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Did you know that Visual COBOL supports a number of advanced code refactoring options? Please see the product documentation section on refactoring here.#HowTo-BestPractice#VisualStudio#refactoring#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#VisualCOBOL#Eclipse#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Did you know that the latest version of the Acu/Extend product is 10.4? In case you missed it, a recorded webinar is available, which provides an overview of the newest application modernization tools available in this version. #AcuCobol#programming#extend#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocss/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Is it possible to change which browser program you use i AcuCobol. Right now when we set up use of browser i AcuBench, it will always use Internet Explore.It is not good while the use of Internet Explore often gives an error.And also because Internet Explore will be deleted later this year.

I am getting both a "program not found" and file error 35 when I try to use the @server code.  My server name is Decision1 and my config file, in part, is as follows: ##Search path for programs.CODE_PREFIX @decision1:G:\\apps\\UPW2018 G:\\APPS\\DB2018##Errors controlERRORS_OK ON##Search path for data files.FILE_PREFIX @decision1:G:\\apps\\UPW2018ICON G:\\apps\\UPW2018\\DSI.ICO# My run time config file uses the following and works just fine.  Why is my @server not working?  Is my syntax wrong?  thanks #Search path for programs.CODE_PREFIX G:\\apps\\UPW2018 G:\\APPS\\DB2018

I have 5+ year of experience in AcuCOBOL. Worked in Insurance , Supply Chain domain. and having experience in SQL also. Please help me to find a better opportunity to work.#COBOL#AcuCobol#acubench

I have autogenerated Webservice client program using how to article in Micro focus documentation link Programming > COBOL Programming > Interface Mapping Toolkit (IMTK) > How to> Generate Clients > To generate a RESTful COBOL console client from JSON It is working fine for HTTP based webservices. However, same approach does not work for HTTPS based webservice. Its throwing HTTP status code 8 (Communication error)  Error: HTTP Status Code 00008Error: Communications component error Our Micro focus environment does not have HTTPS listener available which could be the reason for above error. I went through the Micro focus documentation and found below article which could explain the missing Communications component error message www.microfocus.com/.../GUID-0C6B4853-13B1-4759-8041-80D9509D6058.html Did anyone faced similar issue? What was done to fix it?  #VisualCOBOL#listener#restfulwebservice#https

Hi, I have a number declared : 77 MY-NUMBER PIC S9(5)V99    and for printing it : MY-NUMBER-PRINT PIC -ZZZ.ZZZ.ZZ9,99 When I print it the minus sign appears in the first left space  es.     -       123,45. How I can position the minus sign near the 1 ?

Hi.  The manual for Acucobol Extend, int eh Debugger and Utilities section for Indexed file record editor (alfred) just says this: You can download detailed information on using alfred in PDF format from the Support > Examples and Utilities > ACUCOBOL-GT® Technical Articles and Tips page on the Micro Focus Web site (www.microfocus.com). That is referring to the old website before it was revamped.  Anyone know where the alfred guide is now?

I am trying to get another trial version of Visual Cobol PE and when filling out the request receive an error of Error: Server was unable to process request. ---> The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. ---> The logon attempt failed

I am trying to use a pipe filename to communicate with the sqlcmd command so i can continuously feed it sql commands. So my filename looks like this:  | cmd /k sqlcmd -o output-filename I can sucessfully communicate back and forth with sqlcmd so that works fine, My problem is when i open the file it creates a console window. Is there anyway i can prevent the console window from popping up? Thanks in advance for any help. I am compiling to INT/GNT using Visual Studio (Version 7)#SQL#pipe#VisualCOBOL#Filehandling

Has anyone been able to get the cursor to blink in an entry field?#cursor#blink

I am trying to create a function that uses a variable parameter list.  So i can invoke the function like; function cat(var1, var2) or function cat(var1, var2, var3) or function cat(var1, var2, var3, var4) etc Everything I try causes a crash or fails to work. My latest attempt is trying to implement the "REPEATED" option of the USING clause which doesn't crash but it also doesn't work; Function; $set preservecase case repository(update ON) ID DIVISION. FUNCTION-ID. CAT. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 WS-BUFFER PIC X(1024) VALUE SPACES. 01 WS-FUNC PIC 9(2) COMP VALUE 16. 01 WS-RESULT PIC 9(2) COMP. 01 WS-PARMS PIC 99 COMP. 01 WS-SIZE PIC 9(5). 01 P PIC 9(3). 01 R PIC XXX COMP-X. LINKAGE SECTION. 01 STR PIC X(1024) OCCURS 10. 01 RESULT PIC X(1024). PROCEDURE DIVISION USING STR REPEATED

Is it possible to extract the content from a web page that gets displayed in the browser control. I want to open a web page using a URL and its parameters, then get the data being displayed in a table (see screen shot below)

Someone is using initialize (which works fine in unmanaged code) to initialize linkage. He says the pic x's are correctly set to spaces, but numerics are not set to zero.  Is there more involved? Thanks.#managed

What is the latest availability date for the PE of Visual COBOL to integrate with Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition?

I am trying to run an AcuCobol software application through Remote Desktop Services on a Windows Server 2019. The Remote Desktop Services collection has been successfully deployed. I added the wrun32.exe program to the list of allowable programs using the full network path and then published it. I see it on the Remote Desktop Website. I downloaded the .rdp icon on the remote machine through the Remote Desktop Website. I then change properties of that .rdp icon through Notepad on the local user machine to include the necessary parameters that the software app requires to run (C:\\Acucorp\\AcuGT\\bin\\wrun32.exe -C C:\\ETC\\GUICONFIG User_Login 001 Main_Menu). This works fine on the local server. I just can't get it to run on the remote machine which accesses this server thru RDS.  I get the error as follows: Windows cannot start the RemoteApp program.  The following RemoteApp program is not in the list of authorized programs:  wrun32.exe.  

Hi. Since 1994 I have designed and implemented an application in HPUX under MICROFOCUS SERVER EXPRES. Now I have to migrate that application to LINUX, but my surprise is that the architecture of that application, inspired by parent child processes, does not allow this migration due to the use of the fork() function. error 96. It doesn't help me to implement multithreading or calls to exec() functions because that means rendering the entire application. Any ideas? The application covers a critical service of a financial entity.

What happens to the web-browser control in ACUCOBOL-GT, now that Microsoft is about to stop the support for Internet Explorer? Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000005300#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTips/SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

So.  Was using rment, it was working.  Tweaked the command slightly (the request string part of httppost) and now, instead of status zero, I am getting status 1.  The original response that comes back is still correct.  When I check the error description, using NetGetError, it gives back "no error, don't panic!".   So does this mean both zero and 1 status mean a successful request/response?  Can't find any list of errors in sample/rmnet or sample/def or in the manual. Confused in Canada...

I am getting error com.microfocus.cobol.program.COBOLProgramCallException: 181     Invalid parameter error when calling one COBOL program from another.  Both are compiled with -J (CobJVM) mode. The arguments on the call and the procedure division using are exactly the same, call statement and data definitions are below.   Question, how can I find out which of the 22 parameters it doesn't like ?            call 'ts905g' using  bad-xptn-tbl                                 input-ptr                                 output-len                                 output-ptr                            

why is it not possible to integrate a newer ocx-file? i will join a zip-file with cfile.ocx and ctxfile.ocx. i was able to integrate ctfile.ocx that is a older development, but not ctxfile.ocx The first message is: OLE returned error: H'800401F3'Reason: ungültige Klassenzeichenfolge (in german) unavalaible class string? The second error by integrating:Failed to create object.OLE2 return code 20 This is on all Windows OS (Win7 32 bit, Win10 64bit, also Win11 64 bit)community.microfocus.com/.../ctfile.rar Thanks for help.

Hi, I'm using Visual Cobol for Eclipse on Redhat. I know I can compile Visual Cobol Projects on Eclipse, but how to compile them with Command Line? There's SQL Preprocessor , and CP Preprocessor used in my projects. One Compile Command that could compile the whole project is the best (even all projects) . If each program need a compile command , that would took a lot of work...  Thanks

Can i use reflection to connect to a Windows server in the same fashion i would use reflection to connect to a Linux server? Thanks in advance for any help.#Reflection#Linux#COBOLserver

Hi, I'm trying to migrate from Server Express to Visual Cobol, both on Redhat Linux. I noticed a Document that contains [Differences between Visual COBOL and Server Express] and it shows [COM Interop] is one of the points. [COM Interop] means [The tools to help create COM objects are not supplied with Visual COBOL], so I think if there's no [COM Objects] used in my Project, I don't need to change any source code. But I don't know what [COM Objects] is or how to use it. According to my research, seems [INVOKE] statement can used for [COM Objects], Is that means if no [INVOKE] in my source code, then no [COM Objects] used ? Thanks

Hi everyone.  This is more for your information than a question.   Since the manual says the KEYSTROKE table is maximum of 170 entries, and I was having some issues, I wondered if the table updated existing entries when a key was changed, or if it was just a log which the runtime searched to see the most recent entry.   I did some testing and table entries get updated so it's not a "log", it's a table. I built a little program to test input and exception keys.  I added a loop to set/reset the kr key back and forth between two values.  Did that 100 times for 200 entries into the table.  Set the kr one more time after the loop, and that's the value I got.  So the table updates entries for various keys, it's not a log where you read everything to find the most recent change.