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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 21 February 2012]Hi,i am currently using server express 5.0 on sun solaris. developing a C application which getting request from an infinite loop TCP interface and accessing a legacy Cobol library accordingly.I have a question on necessity of cobcancel. after calling cobol library do i have to call cobcancel? When cobcancel is called, process CPU utilization gets to on a non-root user with default process priorities whereas when cobcancel is not called, CPU utilization gets up to at most which is sufficient for the time being?When cobcancel is not called, does that produce memory leak or any other side-effects or run-time errors on application?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 01 March 2012]Hello!I have created a class in a .NET dll file. This class inherits another class, a base class.I want to set some properties that are implemented in the base class. When I make a definition file using NETDEFGEN, only selecting the child class, I dont get an definition of the properties. If I also select to include the base class in my definition file, I get a description of the properties. But refering to the child class, I dont get to set them anyway. How can i set this values?Must I first create the base class, set the properties and then create the child class? But how is the two then linked together?The exact situation is the dll "System.ServiceModel.dll".This has a class "WSHttpBinding", that inherits the base class "WSHttpBindingBase".In the base class, there is two properties I want to set, for instance "MaxBufferPoolSize".How can this be set?Regards Dagl

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 10 February 2012]I recently had to set up CGI with IIS 7.5 on a Win. 7 Pro and a WIN 2008 server. Since the Micro Focus instructions are IIS 5 on Win 2000 server, I thought someone may be able to benefit from my ordeal.The instructions are rough but here they are:If this is a new machine, confirm that wrun32.exe is operational from the desk top.Download and install Microsoft Web Platform Installer.www.microsoft.com/.../platform.aspxRun Web Platform Installer and choose IIS 7 Recommended Configuration.Follow this link for directions to install the CGI module.www.iis.net/.../cgiStart IIS and right click the "Default Web Site" in the Connections Panel (right).Choose "Add Application" from the pop-up menu.Type cgi-bin or the name of your choosing in the "Alias" field.Type the path to the folder containing wrun32.exe.Accept the defaults for "Application pool" and "Pass-through authentication".Cl

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 06 January 2012]Hello,I have problems using a C library under RHEL5, serverexpress 5.I installed the libharu library to be able to create pdf files. Very easy : from the libharu.org/.../Downloads I downloaded the last stable version, then configure, make, make install and the library is installed. I checked with C examples from the libharu site : a simple compile using gcc font_demo.c -l hpdfdoes the job and the program generates the pdf file.I used h2cpy to generate properly the types according to libharu .h files. In fact, most of the functions work with pointers (maybe, that's my problem).I created a small cobol sample program which is the translation of a C demo file font_demo.cbl.No problem at compliation time using :cob -x font_demo.cbl -l hpdfIt even runs without problem, except that the final results are completly wrong!! At the beginning of the program, it asks for the size of the page which should be (841, 595) and I find neg

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 January 2012]Good afternoon,I have two old applications developed in Microfocus Cobol v3.1.11, and I´d like to update these applications to Visual Cobol R3 or if it would be possible to .NET technology.Is there any application or support that helps me to do this in the easiest way?Thanks in advance for your help.Best regards, Mabel

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 16 January 2012]Hello,Is there any way to obtain the trace (the execution tree) from a program that invokes several other COBOL modules?Regards

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 10 January 2012]Hello,In our current RM / COBOL system, we are using the software Relativity; it is the software that allows the construction of a true relational database using COBOL application data. I have tried the Relativity Software with files generated by VisualCobol Programs (that work with the RM/COBOL file handler), and it works correctly.My question is...Will We have support and maintenance for this software in the future? That is, when support for the RM / COBOL system is no longer available...Exists or will exist some software that does the same job?Thank you

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 17 December 2011]What is this?? Don't understand how you get I/O problem with a delete. I am running the "cleanspool" job twice a week. Is this a data catalog problem? How would I find out? Help...

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 22 December 2011]I am trying to run simple Java Program Hello World which has a call to simple Cobol Subroutine hello.cblThe instructions in Visual Cobol documents say to first load library. I do understand, how do i load this library. I have build the project and Eclipse has created one hello.idy file. Should this file be in the class path of my Java program. How do i load this library. I am using Visual COBOL 2010 with Eclipse and on Windows.Any help on this would be very valuable

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 November 2011]Sorry about it, How could I delete my topic? I changed my mind and want to remove this post?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 October 2011]I am looking for information on MFA Sync Monitor. Do Micro Focus sell this product seprately. Can anybody point me to some pointers (documentation/Contact Person).

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 03 October 2011]Hello!We have recently started to research and use AcuSQL. We use AcuSQL to export reporting data to a SQL Server for reporting issues. This is meant for a HQ solution, wich will gather data for several companies.As the use of this is for HQ reporting, we need to open a connection to a central, remote SQL Server. Therefore, we need to connect to a SQL Server that is residing on a remote maching on the same network. Possibly also through the internet.My question is; how can this be done? Has someone else tried this?We have tried to put the adress of the computer in front of the servername/instancename. But we cant make it work.Example:move "\\\\\\\\" to servernamemove "" to useridmove "" to passwdEXEC SQL CONNECT TO :servername as sqlConn USER :userid USING :passwd END-EXECI would be very grateful if someone could give me a hint.Regards Dagl

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 September 2011]Hello,I'm getting freeze problems in my program when i do:perform in thread Lectura_Scanner handle in scanner-threaduntil scanner-activo-no       Lectura_Scanner section.       Lectura_Scanner_1.                      initialize sca-envio-scanner.           call "s$balanza" using by content sca-puerto                                  by content sca-envio-scanner                                  by content sca-velocidad                                  by content sca-paridad                &nb

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 August 2011]Does anyone have experience with installing net express 5.1 on a windows PC (XP) that connects to a UNIX infrastructure for compiling and debugging? I can get the debugger to step thru when debugging but can't get it to run thru the program. The complier works fine. Is this because we are not connecting to a windows database or process scheduler and the application is running on windows? Any advice, comments or help would be greatly appreciated. I have tried numerous tips out on the web to no avail so I figured posing the question out on this forum couldn’t hurt... thank you.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 January 2011]Hi All, The new forum is now opened, you find it at: community.microfocus.com/Home I welcome you all to start registering and using the new forum. This forum (http://www.acucorp.com/support/supported/customer_forum) will be turned into readonly over the weekend. Gisle

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 26 August 2011]Hello,I went through some posts regarding converting Dialog system screens to web forms but didn't find anything concrete. Does Micro Focus has any recommendation or component in the later releases of Net Express/Studio Enterprise Edition to support migration from Dialog system to web forms? As per my understanding, Dialog System has been retired and one possible way is to expose the business logic as web service and get it integrated into the newly built web forms.I would appreciate the response from anyone who has any prior experience in this regard.regards

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 26 August 2011]On AIX we are currently running with Server Express 5.1. We use the basic command-line compiler and animator and expect to do the same going forward.Can someone explain the upgrade path to keep doing the same on Visual COBOL?Thanks

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 27 August 2011]I'm running a Program and send me this error:ERROR: (10) Requested main program entry point not found Done building project "glclinat.cblproj" -- FAILED.What I have to put on this Box (Entry Point Box)? or What this error means.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 09 September 2011]Has anyone used the property SENDUSINGACCOUNT of Outlook to indicate the sender account?It lets you choose a different account from the default account of your Outlook. This property appears in Outlook 2007.Once I have found in my Outlook the account I want to use, I have it in my handle "olaccount".Then I want to set this property:modify olmail @sendusingaccount is olaccountWhen I finally send my e-mail, the sender address is the default account, not the account I chose.Can anyone help me? Thank you! :-)

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 July 2010]I'm trying to implement the Mouse Wheel in my Paged Grids.I service the event(s) and Modify the grid field to with Action-Next or Action-Previous, and that seems to work OK.I enhanced it so the if the operator holds the Ctrl Key while wheeling, then I Modify the grid field Performing the logic 4 times. That works .... except if I really spin it, I end up getting a "Perform Stack Overflow" error. I'm guessing the Wheel Spin events are coming so fast, my grid display logic is not keeping up, and a race condition is occurring.So I try to use the EVENT-LIST along with EXCLUDE-EVENT-LIST to disable and enable the MSG-PAGED-NEXT/PREV-WHEEL events, and the "Stack overflow" errors go away, ..... but all other events associated to the grid are also disabled.Here is the coding:GRIDLKUP-EVENT-HANDLER. EVALUATE EVENT-TYPE WHEN MSG-GOTO-CELL PERFORM IDENTIFY-OP-SELECTED-CELL

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 25 November 2010]Does anyone know of a way (active-x, etc) of displaying expanding/collapsing columns on the screen in a way similar to Excel? For example I want a chart of accounts displayed with the control accounts and 12 months of balances on each row, then if you expand, show each sub-account with 12 months of balances related to the parent control account.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 October 2010]I was reading around in the forum and found some mention of Masked Entry Fields (Microsoft ActiveX component that is on the bench install dvd??) but I can't find this on the install disks we have.I have attempted to use the Additional Properties and/or the Format Picture. I have found various success in displaying the information as I wanted but in the end when a user goes back to edit what was in the field it is strange.For an example think of Social Security Numbers Entry Field:1. Value is PIC 9(09)2. Format Picture is 999B99B99993. Additional Properties is "blank when zeros"Anyone else have success doing this type of display one way and save another without using Before and After procedures to manipulate the data by hand?Thanks

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 22 June 2010]Hello,I have a paged list-box on a small amount of data (200 or so records). We use the paged version to allow our users the ability to type in the code they're looking for and narrow down the list.The problem I am having is after the first letter is typed (the event fires and the list is moved to that letter), no other letters typed fire an event. I have logging and can see the event being fired on the first letter, but nothing else gets fired.Is there something I am missing? My list box is declared like this: 03 list-1, list-box using list-data, paged, 3-d NOTIFY-DBLCLICK line 3, col 1, size 40, lines page-size, upper, data-columns = ( 1, 7) display-columns = ( 1, 9).Thanks.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 16 November 2010]Does anyone know of any tools/utilities that can be used to determine how much bandwidth an Acucobol application uses when connected to the a user's PC via acuthin? I have a potential customer who needs this information to specify the VPN link to our site. Thanks

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 10 November 2010]I hope i will find somebody that is kind enought to translate in cobol that codeThank you!En VBS l'utilisation de la fonction Create_Object s'impose : Dim oSkype 'As Skype 'L'objet public Sypeinit_Skype'Appel par exemple de la fen?tre profil de l'utilisateur connect? sur Skype :oSkype.Client.OpenDialog ("PROFILE")------------------------------------'' Init_Skype :' Fonction d'initialisation Skype permet de lancer le client skype' si celui-ci ne l'est pas et effectue la "connection" du projet ? l'API Skype.'--------------------------------------------------'Sub init_Skype() Set oSkype = WScript.CreateObject("Skype4COM.Skype",") If Not oSkype.Client.IsRunning Then oSkype.Client.Start End If While Not oSkype.Client.IsRunning DoEvents 'Attente d?marrage client Skype WendEnd SubEn VBS (code simplifi? en con