support@nwb-ora62sup bin]$ java -XshowSettings 2>&1 | grep "sun.arch.data.model"     sun.arch.data.model = 32 Needs to be 32 bit [support@nwb-ora62sup bin]$ eclipse Starting Eclipse at Display localhost:10.0    Please Wait... Investigation Just failed to start no error at all using normal user Try as root user you should get some errors on the console. See this article http://www.eclipse.org/fo

Problem Error “COBCH1501S Insufficient memory” Need to adjust Xms and Xmx settings in eclipse.ini Solution If you are doing large projects it is a good idea to increase the java HEAP size for your eclipse installation. There is a file in the eclipse directory eclipse.ini that needs changing To find this file Look at properties of visual COBOL start menu Select properties And highlight the start in directory This should contain something like this.    C:\\Users\\Public\\Micro Focus\\vc21upd1pkg70439\\eclipse Open window explorer and navigate to that directory. In this directory edit the file using a editor I use notepad change –Xms and –Xmx settings There are many thoughts on values to use here maybe 512 fo Xms minimum size of memory And 1024m for Xmx maximum size of memory or 1g To look like this Now close down eclipse if open and start eclipse again so we can check the settings have been applied. Go to help>about eclipse Then installation Details Sele

Problem Customer has created an ASP.NET Web Application in Visual COBOL which needs to do a P/Invoke call to an unmanaged COBOL program by using the following code:01 pp   procedure-pointer.01 next-prog   pic x(20)   value "myentry".     set pp to entry "DECHANGE"    call next-progThis works fine if the program is debugged using the Visual Studio interner Development Web Server but when the Web Server is changed to use Local IIS instead the following error message is displayed when executing the set pp to entry ... statement: Why? Resoulution: This error occurs because when running under IIS you must link the unmanaged COBOL .dll as dynamic instead of Shared on the COBOL Link option tab of the Project Properties page.This is because the search mechanism for the COBOL run-time system cblrtsm.dll is different when run under IIS. The error occurs because the run-time system cannot be found.When linking the pro

Problem: Customer has an ASP.NET Web application written in Visual COBOL which does a call to an unmanaged COBOL .dll.The .dll is located in the web applications bin folder along with the calling program yet when a call is made a 173 error "Program Not Found" occurs.How can this be resolved? Resolution: When an ASP.NET application is run, the sources for the web pages are moved to a temporary location, compiled and run from that temporary location so the default folder is no longer the bin folder..The unmanaged .dlls are not moved to this temprary location so the web application needs to know where to look for these files.It is therefore necessary to place the location of these unmanaged .dlls within the PATH environment variable.This can be done directly within the web applications web.config file by right-clicking on web.config in Solution Explorer and selecting the Edit option.You can then add the PATH environment variable and set it to the value of the folder in which you

Problem: When running a program via Thin Client a push-button on a non-active window must be clicked twice before the button activates. The first click activates the window and the second click activates the push-button. When running “normally” (not with Thin Client) the push-button activates on the first click. Resolution: In a Thin Client environment the CMD-ACTIVATE events are delayed until after the Windows notification routine receiving the event has completed. To allow the user access to activate push-buttons on non-active windows a configuration variable must be set. In the Runtime configuration file add TC_DELAY_ACTIVATE 0 to turn off the delay.

Problem: The license file created by Activator needs to be in the AcuGT\\bin directory because that directory is shared out  to run on other PCs via a mapped drive.  The Activator puts the license somewhere else, then it must be located and moved to that bin directory. Is there a way to create the license directly in the bin directory? Resolution: Beginning in version 9.0 the Activator creates the license in this directory: C:\\ProgramData\\Micro Focus\\extend\\9.0.0\\x86 (or x64 for 64-bit installations) For Windows XP it uses: C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Application Data\\Micro Focus\\extend\\9.0.0\\x86 To select a different destination simply use the Activator command line options: activator /DESTINATION=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus\\Acucbl900\\AcuGT\\bin /PCODE= <code here> /PKEY= <key here> /DIALOG=NO#license#activator

Problem In .Net how can COBOL find out the regional settings that are currently in use for a class.   Solution The .Net Framework provides the class System.Globalization.CultureInfo that allows you to obtain regional characteristics. Some sample code that uses this class is:-   $set ilusing"System.Globalization" program-id. Program1 as "CurrentCulture.Program1". data division. working-storage section. 01 Cult type CultureInfo. procedure division. ***** Obtan the Culture Information from the Current Thread set Cult to type CultureInfo::CurrentCulture ***** Display some Values from the Culture Class display "Current Locale= " Cult::EnglishName display "Current Date and Time Format = " Cult::DateTimeFormat::FullDateTimePattern display "Currency Symbol = " Cult::NumberFormat::CurrencySymbol display "Decimal Indicator = " Cult::Number

I accidentally stopped the Relativity Data Manager, and now I can't figure out how to re-start it.   I tried rebooting my PC thinking that it would automatically re-start when my PC rebooted, but that is not the case.   When ever I try to run Relativity via the Designer, or via Excel I get the following message: Error -4151 communicating with Data Manager Monitor (Error 0002). I tried running the Data Manager Monitor that is in the Relativity Folder, and the message I get is: Error communicating with Monitor Service Pipe not found \\\\.\\pipe\\Liant_Relativity_Monitor_Pipe Anyone know what I need to do???