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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 01 September 2011]Hi,I'm facing this problem : when using implicit connection to an Oracle database, the execution aborts with a "Connection not found" error. If I use an explicit connect in a method of the used object, all goes fine.This doesn't occur with programs & subprograms where I can use implicit connection without any problem.So, is an implicit connection compatible with OO Cobol?Regards,TahitiClic

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 25 August 2011]hi all,I am new to Microfocus Net Express 5.1 and have a problem I'm hoping you might be able to help me with:I am animating a cobol program that perform a lot of DISPLAY statements which go into the application output screen. the problem is I can not control this screen size or buffer capacity, so I end up missing the display lines that are not visible (about 20 I reckon).is there a way to make this window larger and scrollable?thanks in advanceJuan Antonio

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 04 May 2011]HiI realise that this is now the current forum for RM related issues/questions, but "read only" access to the old forum would still be useful.The old forum contains a number of solutions, fixes, and ideas that still have relevance to the RM community. Just removing access to the old forum seems a bit drastic!Any thoughts?Nigel

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 29 April 2011]I see that the old forums have been removed and it now redirect's you here. It's a shame really, there was still tons of useful information there that I and I'm sure everyone else used.Anyway to keep them up and have a link here to them or something?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 30 August 2011]Hi,I am trying to test a cobol program in netexpress 5.1 IDE ; when I encounter a cobol READ statement while animating I get the following error.HEAP[runw.exe]:Heap block at 00146D38 modified at 00147140 past requested size of 400HEAP[runw.exe]:Invalid Address specified to RtlFreeHeap( 00140000, 00146D40 )The file has the below description SELECT OPTIONAL DALLOG ASSIGN TO "DALLOG" ORGANIZATION INDEXED ACCESS DYNAMIC FILE STATUS IS DALLOG-STATUS DALLOG-DVS-STATUS RECORD KEY IS DALLOG-KEY. FD DALLOG IS EXTERNAL RECORD VARYING FROM 5 TO 32763 CHARACTERS DEPENDING ON DALLOG-RECORD-LENGTH RECORDING MODE V. 01 DALLOG-RECORD. 05 DALLOG-KEY PIC X(005). 05 FILLER PIC X. 05 DALLOG-CONTENTS PIC X(32757).What could be

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 August 2011]Old Cobol objects RM/COBOL Runtime – Version 7.00.03 for 32bit Windows (9x/Me/NT/TS/2K). This is old Cobol and the user would like to move to 64bit Windows. Can a run-time be purchased? Would the source code have to be recompiled? (I am afraid that over the past 20 years some source/object issues would occur). Can the existing objects run in a 64bit environment? Any help would be appreciated. Michael

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 29 August 2011]HiWe have a web site created using ASP MVC3 from where we call our Acucobol applications using Interop.AcuGTObjects. This works well on 32-bit systems.We have now installed Visual Studio 2010, ASP MVC3 and Acucobol on a new machine, using Windows 7 64bit. When starting out, we get: Server Error in '/SveaWeb_deploy' Application.Could not load file or assembly 'Interop.AcuGTObjects' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. Do we have a clash here between 32 and 64 bit?Or have we not registered everything correctly?Anyone doing something similar?Robert

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 16 August 2011]Hi...I´m a user of ACUCOBOL and need a help!Is possible identify in Windows 2003, what are the programs are in executing in a time?tks and sorry because my english is dont very good!

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 August 2011]Any suggestions for a platform-independent method for: - Validating an XML file (with XSD) - Transforming an XML file (using XSL/XSLT)I am working with AIX and Windows.Is there support in the Micro Focus toolset for either of these functions?Thanks

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 05 May 2011]Has anyone tried to use the new ext 9.0.0 with a .Net dll. i can get it to work if i run the cobol program using the absolute location of the WRUN32.EXE. yes i have put the .dll in the same folder as the wrun32.exeso c:\\acucbl900\\wrun32.exe -c c:\\etc\\cblconfi myprogram.acu will work and the .net dll gets loaded and run when the create command is executed.however, same program, same dll, same runtime will NOT work if i run it as follows.\\\\mypcname\\c$\\acucbl900\\wrun32.exe -c c:\\etc\\cblconfi myprogram.acu the cobol program opens up fine but when i execute the create command for the .net dll i get an error'There was a problem with one of the .NET support libraries.''.NET assemblies cannot be loaded.''COBOL error at .....'

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 19 August 2011]HelloI am new to COBOL but I know Visual StudioI would like to create TREEVIEW via Visual Studio but I can not define arrays of nodes.I'm trying to do as followsinvoke treeview1::nodes::ADD ("ROOT NODE"). (It's Works)invoke treeview1::nodes[0]::Nodes::ADD ("CHILD NODE"). (does not work)If anyone can help me,Thanks

Introduction Speaking to a NetExpress user recently I sensed some fear at the idea of moving to Visual COBOL – a new IDE and a new language (.NET COBOL or JVM COBOL). Understandably daunting. So I thought it might be worthwhile to give an overview of this “new language” and demonstrate that it is a force for good – not to be feared. So let’s take a look at .NET COBOL and JVM COBOL (or Managed COBOL**) and see how they fit in with procedural COBOL and the new frameworks. (We won’t discuss actual syntax in this document.) Background - Visual COBOL Getting Started in Visual COBOL Managed Code Managed COBOL running on .NET Managed COBOL running on JVM Managed COBOL Programming Language Background – Visual COBOL There are 2 Visual COBOL products: Visual COBOL for Visual Studio and Visual COBOL for Eclipse With these IDEs come .NET COBOL & JVM COBOL* respectively, or Managed COBOL as we'd prefer to collectively call them. * * Managed COBOL is COBOL with extensions to support the .N

