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Using Visual Cobol Eclipse with Subclipse as SVN integration. When trying to create a new project with "Checkout project from SVN Wizard" select SVN repo and then select "Checkout using "ew project wizard" then select "Remote SSH Project". This gives the error "Cannot create project to checkout to".  A remote folder is created at desired location but we there are no content except for files ".cobolBuild .cobolProj  .project  .settings" which are created at project initiation but before local SVN checkout is started. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013612#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Using new-x = 900 and new-y = 300 with PC_PRINTER_SET_POSITION returns 31 in managed while it returns zero in native. If new-x is reduced to 300, then it returns zero. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013593#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Users could scroll past the edge of a grid with no variable row heights by programmatically setting the grid's vertical scroll position, resulting in extra white space being visible beyond the grid edge. Example: MODIFY ws-grid-handle START-X nn START-Y nn X = nn Y = nn CURSOR-X = nn CURSOR-Y = nn HSCROLL-POS = nn VSCROLL-POS = nn Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013570#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

In AcuBench, when editing a DLT file, on the XFD tab the name given in the "File Directive:" field is limited to maximum 18 characters. Although it seems to have no further impact when creating the XFD, the XFD takes on the name of the DLT itself, and not the one specified in the field. Moreover, when working with a WHEN condition and giving the "Table Name:" option, then the same limitation stands.  Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013681#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Using 10.5.0, a MAV occurs on the following statement: accept ws-variable allowing messages from ws-thread-handle It does not happen when using 10.4.1 (or previous versions). Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013679#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Product installation software prompts user to enter license activation code. Entering the required activation code fails with the message: Activation code has expired. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013672#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

While debugging in Eclipse and stopped at a breakpoint, it's possible to edit the source file(s). In Enterprise Developer/Visual COBOL for Eclipse 7.0 Patch Update 11 with JVM COBOL, the focus in the editor keeps jumping to the breakpoint line while typing elsewhere. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013671#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

When attempting to execute the command to run the ACUCOBOL installation file, the command fails with an error containing the phrase "No such file or directory". Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013670#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Error: "### Initialization error - License storage configuration not set in config.properties" appears when trying to execute a COBOL program. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013663#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

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I normally use VS 2019 and VC 7, but did some experiments with VC for Eclipse and VC 8 last autumn. Since these experiments didn't turn out the way I had expected I uninstalled VC 8, but when trying to open VC 7 that didn't work at all. I tried first to repair and then uninstall VC 7, but neither worked. I'm afraid I have created a real mess of this so the best thing would maybe be to manually delete all crucial points in Windows Explorer and the Register Editor. Is that possible and what should I do in that case?

Hello all. I'm preparing for a future rollout of Visual COBOL on a few machines. Most of them were able to successfully uninstall the old version of Visual COBOL, but two machines have done their best to spite me. If I attempt to uninstall it on the machine interactively (physically or Remote Desktop), the uninstaller will appear for a brief second, then close itself without showing any content besides a white screen inside the window. If I attempt to uninstall it silently using the "/uninstall /quiet" flags, I get no output and a return code of -1073740940, which as far as I'm aware doesn't have an equivalent error message to interpret. Are there any tricks or processes I should complete to uninstall it? Thank you!#VisualCOBOL

Hi , Could you please help us on the below issue . We are able to create and connect to remove project from visual cobol eclipse to Linux SLES15 , but not able to debug remotely. The startrdodemon is already running on port 4075 in Linux. When trying to debug getting an communication error . Please note the connection is done using DEV HUB SSH only. The linux server already has a a dev hub installed. Regards Ram

Hi, I want to use user32.dll in acucobol, but only for the GetClipboardData function. I tired this but it doesn't return anything:                   call    user32.dll@WINAPI ON EXCEPTION DISPLAY "err start".            CALL    "GetClipboardData" USING                    by REFERENCE DATA-LINK                    BY               VALUE BUF-SIZE                    ON EXCEPTION DISPLAY "err call".              DISPLAY DATA-LINK      &nbsp

Able to connect to remove project in Linux SLES15 , and create a project , but not able to debug remotely. The startrdodemon is already running on port 4075 in Linux. on starting a debug session , getting an Debug error code 7#VisualStudio#Windows#SUSE

Hola, He importado un antiguo proyecto en NE (EDISQL.app) a Visual Cobol. que incluye instrucciones de SQL embebido con (DBMAN=ODBC)  El proyecto en NE funciona correctamente y se compila sin errores, pero cuando lo importo desde VS2019, Archivo,Nuevo,Import NetExpres projet, parece que la importacion la realiza correctamente, pero cuando compilo la solucion por primera vez, en alguno de los programas CBL del proyecto, genera algunos errores en la linea END-EXEC.     Adjunto panttallazos de uno de los programas que da error. He configurado las SQL directivas con SQL(DBMAN=ODBC) SQL(BEHAVIOR=OPTIMIZED) SQL(TARGETDB=MSSQLSERVER), Como puedo solucionarlo?. Gracias

have suffered a mishap in my computer and when I reinstall everything again, the netexpress 3.1 medium is damaged and I need it to reinstall it, how can I get it, do you know?#netexpress

The reference on the ALLOCATE statement (ALLOCATE Statement (COBOL) (microfocus.com)) says that: If the specified amount of storage is not available for allocation: If the RETURNING phrase is specified, the data item referenced by data-name-2 is set to the predefined address NULL. My question is can someone give me an example of how to test the returned USAGE POINTER variable for NULL? Thanks

Hi ArcSight members, I would like to know where I can find documentation or step by step guide to enable email notification on daily/weekly report. Is it done through only ESM or only Logger, If both possible please suggest me with the link where I can find it. I have gone through ArcSight admin guide and logger installation guide but couldn't find actual step by step simplified basic reporting.  Appreciate if you can assist me here Regards, Thenraj R#ESM#logger#report

My PC system loaded the latest Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2, and latest Office 365 I have in my software Active-X calls to generate MS-Word documents. This routine has worked just fine for the past 15 years. Now, when I execute my program to generate an MS-Word document, up pops a window titled "Microsoft Word Security Notice" with the message "Microsoft has blocked macros from running because the source of this file is untrusted". The file shown is "C:\\Users\\Larry\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Windows\\NetCache\\Content\\~WRC3547tmp which I am guessing is a temporary using an MS-Word template I have. I read through the documentation that you can launch and tried setting up "Trusted" directories and applicable files, but the message keeps showing. When the message does show, if I close the window, the MS-Word document does get generated.  (If I do not close it within about 7,8 seconds, all sorts of errors get generated from my program). Any suggestions on disabling this new Microso

I currently have the extfh.cfg file handler in the same folder/directory where my Visual COBOL application resides. However, the data files that the extfh.cfg is handling are located on a different folder. My extfh.cfg looks like this:   [XFH-DEFAULT] IDXFORMAT=3 [file1.dat] IDXFORMAT=8 FILEMAXSIZE=8 [file2.dat] IDXFORMAT=8 FILEMAXSIZE=8   Since the data files are located in another folder, do I have to specify the path where the data files are located in the extfh.cgf file? For example, does the configuration have look like this:   [c:\\files\\XFH-DEFAULT] IDXFORMAT=3 [c:\\files\\file1.dat] IDXFORMAT=8 FILEMAXSIZE=8 [c:\\files\\file2.dat] IDXFORMAT=8 FILEMAXSIZE=8 Thanks in advance. 

Hi Team, In Microfocus MFJSORT when i try to convert from PD to ZDF in sort jcl it throws an error as 'FIELD FORMAT 'ZDF' invalid.please let me know the alternate approach for ZDF

how to declare hexadecimal value in cobol. i declared x(2) value 'X'E2E4' .it shows value literal size is greater than data item size error.how to rectify it

The problem occurs when creating a new list in cobol. The list defintiion is in a c# dll. Whenever the list is instantiated in code we get the following error: System.ArgumentNullException: "Key cannot be null. Arg_ParamName_Name" The program compiles and can be started but when the line is reached, the error occurs. When setting a breakpoint the error doesn't occur but then a second error occurs. Inside of the object the list is created of we get a NullReference VARIABLENAME not set to an instance of an object. The variable is of type string and is initialized with an empty string in the constructor. The variable is private and can only be accessed over an property which does a null check as well. Object declaration: private string _VALUETYPE= ""; private string _VALUE = ""; private string _VALUE_EXTENSION = ""; public string VALUETYPE { get { return _VALUETYPE; } set { _VALUETYPE = value; } } public string VAL