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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 03 February 2005]His there a way to rebuild a file that has a error 98 in a program cobol and asking the peoble that want to open the file wirh error 98 to wait until the rebuild has finish!:(

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 10 February 2005]Can anyone help me out? I'm getting this message using ACU4GL with Oracle 9i 64-bits. This thosen't happen all the time, but it's quite usual in some longer processes.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 08 October 2004]Attached is a sample acucobol program for getting info on available memory in windows. It gets system memory information by calling the windows API. This can be useful in memory usage measurement. For instance, it may be useful to know how much free memory is available before running a program that would require a certain minimum amount of free memory.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 16 November 2004]we are testing our software with ACUCONNECT/THINCLIENT and we have a slide problem with enviroment variables.And we want to have the MAC ADRESS so we can get a unique number.So how can I get the MAC adress ?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 15 July 2004]Hello!Is there any way screens can be set to cascade so at least part of all of them can be seen and not fully covered up by subsequent screens?Thanks

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 19 August 2004]Nice review for Acucorp here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/26/13TCcobol_1.htmlShows that they are right up there with Microfocus, although the two development tools have differing strengths. Near future Extend versions will close the gap by tightning integration with component adapters and allow use of .NET components.It's nice to see more press for Acucorp. :)

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 09 September 2004]Has anyone had any experience with apache 2 running Linuxusing Cobol CGI, I have got everything installed and workingusing a shell script to call the cobol program, This seems to work fine except sometimes, you have to refresh a page 2 or 3 times before the program is called, this is a sporadic problem and is not always on the same program call, Please is there a specific setting in the apache config file that needs to be set to stop this ?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 24 November 2004]For those who work with or want to work with Microsoft Office:Microsoft has jus released a new set of documentation of the VBA Language references for Microsoft Office. These may be accessed online or even as a download.If you are interested, you will find both downloadable and online versions at this link:http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/downloads/vba/default.aspxGisle

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 02 September 2004]I am about to begin a project to integrate the Volcollect Talkman T2 voice terminals to our Warehouse Management software. These terminals are network clients that will connect to the unix server using sockets. They have no screen or keyboard. The operator will 'wear' a headset and microphone. Rather than displaying instructions the WMS will instruct the T2 terminals to 'say' instructions, to which the operator will respond with simple voiced responses.I am hoping to use the C$Socket library to manage the communication sessions.If anyone has any experience of using the Vocollect terminals then I will be grateful for any advice/ guidance or otherwise that is offered.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 30 July 2004]I would like to be able to add, delete, and move items in a treeview in an application as it is done in the screen developer treeview "editor".Any suggestions or samples out there?ThanksVins Nash

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 02 August 2004]I know many others have given good reviews on the Advanced Windows API / Active-X class that AcuCorp has sometimes. I attended this class this summer and I wanted to recommend it to those of you who seem to hit roadblocks with standard AcuCorp technology and need to work with Windows more.I am able to do even more with AcuCorp products after attending this class! I went in to the class expecting to learn enough to handle future Windows platform issues. Instead, I came out of the class solving current Windows platform issues!Gisle is the instructor and does a wonderful job. Of course, everyone else at AcuCorp makes you feel at home and are helpful as well. I would encourage people to go to this class. It's not for everyone, but if your company is developing in Windows, someone in your organization needs to learn how to do some of this stuff!Rob

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 October 2004]We are getting "sharing violation" messages on some projects when attempting to generate code. We are using 6.1, Windows 98 and a Vision SF set up on a Unix server.Anyone else experiencing this problem.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 27 February 2004]Just curious if anyone has attempted to write a very simple web server with c$socket. I thought perhaps it would be a good show piece of what can be done with c$socket from the server end.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 24 March 2004]We have been able run our application in other languages besides English (Japanese, Korean, Hebrew) but only on localized versions of Windows or with the code-page on an english version of windows set to the specific language needed. This works great for companies that only need the one language but for companies that need to be able to input and work with multiple languages, this does not work. It seems to be an issue in that the Acucobol Runtime is a non-unicode program and so can only support one language at a time. Microsoft has a program called AppLocale that apparently uses their program compatability stuff in XP and 2003 to change the code page of a specific running application. This is half of the solution. It would allow our program to be run in several different languages on the same system, but someone with Japanese as their language would see text in Korean as unreadable. We also looked at the MUI stuff avail

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 March 2004]We frequently modify the fd but when we transfert the xfd that has change on oracle he give us a error.I searching a way to add the new variable to table.The size off the table don't change.Ex.OLD FD FD EMP. 01 EMP-REC. 05 EMP-CLE. 10 EMP-CODE PIC X(10). 05 EMP-NAME PIC X(40). 05 FILLER PIC X(100).NEW FD FD EMP. 01 EMP-REC. 05 EMP-CLE. 10 EMP-CODE PIC X(10). 05 EMP-NAME PIC X(40). 05 ADDRESS PIC X(40). 05 FILLER PIC X(60).

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 19 April 2004]Acuthin connected via a static IP address over an ADSL line. When my application is left idle for a time, e.g. accept screen, the ADSL line closes down disconnecting the application from the server. I am told that Acuthin does not keep constant communication with the Acurcl and as we are not using VPN, it will disconnect, when the ADSL line goes to sleep!.Has anyone got a neat solution?Ideally I would like a neat way to program my application to constantly keep in touch with the server, even while the app is waiting for the user, who has gone to lunch, to complete screen input.Thanks

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 26 May 2004]Has anyone run into the compiler warning message:"sign specified for non-numeric item"?Does anyone know what it refers to?Thanks!!

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 26 March 2004]I am currently working on a issue related to extracting all text strings in the programs to a Vision file, so that the system can depending on a language code and a Text ID look up in this table and get the appropriate text string and return it to the program.Syntax today 01 WS-VARIABLE Pic X(50). Move "This is a test string" To WS-VARIABLESyntax in the future (i hope) 01 WS-VARIABLE Pic X(50). 01 WS-LANG-CODE Pic X(3) Value "ENG".* 1234 is the text id in the vision file of text * string ""This is a test string" Move (Call "GETTEXTSTRPROG" Using WS-LANG-CODE , 1234) To WS-VARIABLEThis is how i hope it could work. The reason why i would like it like this i because I have over 3000 programs to do this in, and if i could program it like shown above, I could just write a conversion program for the source code and replace all strings with a number, and if i change the

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 25 February 2004]Our company is evaulating replacing file specific declaratives with the general open mode declaratives.So,USE AFTER STANDARD ERROR on FILE-XYZbecomesUSE AFTER STANDARD ERROR ON INPUTThere is one problem, though. The generic declaratives do not catch I/O statements for files that have not yet been opened. Is there a way to do this without making a file-specific declarative?example:* following line is commented by mistake* open input TEST-FILE * is there a way to catch the following statement with a generic declarative (one that does not explictly name TEST-FILE)?read TEST-FILE key is TEST-KEYIf this is not possible, the generic declaratives are fairly useless, becuase they only catch a subset of errors that occur in normal operation.Thanks in advance...Merlin

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 February 2004]Vitalworks Inc.Office: Daytona Beach, FloridaApply at: http://www.vitalworks.com/employment.htmlDescription: Conduct full range of programming tasks, including program design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation for standard application programs.Perform analysis and design for custom programs and maintenance of existing programs.Utilizing company standards, write technical specs, program and test interfaces.Overtime and pager coverage as needed. Requirements: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.Three (3) years programming/analysis in business applications.Anesthesiology and/or pain management accounts receivable practice management experience. PC-based Cobol, Windows NT, Terminal Services experience.Experience in business applications programming and analysis.Experience in data requirements necessary for data manipulation to produce desired output and to troubleshoot

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 16 April 2004]We have been using the libvision.a static library, but have a requirement for a shared-object version of the library so we can link it with a dynamically-loaded piece of code on Linux (we currently do this on Windows with no problems). Is there a shared object version of the Vision API for Linux?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 April 2004]Dear Reader,We use AcuConnect and everything functions, but we experience two problems, which subject does not show up in the documentation:1) When a thin-client application is inactive, it stops running after 5 - 7 minutes. So I have it open on my desktop, then I e.g. have to check something on the Acucorp website, and when I want to return, I find out that the application is not there anymore. I seems to me there is a timeout problem. I'm checking the two TC-variables TC_CHECK_ALIVE_INTERVAL and TC_SERVER_TIMEOUT for this.2) We have noticed that when lots of screen information has to be passed to the client, the system suddenly freezed in the middle of the screen update. It looks like a kind of overrun.I miss information about these two subjects in the manuals, so I hope there is someone around who has more experience with AcuConnect and can tell more about these issues.Ren

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 August 2003]Proceed at your own risk!There is a simple method to bypass Acubench's protection logic that only allows a single instance of Acubench on your system. I played with it and everything seems to work fine, but who knows?Step #1: Open acubench as you normally wouldStep #2: right click on acubench executable (Acubench60.exe) and click Run as...Step #3: select 'the following user' and choose a user who is anyobdy but yourself. Of course, you must have the password for that user and that user must have permissions to operate normally on your machine (especially local login).Thats it! Acubench will most likely pop up with the default .ini settings. Your .ini settings are in your 'documents and settings' folder, so look for them to make acubench work the way you want.Merlin

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 15 December 2003]Does anyone have a sample of the code necessary to delete a record from a SQL Server table?The code I'm using:EXEC SQL DELETE tbl_XXXX WHERE tbl_XXXX_Field1 = :WS-FIELD1END-EXECreturns an error message of"Parse error at tbl_XXXX"when I compile the programThanks!!

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 06 October 2003]Hello,I use acurcl / thinclient ( UNIX Server , Windows client) and in order to configure my access, I have to use the acurcl's interface.If I had few, ok , I could use it, but when you have more than 20 users ( in fact 70 for me with more than one access authorization) it become impossible.So I asked for, to Acucorp FRANCE, the acuaccess file description to write a cobol program interface ( not the crypting key, only the FD and SL).The answer of San diego is NO, nothing more !! so i am wondering... If acucorp do not want to give me theses elements may be it's because they are working on an interface smart and easy-to-use ? So Ok but quickly... because for our customers ...this configuration's interface is obligatory (prohibitive)...May be some others users have not still encountered the disadvantage... they could think about that.