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Trying to install Visual COBOL for Visual Studio Personal Edition (download file vcvs2019_60.exe).  Have Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 (64-bit) - Version 17.2.3 installed.  Installation pop-up screen appears and disappears.  Find this in the Event Viewer log: Faulting application name: vcvs2019_60.exe, version: 6.0.245.0, time stamp: 0x5aeb9383Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.19041.1682, time stamp: 0x9b46280aException code: 0xc0000374Fault offset: 0x000e6cf3Faulting process id: 0x60f8Faulting application start time: 0x01d877bc0e97f9e1Faulting application path: C:\\Users\\pengu\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\{E4834407-177B-40B3-8516-4B3688B84FBD}\\.cr\\vcvs2019_60.exeFaulting module path: C:\\Windows\\SYSTEM32\\ntdll.dllReport Id: b4a69d5a-df03-4193-9f73-1dba433c5020Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: Operating system is Windows 10 Pro, version 21H2, OS Build 19044.1706. Any ideas on why the installation is failing

I am working on a mainframe migration project to AWS using Micro focus. Our mainframe inventory is using AMATERSE as a service aid program that operates in problem state. You can use AMATERSE to pack a data set before transmitting a copy to another site, typically employing FTP as the transmission mechanism.  I searched microfocus documentation but seems AMATERSE is not supported directly in micro focus. Can anyone suggest me how do we achieve this functionality in micro focus?

I am working on a mainframe migration project to AWS using Micro focus. Our mainframe inventory is using DADBBI at multiple places. I searched micro focus documentation but seems DADBBI is not supported directly in micro focus. Can anyone suggest me how do we achieve DADBBI functionality in micro focus?

Beginning in Visual COBOL V7.0 support for dynamic length data-items has been added to the COBOL language. You can specify a data item as follows where the limit phrase is optional and defines the maximum size of the data-item. 01 my-field pic x dynamic length limit is 15. The length of this field will change dynamically depending on it's current contents. Example: move "larger value" to my-field display length of my-field move "small" to my-field display length of my-field move space to my-field display length of my-field move "12345678901234567" to my-field display length of my-field The lengths that will be displayed are: 125115 Please see the full documentation here#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#dynamiclength#limitis#VisualCOBOL#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#COBOL#HowTo-BestPractice#VisualCOBOL

Hello guys. I again. I'm trying to install MicroFocus Cobol Personal Edition for Visual Studio 2019 on my notebook with Win 10 64 bits but I'm having the following problem: The installer just opens and closes without doing anything. the interesting thing is that I created a virtual machine also with Win 10 64 bits and in this case it installs. I've looked for any and all references that exist about MicroFocus Cobol in my notebook to try to locate the problem, but nothing. I don't know what else to do to install. Any suggestion? Just don't tell me to reinstall Windows because I won't. Thanks in Advanced.

A call to C$SYSTEM fails when the command contains special characters like ‘&’: CALL "C$SYSTEM" USING "START C:\\TEMP\\MF&2019.XLSX" 225                 GIVING RETURN-VAL The following error is received. Only part of the command is recognized so the file cannot be found: C:\\TEMP\\MF Windows cannot find 'C:\\TEMP\\MF'. Make sure you've typed the name correctly, then try again. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007308#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

When using AcuXDBC and accessing the data through a DSN in Excel, it returns the error: DLLLOAD: xvision, the specified procedure could not be found PATH and GENESIS_HOME are set correctly and using odbcsql.bat directly on the command line works correctly. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007307#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

C$JAVA, using the op-codes CJAVA-DBCONNECT and CJAVA-DBQUERY, can be used to connect to and query a database. What driver string and connection string should be used? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007309#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

When running a newer version of AcuConnect on the server, the automatic update is triggered and installed on the client machine as expected. After this, when the .atc file is launched, the previous version of AcuThin is still used instead of the new installed version. This means that the automatic update is triggered again. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007310#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

