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Thinking about developing and deploying your Visual COBOL application in a Docker environment? There are a number of useful videos available on YouTube that can help you do that. Installing Visual COBOL for Docker on WindowsInstalling Visual COBOL for Docker on LinuxDeveloping COBOL Applications for Docker in EclipseDeploying COBOL Applications for Docker in EclipseDebugging Deployed COBOL for Docker on WindowsDebugging Deployed COBOL for Docker on Linux#VisualCOBOL#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#docker#deploy#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#COBOLforDocker#Eclipse#HowTo-BestPractice#COBOL#VisualCOBOL#COBOLserver

I'm attempting to develop Cobol code to call an external sales tax calculation API (provided by Avalara/Avatax). HttpPost seems the most logical way to go as I will be sending & receiving responses. However, the basic format of the destination URL is getting the better of me. Simple test json url's, such as http://ip.jsonttest.com/ work fine and return responses. However when I need to send a complex URL with username/passwords & search parameters I'm getting nowhere. Are there any step by step tutorials on this subject? Any and all helpful comments are appreciated in advance!

Hi -  I have huge Sequential file. Containing Binary data. One of the record is causing 9847 File Status.  Problem is :- I cannot delete the record.  This is regular occurrence. Is there any way can I ignore this record and continue processing to next record ?#RMCOBOL

Hi .I can´t install visual cobol personal edition (vcvs2019_60.exe) for windows in my notebook. My windows is windows 10 home and i had install visual studio 2017. With this configuration I had no sucess. What arethe requirements necessary for install it.Tks and best regards. Sorry by my poor english.

I've installed Visual COBOL for VS 2019 but don't have a Start Menu item for VC and I do not see Visual COBOL under the Micro Focus for Visual COBOL. I have ADO.Net, Classic data, Date File, Enterprise Server, Open ESQL, Samples and 2 VC Command prompts, 32 & 64 bit. Have I installed this incorrectly ? Thank you!

Hello, Is there a way to embed a pdf document (Base64) into a XML file? Something like this. <cbc:EmbeddedDocumentBinaryObject filename="Factuur.pdf " mimeCode="application/pdf">JVBERi0xLjcNCiW1tbW1DQoxIDAgb2JqDQo8PC9UeXBlL0NhdGFsb2........ André Oostendorp

Did you know that the Acu/extend product comes with sample COBOL programs, data and other files to help you learn about the product? Beginning with version 10.0, these are located in: On Windows (replace the n.n with product subversion): C:\\Users\\Public\\Documents\\Micro Focus\\extend 10.n.n\\sample On Unix/Linux platforms: The sample folder is just below the selected product install location You can find more information at this page in the product documentation.#programming#extend#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocss/KnowledgeDocs#AcuCobol#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Did you know that Visual COBOL supports the Micro Focus Unit Testing Framework? This is an xUnit-style testing framework, available from the Visual COBOL command line prompt, or from the IDE. It supports native COBOL applications, and .NET COBOL applications. It includes much of the architecture you would expect of an xUnit framework: you can create, compile, run and debug unit tests from either the command line or your IDE. For more information see the product documentation here#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#VisualCOBOL#VisualStudio#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#UnitTests#xUnit#COBOL#HowTo-BestPractice#VisualCOBOL#Eclipse

Moving native applications with fixed format source files to managed code Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006541#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Launching the mentioned tool, but also other ACUCOBOL-GT exe's, the procedure stops with a missing entry point error. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006528#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

On Windows using the directive NOCHECKDIV, a DIVIDE BY ZERO does not fail. <br> <br>On Linux compiling with NOCHECKDIV, however, the program aborts with "162 Arithmetic overflow or Arithmetic underflow". How is it possible to continue without the abort? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006493#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

ACUCOBOL-GT Trace Files For Troubleshooting Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000005044#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Installing Safenet Licensing on SUSE Linux requires 32 bit C Runtime Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006368#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

When using AcuToWeb, require.js times out and the program won't load Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006435#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Is there any way of getting the tray names from the printer properties so they can be displayed as the driver states not what is in the general table provided in the winprint.def library User does not know what to select when running via AcuGT runtime compared to other applications as tray selection is different

Hi , I'm using Visual Cobol for Eclipse on Redhat, trying to migrate from Server Express to Visual Cobol, so I have to compare the Compile Result between them. and find out all reasons if difference exists. I set verbose = true, then the compile result outputted, On Server Express, here's the compile results for [list] * Accepted - nolist* Accepted - list("XXX1.lst") but on Visual Cobol, [cobol] * Accepted - NOLIST [cobol] * Accepted - LISTPATH"Listing" 1  The [NOLIST] is the same , but why [list("XXX1.lst")] outputted on Server Express ?     How to set compile option that makes Visual Cobol output it too ? 2  Visual Cobol outputted [LISTPATH] and Server Express did not. It is effect anything?     If [LIST PATH] is only a message for reminding something, then I don't have to change it. Thanks

Is there any build in command for AES encryption and decryption in Micro focus COBOL? I have a requirement where i am supposed to AES encrypt/decrypt one column in the file.  #VisualCOBOL#MicroFocus

It's possible to change Content-type in EXEC HTML?I'm having problem with Cloudflare because the MIME types. Example:test.cbl: $set preprocess(htmlpp) endp identification division. program-id. test. working-storage section. 77 ws-color pic x(10). 77 ws-font pic x(10). 77 ws-fontsize pic x(10). procedure division. move "#000000" to ws-color move "Verdana" to ws-font move "10px" to ws-fontsize exec html copy "style.css". end-exec stop run. style.css: .style1 { font-family: :ws-font; font-size: :ws-fontsize; color: :ws-color; } When i run:cobrun testContent-type: text/html .style1 { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; color: #000000;} Is there a way to change "Content-type: text/html" to "Content-type: text/css"? Thanks for help.#ServerExpress#exechtml#content-type#html#COBOL

1. I am facing 1054 return code on below cursor while opening the cursor on MySql8 through Visual COBOL 6. 2. Below cursor is working fine on Mysql5 through server express 3. Same cursor is running fine in stored proc created on mySql8 4. Project requires row level lock while fetching the cursor. 5. Can you please suggest how to make running this cursor on MySql8 through Visual COBOL6.0 with lock on row. 6.If we comment "for update" lock on Visual COBOL 6, it works fine but it is not satisfying project requirement. Cursore : exec sql   declare my_cursor cursor for select  date_format (cstrc_date, '%Y%m%d), cstrc_number from cstrctrl where owing_location=:ws-branch order by cstrc_date,cstrc_number for update

Is there any way to call the windows OpenFileDialog() from un-managed Visual Cobol under windows? Thanks in advance for any help.#VisualCOBOL

Customer reported error "Unhandled Exception: System.AccessViolationException..." when using the OpenESQL Assistant in Visual COBOL for Eclipse 6.0. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006084#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Microsoft released two new Operating Systems in late 2021. Are they supported by the ACUCOBOL-GT extend® suite? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006296#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Can a Column of a Grid be moved, or hidden? <br>Can a Row be resized? <br>Find these and new features in release 10.4.0 and upcoming 10.5.0. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006297#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

What is the cause for the transaction error 9E-12? What can be done to fix it? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006299 #SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

How to call Native COBOL from Native JAVA project, passing data such as string. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000005091#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs