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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

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#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

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#VisualCOBOL

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.             03  TXT1   PIC X(12).          77  J           USAGE BINARY-LONG  VALUE 3.        77  JSONO       PIC X(256) VALUE SPACES.        77  MSGLENG

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 I cannot have EXTERNAL data initialized right from the beginning and I have to do it all by myself. So I have made an init section that I only call once and that should do the work: INITIALIZE MY-EXTERNAL-DATA EXTERNAL ALL TO VALUE Unfortunately the error message is unpleasantly accurate. The compiler does not only ignore the VALUE clause when it is setting up the memory at program start-up, but it totally ignores it for the whole of the program. Thus, the INITIALIZE statement has no choice than to

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#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

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

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#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs