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When using variable record length line sequential definitions. Using Pipe assign clause SELECT FIL002 ASSIGN ">cat"  ORGANIZATION LINE SEQUENTIAL Does not write variable length records. Full article: 

Referenced fields from copybook are gray when this same copybook is used more than once in the same source.If the other copybook is commented out, the referenced fields become red. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015600

Clicking on the IF statement does not cause it to be highlighted with its corresponding ELSE and END-IF when there is a SQL statement below the IF statement that contains a period between the table alias and column name. The period is treated as the end of scope of the IF statement causing the corresponding ELSE and END-IF not to get highlighted. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM00

Given MOVE A TO B repeated 32766 times, both A and B are both colored red. Adding another instance of MOVE A TO B will cause A to become gray while B remains red. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015602

The following error occurs when more than one server is specified in the license manager under Options > Advanced configuration > SafeNet:CesAdminTool: "Error retrieving license information: Error[131]: Client library is not in initialized state." Full article: ht

Stepping on a MOVE statement, which has a long literal, causes Visual Studio to hang. It may eventually close Visual Studio after a while or pops up the "Choose Just-In-Time Debugger" window with the following message:"An unhandled exception ('COBOL runtime: Fault detected') occurred in [10156] deven.exe." Full article: https://portal.microfocus.

Is Server for COBOL 5.1.4 supported on Red Hat Linux  9.1 Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015590#SupportT

If an older version of the runtime (e.g. Application Server for Net Express 4.0) is already installed on a machine, will applications built with Net Express 5.1 run fine? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015693

When running an application deployed on a remote desktop server that sends the printout to a (redirected) printer attached to the remote desktop client machine, the printing process could be (very) slow. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015692

I have installed VC6.0 on Windows 11 for Visual Studio 2022. When trying to create a Cobol project gets a prompt "Micro Focus CES Daemon is not running on VC8.0 with Visual Studio". Then I tried to start the "Micro Focus CES daemon"Service under Servies but I see the service has not started instead received the below error message in the screenshot.

I have an activated license named "COBOL Server SOA (Production)(PA)" and the product Visual COBOL Development Hub 8.0 installed on a SUSE Linux Server. When I try to compile a Cobol program with cob -x ... I always get the message "1889-S License failure: no license available." I found a solution with a blank line in the ces.ini file but there is no blank line. Also I tried restarting both licensing services. Nothing works for me. Do we have the wrong license or is it another problem? Thanks!#COBOL

Hello, Do JSON statements work in Visual COBOL 4?  I cannot get the programs to compile with JSON statements with Visual COBOL 4 Following is COBOL code example:       01  MSG1.             03  SND1   USAGE COMP-1.             03  PID1   PIC 9999 USAGE DISPLAY.

Hello, Can you install Visual COBOL for Visual Studio and Visual COBOL for Eclipse on the same machine? Thank you, Doug

Hello,I'm trying to uninstall MF Cobol 6.0 to install version 8 and I can't. The MF Cobol window appears and then disappears. It doesn't allow you to do anything else. I request your help to know how to uninstall the product.Best regardsAlberto Ferraz#Windows

I want to share data between 2 modules. Most of the data is constant so I would prefer to have it initialized by the runtime system: 01  MY-EXTERNAL-DATA EXTERNAL.    05  DATA-AAA   PIC X(12)   VALUE ALL "AAAx".    ...    05  DATA-ZZZ   PIC X(12)   VALUE ALL "ZZZx". This gives me the error: *1018-E* VALUE clause not allowed here. Clause processed as comment. So I understand

Hi, we have moved the product cobol analyzer from a windows server to another. is it possible move the license from one to other. ? We have revoke the license inthe old server but when we try introduce it in the new we get an error.   If this is not possible, how can we obtain a correct license?

Anyone know what a Return-code of 2 is when using C$SYSTEM?

Is there support for JOINKEYS using MFSORT from the command line (UNIX)? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015424

Remote debugging with Visual COBOL version 5 and COBOL Server version 8 does not work Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015414

This article describes the cause of runtime error 98, 02 and a method to recover the affected indexed file. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015394

What is the maximum number of "OR" conditions that can be used in mfsort when run from the command line? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015467

On a high resolution system I retrieve for example the scaling factor of the display and it is returned as 100% even through it has been set to a different value. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015461

How do you display a tab-control on top of another tab-control ?

PROBLEM The Visual COBOL / Enterprise Developer install can fail, at the Microsoft Build Tools and SDK download/install stage, with error '0x8007000a - The environment is incorrect'.When checking the install logs, it shows that 'cblms.exe' fails with error 0x8007000a. SOLUTION After the failed installation, 'cblms.exe' can be used to check if the MS Build Tools and SDK are found by the MF product - https://bit.ly/2NwBqZY Check the output from the commands 'cblms -Q' and 'cblms -L' If the MS Tools are installed and found, then it will show something like this: cblms -Q Windows SDK location = c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10 version = 10.0.18362.0 Microsoft Build Tools location = c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Enterprise version = 14.27.29110 cblms -L Windows SDK Id Version Locatio

I am getting this error in a program that opens an indexed file in open mode of I/O.  Copies of this program is called by several processes at the same time - meaning the same program runs in parallel with each other.  Each program reads this file and skips any records it should not process.  This happens at a client site, and running this results in a 99 error code intermittently.   I don't see documentation of what a 99 i/O error is - but think it may be record locking.   We do have code that handled this by looking at a return code of a 9D (locked record condition) and when the program got that, it looped back to do the same read that eventually will get it from another process no longer locking it.  We tested this at our shop where program 1 would read the first record in the file and artificially 'pause' while the other 2 thru 12 programs would read that same record and get 9D's. However, if I know what a 99 I/O was