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Server Express throws an error when trying to use a license: "No more licenses for this product are available"  but there is no obvious process consuming such license (eg. compilation, animator). Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000016012#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Each Patch Update release of Visual COBOL is provided with a .zip file containing Help content that can be installed into the Visual Studio Help Viewer. This file can be obtained as a separate download from the SLD site. If I already have installed the base release of the Help content into Visual Studio then how do I install the updated Help content? Are these files cumlative? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015975#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

The Visual COBOL intrinsic function INTEGER-OF-DATE returns a RTS error 181 when specifying an invalid date as an argument. We were expecting it to return a zero. Why? Example statement: compute date-int = FUNCTION INTEGER-OF-DATE (20230230) If a valid date is used then the integer is returned correctly. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015976#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

mfsort using "take" file generated using a UNIX script, produces incorrect results Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015955#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

 References to some variables are not being resolved at run-time or while debugging (.NET) Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000014696#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Compiling programs with debug option increases *.so file size dramatically Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015829#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

After adding a service reference into a project with SQL directives (e.g. SQL(DBMAN=ADO)...) , the build fails with "Undefined ECM error. Inform Technical Support. Error code 12." Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015594#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

When running in Thin Client mode, and trying to open a directory on the client, RETURN-CODE would not be set to 0 on failure, possibly causing a failure in subsequent calls to read the directory. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000016001#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

If program  is compiled with the directives VERBOSE WARNING(1) ASSIGN(EXTERNAL) DEFAULTCALLS(4) FILETYPE(4) IDXFORMAT(4) VSC2 FP-ROUNDING (VSC2) CHECKDIV(VSC2) SIGN(EBCDIC) NOCHECK IBMCOMP PERFORM-TYPE(OSVS) LIST() NOALTER ERRLIST NOTRUNC BOUND DEFAULTBYTE(0) NOFDCLEAR using Visual COBOL Development Hub v3 patch update 24.When it runs the file produced is generating the expected results.If program is compiled with the same directives file using Visual COBOL Development Hub v6 patch update 23.When it runs the file produced contains different data and incorrect results.If program is compiled with the same directives file using Visual COBOL Development Hub v6 patch update 23.When it runs the file produced contains the expected results that were produced in Visual COBOL Development Hub v3 patch update 24. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015998#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

I am using Visual COBOL with WPF, and I would like to format the DatePicker to just show the Month and Year when entering and displaying data on this field.  What would the code be for Visual COBOL to do that??

Our company uses the xdbc to access the cobol data for several dozens of sites. We have one particular setup where we have an app server and a db server. Some of our data is in the sql server and some of it resides on the app server in cobol files. We use the sql linked server to access the cobol files with views that way we can do joins between the sql tables and cobol files. The issue that we are trying to solve is that we are trying to find a way to connect a linked server to the connection on the app server. I'm not sure if this can be done without using a second install of the xdbc on the sql server that points to the cobol files on the app server. We just use the local install now and I can't really figure out how to use the network version this way. Does anyone have ideas on how we could accomplish this?

Nowadays, when I want to offer a solution in Visual Cobol, the first question that the interested person asks me is on which data system the application is developed, if COBOL IDXFORMAT files or on a standard DB system, such as SqlServer, DB2, Possgresql, MySql, ..... It is more complicated to sell the solution based on the classic cobol files, and they demand solutions based on more open and modern systems... Is it possible to have an example of the steps to be done in an application, so that a file defined in the SELECT as CUSTOMERS and a Value-id "CUSTOMERS.DAT" is generated on a DB "COMPANY_AG" is created and managed automatically with the MFDBFH tool, without changing source programs? Regards.

Hi, we are using this function to validate a date.  COMPUTE RES-DATE-INT = FUNCTION INTEGER-OF-DATE (DATE8) The problem is that when DATE8 contains an invalid date: 20230230, the execution stops with 181 error code:  error code: 181, pc=0, call=1, seg=0181 Invalid parameter error Is it possible to manage this situation? I mean, could we in some how to have some exception handling or similar? We tried with TEST-DATE-YYYYMMDD function, but we receive a compilation error: Invalid FUNCTION name TEST-DATE-YYYYMMDD Is there any way to validate a date by using Visual Cobol functions? Our VC release: PRN=KXCRH/AAD:Ao.U4.13.04PTI=32/64 bitPTI=Micro Focus Visual COBOL Development Hub 5.0 - Patch Update 05PTI=Patch Update 05 Thanks in advance#ExecutionError#datevalidation

Specific case: Added vcdocsvs2019_70 to MS Help Viewer during initial install.  Now have installed Patch Update 16 and have vcdocsvs2019_70_pu16_318103.  How do I apply/update the locally loaded the Help Viewer content with the pu16 version, or do I remove the original content and add the pu16 version?  Aren't the updates to the Help Viewer content cumulative?  If not then why is pu16's MicroFocusVisualCOBOL.cab only two thirds the size of the original? I don't want to "lose" any of the content.  I would appreciate any guidance as to best practices,  The Help Viewer help and what I can find in the Micro Focus content isn't clear to me for this specific situation.

Hello, Since I have a full license for Visual COBOL SOA Visual Studio(PA), this same license is good for all versions of Visual COBOL....correct? Thank you.

How to install Visual COBOL for Eclipse and Enterprise Developer for Eclipse on an offline Windows environment step by step. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015647#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Animator shows wrong source when copybooks are nested Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015625#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

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: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015622#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

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#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

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/KM000015601#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

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#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

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: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015598#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

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.com/s/article/KM000015604#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

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

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#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs