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Hello, we are working with version 4.0 of CA and we want to update to version 8.0 of CA:1 - Is it possible to do it without installing the previous versions? 2 - Would it be necessary to completely uninstall the product and install it again with the correct version?

My solution involved existing PRO*COBOL modules compiled into Visual COBOL. and for this we are using 64 bit ODAC drivers provide by Oracle. Installation of the ODAC drivers have been successful, however when trying to consume the drivers using ADO.NET Connect Editor I endup with dependency on Microsoft .Net framework 3.5 or lower where as the ODAC provider is .Net 4.5 and above and I've selected Framework as 4.0 and above in ADO.Net and the CPU architecture as 64 bit. It would be great, if some one can point me in the right direction to install and use ODAC 64 bit drivers for my Visual COBOL 64 bit without any dependency on the 32 bit framework or 3.5 framework. Below are some images from my experience. Image 1. Image 2 Image 3

this is a COBOL performance issue related to PeopleSoft.  We are doing a system upgrade and having no change in COBOL program.  We are seeing our cobol process running much slower.  Available tracing shows us the issue is not SQL performance related.  We are upgrading from PT 8.56 to PT 8.59 and Oracle DB 12c Extreme Performance RAC to DB 21c Extreme Performance RAC. New and Old environments are all in OCI. Our issue is that existing COBOL program for GL Consolidation is running much slower on the PT 8.59 environment. We have worked with Oracle Support and provided AWR reports and can confirm the issue is not SQL or DB tuning related. In the COBOL trace we see that total time in application is greatly increased in our new environment compared to old. Process is running more than twice as long in new environment on equivalent linux process schedulers with same ocpu/memory etc. Any idea what influences the Total in Application time? Also - we have tried recompiling co

For web service deploys beyond Development, customer uses mfdepinst utility, which receives messages: 2007 (Mon Oct 31 09:06:15 CDT 2022): Unable to bind to directory: (81) SERVER_DOWN4020 (Mon Oct 31 09:06:15 CDT 2022): Unable to add service and package objects to directory9999 (Mon Oct 31 09:06:15 CDT 2022): Exiting. Installation not complete. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000011815#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Net Express's certification on Windows Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000011770#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

In this case the language was Hebrew and when moving text to an output file it was not being displayed at all. It was only producing an empty output file.This worked fine with Server Express Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000011746#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

How to determine the version of the product or compiler that was used to build a .gnt file? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000011724#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

CodeBridge as a product was introduced to the RM/Cobol suite of products while there was only a 32-bit version of RM/Cobol. This meant that documentation only contained example command lines for compiling and linking within a 32-bit environment. As time progressed, a 64-bit version of RM/Cobol was released but the CodeBridge documentation was not updated to take account of changes required when compiling and linking a 64-bit application. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000011814#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

It is possible to nest Cobol-IT programs together in the same source module.The -fstatic-call directive tell the compiler that all calls are considered static, ie all programs are in the same executable module.The -fnull-param directive tells the compiler to add a null parameter to end of a call statement.When the two directives were used together and the nested programs appeared in the source code error the following error was reported:Compile error:/tmp/cob12742_5.c: In function <source module>:/tmp/cob12742_5.c:179:5: error: too many arguments to function <called module>(*(int *) (b_10)) = routine (b_19, NULL, NULL);^/tmp/cob12742_5.c:35:5: note: declared hereint routine (unsigned char *);Where:<source module>: - name of the source module that is being compiled.<called module>: - name of a nest program that has been called. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000011682#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

I would like to write a small Windows program for myself with a very short list of requirements (that I am aware of): I am not the least bit interested in OO It must access an embedded database like MS Access. It must be a Windows Form application with standard controls like edit, grid, button, etc. I've never seen Eclipse so Visual Studio is my preferred IDE. I assume I can achieve this with the Visual COBOL Person Edition, correct? I am confused by the choice of NATIVE vs MANAGED. Does it matter in my case? Considering my project, what are the merits of one over the other? If someone is aware of a tutorial or book that can take me through the process, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.#VisualStudio#managed#VisualCOBOL#nativecobol

For the last two days I have been trying unsuccessfully to download Visual COBOL PE. The email address and password I had previously used fails with a mismatch error. So, I changed the password which produced the same results. So, I used a different email address and password, and it still fails. I've changed passwords on both accounts multiple times which produced the same results. Obviously, the original email/password combination is still able to get me into the Community to post this message. Is that portion of the site having difficulties or am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions? Thanks.#error#PersonalEdition#login

Hello, I am working on a trial version of Visual Cobol 8.0 since yesterday and I have a "homework" including PostGre database. I designed something very simple : a table "Individuals" whose columns are : first name, last name, birth date, creation timestamp, last update timestamp. I designed the table with pgAdmin 4. Does someone designed a visual cobol program accessing this kind of database ? If not, did someone create a program with Oracle database access ? My goal is to understand how precompilators work, how they replace SQL language by library calls (here, for Oracle or, better, PostGre). I used to work on Cobol batch programs with DB2 SQL, on Mainframe environment (z/OS), but the DB2 database, JCL, compilators, and so on, were already there. I didn't have to care about all this stuff because it was in the hand of database architects, mainframe architects, and so on. Thank you for your help, Didier

Execution error : file 'direct'error code: 114, pc=0, call=1, seg=0114     Attempt to access item beyond bounds of memory (Signal 11) I have been using Microfocus Server Express 5.1 WP 15. It gives error when I am trying to compile cobols. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!!

Hoy intenté actualizar en mi PC la versión 7.0 de Visual Cobol a la versión 8.0, ejecutando el proceso vcvs2019_80.exe, y anteriormente no he desinstalado la 7.0. No he recibido ningún mensaje de que debo desinstalar previamente el 7.0, y cuando está terminando la instalación da un error de falla de instalación 0x80131509, no termina la instalación y genera un archivo de registro. La instalación conservó mis datos de licencia, pero VS2019 no reconoce las soluciones de VC que ya tenía. Intenté realizar una reparación de VC 2019 8.0 y devuelve el mismo error 0x80131509. He reiniciado y los errores continúan. ¿Cómo puedo hacer una instalación limpia de VC8.0 sin perder la licencia? Incluso si desinstalo VC8.0 y lo vuelvo a instalar, aparece el error 0x80131509 al final de la instalación. ¿Alguna pista de cómo solucionarlo?#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION

One of our servers we are seeing this error in the Event Viewer, "The Micro Focus Fileshare Service: PRSRV service is marked as an interactive service. However, the system is configured to not allow interactive services. This service may not function properly." This is the only error we are seeing in the Event viewer and looks like it's causing the application to lose connection with Micro Focus server. Has gotten this before? Thanks in advance.

Today I tried to update in my PC the version 7.0 of Visual Cobol to version 8.0, running the process vcvs2019_80.exe, and previously I have not uninstalled the 7.0. I have not received any message that I should previously uninstall the 7.0, and when it is finishing the installation gives an installation failure error 0x80131509, it does not finish the installation, and generates a log file. The installation has kept my license data, but VS2019 does not recognize the VC solutions I already had. I have tried to perform a repair of VC 2019 8.0 and it returns the same 0x80131509 error. I have restarted, and the errors continue. How can I do a clean install of VC8.0 without losing the license. Even if I uninstall VC8.0, and reinstall it again, the error 0x80131509 appears at the end of the installation. Any clue how to solve it?Regards #Other

Hi Team,  While setting up the remote development support from ED. I am getting license issue though we have valid license installed on the same machine. We have mapped system IP to localhost and also we ran ./MFLicenseServerInstall.sh force.  Please help me on the below issue while running $COBDIR/remotedev/startrdodaemon on linux terminal. Thanks. [root@my-VM safenet]# $COBDIR/remotedev/startrdodaemon Error - Product build environment incorrectly set Error output was:*1889-S** License failure: no license available.cob64: error(s) in compilation: cobcheckinstall973214.cbl[root@my-VM safenet]# $COBDIR/remotedev/startrdodaemon 4999 Error - Product build environment incorrectly set Error output was:*1889-S** License failure: no license available.cob64: error(s) in compilation: cobcheckinstall974221.cbl#Setuponlinux#Microfocus#unix#Eclipse#Linux#EnterpriseDeveloper#linkedserver#Installation

Hi, I have to integrate my invoicing application with a cash payment device (CASH DRO3). I still can't understand how I get the result of the operation in JSON format. I ask for your help once again to try to overcome this situation. I have the supplier's instructions but I can't send them through this post. Best regardsAlberto Ferraz

Good evening all,  Just to give some brief context, I am upgrading our DEV and PROD servers. The idea is to have them running Visual Cobol 8 and SQL Server 2019. The problem is that I am having issue with ONE single table regarding accents as we can see below. Below I will explain what I did and I will show that nothing changed regarding my setup. 1) I cloned and upgraded our DEV server from RHEL7 + SQL Server 2012 + Visual Cobol 4.11 to RHEL8 + SQL Server 2019 + Visual Cobol 8. 2) I verified all the parameters to be sure that they are the same after the update. What I verified so far: - the environment variable LANG: on both servers we use en_US - the SQL server collation: on both servers we use SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS - the database collation: on both servers we use SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN In other words I am using the very same config on both servers and I am understanding why I am having issue with accents. Has anyone here experienced the

After updating my windows 11 21H2 to 22H2 over the microsoft channel, netexpress 5.1 has no license after rebooting. Do Microfocus have a solution for this? What can we do before and after? Thanks for help!

When using Acu4GL for ODBC and using the MySQL ODBC driver version 8.0.28+, programs fail when inserting data.An error is returned: *** S1000: [MySQL][ODBC 8.0(a) Driver][mysqld-8.0.30]Column 'ftestcnd_key' cannot be null *** In the log it looks like the program is trying to insert null in every field: 09:34:28.552264 <SQL 09:34:28.552267 insert into ftestdat (ftestcnd_key, ftest_key1_seg1, ftest_key1_seg2, ftest 09:34:28.552269 nd_altkey2, ftestcnd_number, ftestcnd_info, ftestcnd_in) values (null, 09:34:28.552272 null, null, null, null, null, null) 09:34:28.552274 EndSQL> Testing MySQL ODBC driver 8.0.20 the program works OK and doesn’t try to insert NULL in every field: 10:08:02.576015 <SQL 10:08:02.576018 insert into ftestdat (ftestcnd_key, ftest_key1_seg1, ftest_key1_seg2, 10:08:02.576021 ftestcnd_altkey2, ftestcnd_number, ftestcnd_info, ftestcnd_in) values 10:08:02.576023 ('0503', '05', '05', '0503', '000005.00', null, '03') 10:08:02.576026 EndSQL> Why has the behaviou

It's not 100% clear what exact steps to take to setup IIS with AcuToWeb so that traffic is routed through IIS correctly. What needs to be done? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000011382#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Net Express 5.1 is already installed or not installed at all, and it needs to be installed with its latest update. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000011453#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

READ NEXT returns the same record that was retrieved from a prior direct key read on a file that uses Database Connectors. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000011448#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

A program fails to launch and reports the following error:The procedure entry point procedure_entry_point_name could not be located in the dynamic link library COBOL_runtime_dllWhere: procedure_entry_point_name could be mF_acufh_init, _mFerr3, _mFgmain2, mF_ld_dynlnk_lib_check, etc. COBOL_runtime_dll could be either cblrtss.dll or cblrtsm.dll Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000011445#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs