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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

Hi, we edit our  of visula cobolsources with ecliipse and we havea problem with one of them. The case is that eclipse report us de error show in the image when we do the call to a paragraf  But the paragrah exist, it is defined in line 29187.   there is a num. max of lines definided in Eclipse? is it posible to change this limit there is a limit of lines  betwen the call and the definition of the paragrafh?

How may I print some text ia a specified line/column? Thanks

A sub routine needs to know if the active window is maximized and therefor needs the Cobol-Handle of the active window. Can the sub routine get this handle with cobol tools or by calling a dll ?

Hi all. Our customer has some old vision 2 files, they are in the "wrong" byte order so current vutil (and runtime) cannot open them.  We need to get them converted to vision 3 or higher.  Does anyone have a utility which can access those wrong-byte-order files to convert them? Our backup plan is a virtual machine with 32bit windows, since we have their old exe files. But that requires FINDING an old windows version.     I already tried current windows vutil, and all the various linux versions of vutil I have on our servers, none could access.

I'm trying to use a trial license for instruction purposes at Durham College and am unable to install Visual COBOL for VS 2022 because Visual COBOL for VS 2019 has to be uninstalled first. Problem is that Visual COBOL for VS 2019 will not uninstall.

I created a format IDX-8 data file using Visual COBOL 5.0 on Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019. I would like to know what is the size limit for this data file. I read a knowledge base articled at https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/visual-cobol/vc60/DevHub/HRFLRHFILE09.html . It states that format IDX-8 "Supports Files Logically >4 Gb". What is meant by "logically"? And what is the maximum size that an format IDX-8 data file will support? I performed a rebuild on the file to obtain the file information  which is as follows: "File : C:\\tpselfax.DAT Organization : Indexed Format : IDX-8 Recording Mode : Fixed Compression : N Maximum Record Length : 512 Minimum Record Length : 512 Index Node Size : 1024 Number of data records : 1413292 Data Created With Extfh Version : 19999 Last Updated With Extfh Version : 19999 Key Description (where 'Start' is measured from offset 1): Key Start Length Dupl Key Comp Sparse Char 0 1 33 N

Hi Team, We have created an ESM but we are unable to add it on our enterprise server created for an application. Basically when i click on Enterprise server -->General-Security--> Add (Security manager ) , i don't see our added ESM there. Can you please help me here why i am unable to see the ESM on my enterprise server. Thanks. PFA of for your reference. Thanks. Basu#Eclipse#Security#Microfocus#COBOL#Setup#Installation#error#MicroFocus#ESM#COBOLserver#config#Linux#help

I submitted a request for Visual COBOL for Visual Studio Personal Edition and have not gotten an email to download it while someone I know got it right away.

Hello, I try to use this criterion to find all fields used in SQL statements, but it does not work very well for me. here are the results as you can see the field named "sql-salidaendpoint" and used in a SELECT is in the results but the other filed named "sql-num-dias" which is also used in another SELECT is not in the results Why the fileds "sql-num-dias" does not appears in the results?#CobolAnalyzer#cobolanalyzer

Hello, What is this error about? And how can I fix it?

We were getting 153 ("Subscript out of range") error during runtime with Cobol 6.0.5 we used the below compilation options. -C SSRange=2-C NoCheck-C Bound With Cobol migration to 7.0.6 we with the same set of compilation options we are not getting the 153 ("Subscript out of range") error. But when I remove the -C NoCheck I am getting the error. Is there any changes implemented in NoCHECK , SSRANGE, BOUND directives of Cobol v7.0.6? #nativecobol#MicroFocus#VisualCOBOL#COBOLENVIRONMENT#MicroFocusVisualCobol#debug

  Problem:  "ESPackage could not load" message shown when starting Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2017, not all Visual COBOL components are loaded.  Resolution: To avoid this message ensure your Windows Operating System region settings are set as follows: - English set as Windows display language - In Windows regional settings > formats set to  "match windows display ()"