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 16 August 2011]Is there an Net Express - Interface Mapping Toolkit ebook dedicated to the programming or creatation, modification and deployment of web services and COM for the .net programmer?TIA! Jerry

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 10 August 2011]Hi,A client has a question relating to a VB to COBOL conversion, could I ask for assistance or advise on why the 105 memeory allocation error occurs:SI2531170Original text:Hi I am trying to convert a vb program to cobol and have hit a snag that I do not know how to do it, can you help please. I have attached a test app, I am having trouble converting the following:Call SetFpcCallback(Addressof FprCallback)Private Sub SetFprCallback(ByVal lpFunc As Long) Fpr1.FprCallback = lpfuncEnd SubI think it is trying to pass the memory address of FprCallback to the sub program Fpr1.In my Cobol program (Bacfpr.cbl) the relevant section is SET-CALLBACK, when I push the Push Button I get an error 105 Memory allocation error. SET-CALLBACK section. invoke Fpr "FprCallback" using DataBlock-pointer move FprCallback to FprCallback * perform AUTO-SNAP . CAPTURE-

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 10 August 2011]SI 2529698The client is looking for a code sample to pass a String Array from Java to COBOL, there is this demo available but it does not show how to pass strings (everything else it seems), see:C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus\\Net Express 5.1\\Examples\\Net Express IDE\\JAVADEMO\\COBOL\\ARRAYSI found a previous topic which sounds a bit similar but not to do with arrays: community.microfocus.com/.../266_Visual_Cobol_Sample_With_JavaCould I ask if anyone has a sample available that they could provide or point me to? I cannot find anything specific that would help.Kind regardsKim

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 August 2011]Hello,I am currently researching on how to create Oracle Tables in Net Express.I have some questions and I'm hoping you guys can help me.> Do I need to convert the DB2 DDLs to Oracle DDLs before I can create the tables?> How do I create the Oracle tables in Net Express?Thanks in advance! :)

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 15 August 2011]Hi All,Im trying to call Outlook from with in Visual Cobol using the following code:- method-id. "button1_Click" final private. 01 ls-call string. procedure division using by value sender as object e as type "System.EventArgs". set ls-call to '"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office11\\Outlook.exe" /c ipm.note' invoke type "System.Diagnostics.Process"::"Start"(ls-call) end method "button1_Click".However its returning an error "the system cannot find the file specified"I can run this from the command prompt and it works ok, any ideas pls.Kind regardsNeil.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 August 2011]Hi All,I am obliviously developing a Web App in COBOL but I cant find any information on how to layout the page/controls better when using an "ASPX" form.Does any one have any info on this?Does MF have any info on this or sample sites that will show be how to "put a button" here or a "text box" there and it doesnt muck up the rest of the page.I did think about using "Frames" but couldnt find it any where in the IDE.Many thanksNeil.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 August 2011]Is there a good programmer guide online for SEE 6.0 / Enterprise Server?Specifically what is available to use and how to use it using .net and cobol/cobol.net for COM and Web Services?I think it should be way easier for developers to find programming references and examples for there specific installations. Seems like all the programmer information on the MF cobol site is geared towards Visual Cobol 2010 R1 to R4.Any good references for COM and Web Services as it relates to SEE 6.0 and Enterprise Server would be greatly appreciated!!! Jerry

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 09 August 2011]Ok, first off I'm not 100% sure of the Micro Focus enviroment and have not code much COBOL and that as 14 years ago...I believe we have a MF cobol environment converted to run on SQL server. We seem to have Net Express 6.0 on several Cobol developers machines. I need to interact with the cobol code (native cobol) with c# code (assemblies). It apprears that the best way to do this by creating cobol.net proxy classes to interact with the native cobol procedures. I would assume that with Net Express 6.0 and or Visual Studio (2008/2010) we can create these proxy classes in cobol.net. However, I don't know much about the whole mirco-focus environment. From my reading on the proxy classes it would make sense to compile the cobol.net proxy to an assembly. Than I would have to add a reference to this proxy class in my c# client application.1] If you could provide feedback on the above assumptions and questions that would b g

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 10 August 2011]If i download the R3 or R4 can these be installed to work with both VS2008 and VS2010? Or, will this only work on VS2008?Will the R3 or R4 installation install the MicroFocus.COBOL.RunTime.dll and other required .dlls?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 09 August 2011]Can someone tell me if R3 and 2010 are the same when referring to the documentation?I'm reading on some of the Library for Visual Cobol 2010 and is this R3 or what?What is R4? Is R4 Visual Cobol 2011?Thanks in advance!

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 14 July 2011]I´m a user of NetExpress since 2.0. We bought Visual Cobol 4 and missed NE/Datatools.When will Microfocus provide this ?Thanks.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 09 August 2011]Hi All,Just starting to use Visual Cobol to develop a web application and was wondering if any one knows of any websites that will show me how to code the following sort of things:- (understand it will be in VB or C#)1) get browser type2) get external ip address 3) etc etcI need to do this thru the COBOL code not any HTML and pick it up on the FORM_LOAD as I need to write the results back to my database that I control from within the source program.Thanks for any help.Neil.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 03 August 2011]Every few weeks our system hangs and does not allow users to login to CICS. The console is filled with messages:JES000011E Batch spool file error; status startThese messages appear for no apparent reason as they often occur in the middle of the night when no users are using the system. In our environment, once the user enters his userid/password, control is passed to a local signon program that reads a VSAM file looking for a user record; if the record is found, it allows signon to complete. If not found, it returns "User is not set up for this CICS". When we start receiving the bathc spool error messages, the read of the VSAM file apparently fails as it appears that none of our users are in the VSAM file. Once I bounce the region, everyone can sign in again. Would someone give me a clue as to how to determine the cause of this error? And what exactly is a batch spool file error anyway? The MF doc isn't