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Hello, What are the support Oracle ODBC drivers for Visual COBOL 4? Is Oracle 19 32bit ODBC driver supported for Visual COBOL 4? Is there somewhere in documentation that details supported ODBC drivers for Visual COBOL releases? Thank you, Doug

I just installed Visual COBOL. I get the COBOL language option in Visual Studio 2022 but not 2019. Can I configure the "VSIX Installer" to target VS 2019? Also, not sure what type of project to start in Visual Studio to debug Infor Lawson Microfocus COBOL. Also do not know how to connect Visual Studio to the source code on the Infor server. Do I have to download the PD, WS, rpt and .scr files to my local windows PC? Any help appreciated!

After installing the Oracle Data Provider (ODP.NET) 19c product files, the Oracle Data Providers still do not show in the Visual COBOL ADO.NET Connection Editor. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000016031#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Program contains : 10 TIP-LIABILITY-ARR PIC X(2) VARYING. ... EVALUATE TIP-LIABILITY-ARR ... WHEN 'R' ... WHEN 'NB' The evaluation was working in Server Express 2.2 but is not working in Server Express 5.1Server Express 5.1, always checks 2 characters, and therefore tests with only one character (eg WHEN 'R') fail.To make the program work the source needs to be changed to: EVALUATE TIP-LIABILITY-ARR (1:TIP-LIABILITY-LEN ) Is there a compile directive to get the same behavior in Server Express 2.2, in Server Express 5.1, without changing the program source code? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000016138#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

The Micro Focus Native Database File Handler (MFDBFH) enables you to store your COBOL data files in a relational database without changing your application. This walk-through outlines the steps required to store your data files in a relational database. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015911#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

After upgrading Kubernetes version and O/S Kernel, attempts to run a COBOL program under COBOL Server for Docker might begin issuing 245 COBOL RTS errors consistent with not being licensed: 245 There are no valid product licenses Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000016093#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

For issues using the Eclipse remote connection type "Micro Focus DevHub SSH Only", a checklist of items that may interfere with remote debugging. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015528#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

I have network printer HP LaserJet Pro M428f-M429f with static IP address 10.0.0.27. It was installed using TPC/IP option on Windows 10. Printing from Windows is OK but from Cobol program I got error: error code: 114, pc=350F, call=1, seg=0 114 Attempt to access item beyond bounds of memory (Signal 11) When I try to print with another printer ( locally connected with USB) everything is normal.This is my code: PERFORM PRNW-OPEN. PRNW-OPEN.     *-------- move 1 to Prn-Flags.     *-----------definisi pre poziva Prn-Flags------------------------      move 0 to Prn-WinHand.      move "Greska kod OPEN Printera !!! " to Prn-Errtxt.      *-----------Izracunavanje duzine naziva liste--------------------      MOVE 128 TO Prnw-len.      MOVE PrnDoc-naz TO Prnw-InCHR.      PERFORM PRNW-Title-Len.      IF PrnDoc-naz = Space THEN;     &nbs

Hello, Recently, when working in a Visual COBOL 4.0 Visual Studio 2017 environment, if we leave Visual Studio 2017 up for a length of time, we get the following Visual Studio 2017 error.   We then have to kill Visual Studio 2017 via Task Manager.   Has anyone else experienced this?  Could this have been caused by a Microsoft update?

We are using WPF with Visual COBOL in our software, and our software is setup where our screens display in tabs.   I need to figure out a way to check to see if the user has a program open in one tab, and then tries to run that exact program from a call statement in another program.  I want to display an error message letting them know that the program is already open on another tab. Is there a way to do this? 

We applications running under cobol server on Linux (RHEL 8) with a temporary license and have a permanent license to install. Can this be done without stopping our COBOL applications?

By importing the project.app i can see in the importReport.txt following lines: * Did not optimize 'adm-anb_dll', as its 'link with lib file' link setting contains a non-default value * Did not optimize 'cgtools_dll', as its 'link with lib file' link setting contains a non-default value * Did not optimize 'eti-anb_dll', as its 'run-time model' link setting contains a non-default value * Did not optimize 'LLMODULES_dll', as its 'run-time model' link setting contains a non-default value What can i do to find the non-default value and correct this? thanks for help!

Find references to DS.ICN resource file in Dialog System screensets Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000015983#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

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.