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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 November 2007]We are noticing that Acubench seems inconsistent in its use of line terminators in PSF files (and resulting CBL files, etc.).It seems that some lines are terminated with CR LF and some just with LF.This wouldn't be so bad, except that it seems that regenerating a form results in different terminators than it had before.The resulting mishmash of line terminators is giving our version control system (subversion) fits. Or, more correctly, it's giving us fits.Anyone else experiencing similar issues? Anyone have any suggestions?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 December 2007]I have been trying to use sendmessage to send key strokes to our thin client I've only been able to change the hwnd of the parent and child windows. I have tried to find the hwnd of the textbox (I know nothing about acucobol so forgive me if my terms are incorrect) but I can only find the hwnd of the parent window and child window. I am a production worker trying to combine several step into one with vb. The IT dept wouldn't approve of me trying this so I haven't gone to them for help. My luck they probably check this forum regularly and guess that its me. I can't tell you a lot about thin client, I don't know if all thin clients are the same or not, but ours is just a "copy" of our old DG system, you enter a number at the flashing cursor and hit enter to go to the next screen then type in another number or text and hit enter and so on. Keystroke is the only way to interact with the thin clien

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 13 November 2007]If "Files (*.)|*." use as a filter, files do not appear.Why?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 August 2007]We are currently looking for a programmer/developer for our small IT based company providing on-line debt recovery services in Lancashire, England. If you know someone who might be interested please email me at nick@colsys.net

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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 13 July 2007]Up today we used the "wrun32.exe" only with IIS4, IIS5 and IIS6.The new IIS7, which is used in Vista and Server2008, seems to pass no parameter to the "wrun32.exe".Thus a call like “wrun32.exe -f does not xx.out” is no longer possible.Also an environment variable A_CGI does not lead to success, since the IIS7 does not continue to give these to the "wrun32.exe".Since A_CGI can not occur in the CBLCONFI, I do not find a possibility, how to configure the Runtime for the service of CGIs.Which further possibilities do I have?RegardsFrank-Peter Clees

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 July 2007]Hi, My partner and I are stuck on trying to extract the column text values from an application that was created in AcuBench. We are using QTP to test the application but it does not read the text that is in the column within the grid. It only sees the entire grid as one object and does not have row and column properties for that object. Are there any other tools that support AcuCobol that we could use to test the application? Thank you for any help in advance.Gene

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 01 November 2007]Good Morning:Does anyone can bring some help about ACUSORT utility:1. How set the environment variables like ACUSORT_TRACE or dd_SYSOUT2. Where to put these variables (The utility command-line dosen't support parameters like -c config)3. Nor the manuals neither the help tell about it.I'been testing this utility from command-line, with or without 'take' file andwithin a AcuCobol program thru C$SYSTEM routine.It works fine in every optionl except for point 1 (above).Thanks in advance.CB52 "from the Pampas" (again).-

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 02 July 2007]Anyone know how to programmatically drive the inbuilt WIndows compress files utilities?Long file names are such a drag with most of the PKZIPs and likewise of the world.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 26 September 2007]We have installed a new RedHat Linux server in a local gigabit network using Samba to provide network services for the Windows PCs. Copying files between server and PCs works very fast, but when it comes to accessing Vision files on the server from AcuCobol applications on the PCs, it is very slow.Earlier we used Mandrake Linux and this was much faster on a 100Mbit network. So, we wonder if anyone knows how to speed up access on a RedHat.The PCs are running Windows Vista Business, but we also tried Windows XP with aqually results./Lars-Bo

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 October 2007]Hello everyone, I read that Acu4GL for SQL server was reengeniered in current version 8.0. Has someone already tested it? How are performances with SQLServer 2005 in comparisons with Vision File or with DBMaker DCI?Thanks in Advance, Giovanni

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 09 August 2007]I actually managed to find a link on MSDN that set you straight to the office VBA documentation. For those who are interested: [INDENT]msdn2.microsoft.com/.../aa155054.aspx[/INDENT] Note that there are many office versions, but Office XP documentation is as good as any.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 19 September 2007]Sorry my English, When i generate this program in Acubench 7.0.1, acubench display a error box and say me Open/Create c:\\example\\copylib\\program1.evt file error . I know how correct this problem , but is take a some time. (Create Form1, put dummy variable in working-storage, paste this code in your form1-aft-init-data paragraph "move "Example" to dummy(function length dummy:) dummy. | I know this is wrong)" and compile it ) 1-Close Acubench 2-Edit program_name.psf 3-Insert "*" beginning of the error line 4-Save program_name.psf 5-Edit program_name.evt 6-Insert "*" beginning of the error line 7-Save program_name.evt 8-Reopen project 9-Generate program_name ...... Did is corrected in 7.2.0 or other version of Acubench ? Thanks.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 September 2007]We are developing software that will be specifically designed to work from a touch screen monitor and wondered if anyone had found a good plug in for a touch screen keypad and/or keyboard. I've seen some 3rd party software that does this already but wanted to touch base with the users who visit this site since someone may have already found a good package to do this. We are also looking at creating our own screens to handle this function, but in some ways it would just be easier to call out to another application that already has the keyboard/keypad look and feel plus the ability to do all the editing and returning of values.thanks, MikeProgrammer/Analyst Summit Software, Inc.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 September 2007]estoy tratando de ejecutar este comando desde un programa cobol, pero tengo los siguitentes inconvenientes al hacerlo.En el SO UBUNTU el comando se intenta ejecutar pero da el siguiente error,sh no se esta redireccionando a un lugar inexistente.y en SO SUSE el comando se ejecuta normalmente sin dar ningun error pero no devuelve nada.este es el comando./usr/bin/nc -w 3 ip 10550 << repuesta.txtgracias anticipadas

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 16 October 2007]C$SOCKET hangs up with certain SMTP servers that authenticate on AGS-READ. Furthermore, the 'timval' parameter which is supposed to abort C$SOCKET does not work.Has anyone else experienced this problem? Any suggested solutions?~Jim DuLaneyPassport Software

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 June 2007]HelloWe are having a problem that we can't resolve. We have a program that is using print previews. When the print preview appears and you click on the Close button, the preview closes and then reappears. We have to click the Close button again to get the preview to disappear for good. Has anyon had this problem? We would appreciate any help!!Thanks

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 08 March 2007]Hello Everyone, has anyone experienced some Flowchart ActiveX/.Net Component/Java Component with Acu?TIA Giovanni.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 June 2007]Hello, Is it possible to control the size of the print preview? I have a routine that displays two print previews, one after the other. The first one is the size of the display screen that calls the preview. When the first preview is closed, the second one displays as a small box on the top right corner of the crt. Why is it not the same size as the first preview? Can I programmatically control the size of the preview?Thanks!!:confused:

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 April 2007]I am exporting data to Excel using the Application, Workbook, Worksheet and Range objects. I was able to set the Header and Footers for the current version of Excel(2003) that I have on my computer. The code that I am using isMODIFY EX-WORKSHEET @PageSetup::LeftHeader = GUI-HEADER-TITLE.MODIFY EX-WORKSHEET @PageSetup::LeftFooter = FOOTER-DATE.MODIFY EX-WORKSHEET @PageSetup::CenterFooter = PROJECT-NAME.MODIFY EX-WORKSHEET @PageSetup::RightFooter = %P.So currently when I do the export to Excel and print the Excel spreadsheet, it will print the header and footers correctly.Now I just tested this on Excel 2007 and I get an error when my program hits the above code and will not continue with the export to Excel. According to the online documentation on the MSDN website about Excel 2007, the PageSetup property is part of the Worksheet Object, so I am not sure why I am getting an error? Error I am gettting is "Unable to set

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 April 2007]I have written an AcuCobol 7.2 program that uses Acu4GL for ODBC to extract daily transactions that are stored in a Pervasive SQL 2000 database on a Windows 2003 server. The program works fine, accessing the appropriate table and reading the records (rows). The problem is that it is incredibly slow!The process takes more than 2.5 hours to sequentially read 12,000 transactions in a test environment. Once in production, the daily transaction count will be 75,000 transactions across several company databases. Obviously, I need a different approach.I don't know if I should continue to search for a solution within AcuCobol or perform some sort of utility operation outside of AcuCobol. My preference is to use AcuCobol because all the criteria that defines which records should be extracted from the Pervasive databases are defined by information stored in Vision files. Additionally, the supplier of the software using the Pervasi

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 02 April 2007]Hi, Recently, our company had a meet to talk about how things are doing and we reach the conclusion that we aren't doing well with acubench.I start this thread to see how all of you (or who wants to answer :p ) works with the acubench to see if we are doing wel or at least known of other ways to workl, because in some cases we are getting a too low development speed.Where we are a bit slow is in screen design. Normally, to create a new program, we copy paste the .psf and .wrk and start modifying the screen and i have some questions:- We loose a lot of time deleting the events asigned to a control in the screen and in the .evt, acubench is a bit slow in that aspect or at least the way we use it, selecting the control, going to event tab, entering in the "..." button (it takes a bit to open the .evt for each control and event) and deleting the code we not going to use in that control. And all of this using the mou

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2007]Instructor-led Training AcuConnect? Thin Client Acucorp's Office, Twickenham June 12, 2007 Led by our team of experienced systems engineers, Acucorp's instructor-led courses provide intensive training on a wide variety of extend?7 development and deployment solutions. Held at Acucorp's office in Twickenham, the one-day workshop include practical tutorials and exercises.This course offers a comprehensive look at AcuConnect, Acucorp?s versatile remote COBOL listener, running in Thin Client mode. It includes:Installing and set-up on server and client machines Configuration and administration of AcuConnect Troubleshooting Thin Client connectionsSet-up, configuration and use of the Auto Update featureProgramming best practices for developing applications that work effectively within a Thin Client environment Please contact your Sales Professional to register or for more information at 44 (0) 20.8843.7100.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 01 March 2007]I am trying to setup a website that interactes with the ERP data files in real time. The only way I see possible is if I connect a Microsoft SQL Server to to the ERP system via AcuODBC. Can I setup SQL Server as a client to the ERP's ODBC datasource. If I can, I can build the website around the MS SQL Server and perform queries on the SQL server to read and write data to it. This should result in the data being written back the ERP system. Is this understand correct? I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 07 March 2007]Hello,i have a little problem with the Web-Browser control.I created a programm with only a web-browser control - all works fine... the only problem i have is that the focused buttons in the web-page aren't terminated when the enter key is pressed.The programm recive that enter is pressed but not the web-browser control, have i any chance to forward the enter-key to the browser-control?I tested a little bit to change the keystroke for the enter-key but no success :(David