When trying to install Visual COBOL or Enterprise Developer, the installation fails with the following error:"0x81f40001 - Micro Focus Visual COBOL for Eclipse has not been detected.""0x81f40001 - Micro Focus Visual COBOL for Visual Studio has not been detected.""0x81f40001 - Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Eclipse has not been detected.""0x81f40001 - Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Visual Studio has not been detected." Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007302#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

When a shared or mapped drive is set in the Working Directory in the Alias then there will be an error 267 in the AcuConnect logs, and the program will not run. This same set up works on Windows 7 but not now with Windows 10. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007312#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

When using the Eclipse Variables View (or Expressions view) to debug JVM COBOL, corruption (truncation) of data occurs if an elementary alphanumeric field contains a low-values character. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007268#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

COBOL copy files with extensions longer than 10 characters not found by COBOL compiler in 7.0 Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007226#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Within CA (Cobol Analyzer) Web it is possible to see the source code that has been loaded into a workspace. Is it possible restrict access to CA Web so that a user needs to be authenticated before using CA Web? It is possible to do this by enabling security with TomCat Web server and it will authenticate the user before allowing the user access to CA Web. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007405#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

How to use the 26 COBOL switches supported in a MF COBOL program by default and how to set these using COBSW environment variable and using the cobrun command. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007260 #SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

I Am trying to install the trial version of COBOL for windows. I installed the Eclipse for Java. Is that the correct version to be used for the COBOL for Windows? Thanks PS I am an old M/F COBOL programmer, not that good on the W/10 platform.

Under Visual Cobol Windows is it possible to map the numpad plus key to an adis function? For example: I want to map the numpad plus key to the tab function Thanks for any help#VisualCOBOL#keybcf#adis

I have to reinstall Visual Cobol for Eclipse in other computer because i have some trouble with the requerimients. So when i reinstall on my others PC i couldn´t insert my autorization code because i think that the code is asociate to my first installation.

Hi, I'm using Visual Cobol for Eclipse on Redhat, and trying to migrate from MF COBOL to Visual COBOL. I noticed [The static-linked run-time system is not available in Visual COBOL] from a document. But what is [static-link] ? and how can I find out whether [stacic-link] used in the current MF COBOL? Is where any keyword for using [static-link] ?

Hello,  Microssoft has released VS 2022 and we are looking to move to it from VS 2019.  I can not find any information on the Micro Focus pages about support for VS2022.  Does any one know when they plan to support it?   We are using Visual Cobol 6 currently. thanks

Visual COBOL allows you to deploy COBOL applications as SOAP or REST web services running in Enterprise Server. You can also generate COBOL client programs that are capable of calling these or 3rd party deployed web services. There are a couple of videos that describe this feature in detail: Using Visual COBOL for Eclipse to Create SOAP Web Services Using Visual COBOL for Eclipse to Create REST Web Services There are also a couple tutorials in the product documentation that will walk you through this process. Web Service Tutorials for Eclipse Web Service Tutorials for Visual Studio#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#VisualStudio#Videos#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#IMTK#HowTo-BestPractice#webservice#VisualCOBOL#Eclipse

Did you know that the Acu/extend product line includes Acu4GL, which allows you to leverage COBOL applications written with traditional file I-O statements (OPEN, READ, WRITE, etc.) to instead access data in Relational Databases? For more information, here is a link to an overview of the Acu4GL product.#programming#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocss/KnowledgeDocs#extend#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#AcuCobol

After editing the log4j2.xml file and following the steps indicated here, the AutoPass licensing logs are not being generated. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007151#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

How can tracing or diagnostics be enabled when issues occur with AutoPass licensing in AMC products? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006884#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

In certain situations, CA (Cobol Analyzer) will fail and produce an error message. As directed by the Micro Focus team, more information about the error may be required and this may require CA logging be enabled. Once the log file has been created it can be added to the case for further investigation by Micro Focus. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006984#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs