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Hi - I have situation .  I want to call RM/COBOL program B from RM/COBOL program A but donot want to wait for response.  Am I able to do using RM/COBOL?

I am getting a Stack Overflow exceptions in my Managed COBOL project. I read an article regarding this problem on the Micro Focus Community forum at the following link: /cobol/visualcobol/w/wikiid-120/30624/diagnose-and-fix-stack-overflow-exceptions-in-visual-cobol-managed-code-programsI experienced this problem a couple of weeks ago and manage to circumvent it by changing the code. But I am getting it again and it is happening in complex nested code that I cannot easily change.Based on the articles, it seems all that may be required is that I increase the stack size allocation. These are the following steps a tried as instructed by the article in order to increase stack space:1) Enable mixed-mode debugging in the project property2) Attempted to do a stack analysis using the “.load sos” extension but it did not recognize the “.load sos” command.I am using Micro Focus VISUAL COBOL 5.0  with patch update 10 and Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019 Version 16.6.2 S.SOS.PNG

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We were running COBOL Server 2.3 on Windows Server 2008We installed a new server running Windows Server 2019 and I installed COBOL Server 5.0I installed our original license file on the new server.We are running native code compiled as INTs.   Everything works fine when I run our software from the new server, but when I try to run it from a workstation I get a file status 9/181 on every file that the program tries to open.All data files and INTs are stored on the server.Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Hi.  There is a compiler option, -Wr, which turns off the normal warning we get if the redefiner is bigger than the data being redefined.  I remember seeing an option that could be turned on to do the opposite - warn if the redefiner is smaller, but I'm wondering if that was an rm/cobol option because I cannot find it in my 10.2.1 documentation.  Alternatively, a way to reorganize my copy library to use the standard warning would be a great option, but I don' t think I can:Issue: I have a table of standard data, sitting in a copy library, as a level 01 table with a sequence of 03 level fillers with value.  That's the table data.  Then I redefine it, using an occurs, to have access to the data.   The table of standard data is constantly growing.  But we often forget to increase the size of the constant for the occurs.  How do I avoid making the mistake of adding data without updating the size of the occurs?I cannot switch them around, because

I am doing the POC of Relativity on RM/COBOL Native File System. I am trying to use SQL using JDBC/ODBC connection [DBeaver/Microsoft Query]. File has 50M records. I noticed that GROUP BY, Distinct and COUNT on Primary Key is taking more than 10 mins.  BackEnd file is Not marked for Recovery. Query Plan Viewer doesnot show any suspicious. I maybe missing some setup. I am new to Relativity. Can you please advise /guide ?  

Dear Community,has someone an example of a simple invoice generated using xml and the cobol copybooks created using the cbl2xml utility ?I do not see any difficulty in creating an xml with<invoice> <supplier> <supplierName>My Name</supplierName> <supplierAddess>My Address</supplierAddress> </supplier> <client> <clientName>My Client Name</clientName> <clientAddess>My Address</clientAddress> </client> <invoiceDate>14/07/2020</invoiceDate> <invoiceId>123456</invoiceId> <invoiceLines> <invoiceLine> <item>Item 1</item> <price>100 €</price> </invoiceLine> <invoiceLine> <item>Item 2</item> <price>200 €</price> </invoiceLine> </invoiceLines> <invoice>A cpy definition could be the following, then converted with cbl2xml in order to create an xml file from a cobol progra

When one of my colleagues ran a native COBOL programme in VC5 and tried to access a sub-routine compiled in VC6 he didn't get the expected result. After he upgraded to VC6 it worked.But the Release Notes for VC6 only seems to mention problems when using VC4 or earlier together with VC6: "Upgrading from earlier Micro Focus products: This version of your product is dependent on a later version of the Microsoft C run-time system than earlier Micro Focus products. This means that COBOL executables (.exe) built with a version earlier than 4.0 might not be compatible with the current version of the run-time products."I can't see that there should be any problems with VC5.

I have a client running an application compiled using MF cobol for Unix V3.2, running on a bare metal install of SCO Openserver 6.0.0As the current hardware is now 8 years old, I have attempted to move the application to a Virtualbox on LinuxMint 19.3.All is well, except for one not so minor detail, the F10 and up and down arrow keys do not work, all the other F keys work, as well as the left and right arrow keys.I do not have the source code. The application does not appear to use a special termcap or terminfo, nor does it use an adisctrl file.Any suggestions?

I setup a CATALOG for ISAM file. Getting below error on trying to access table. Could not able to find info for CRDM Error = 1601. Can you please guide ?  Error: ODBC error-- SQLExecDirect(... returned: SQLState: S1000 Msg: [Micro Focus][Relativity for RM][Client][SimbaLNA][Micro Focus][Relativity RM Server][CRDM]The key was not found. NativeErr: -1601SQLState: S1000 Msg: [Micro Focus][Relativity for RM][SimbaLNA][Micro Focus][Relativity RM Server]Unable to open table: xxxxxxxxx. 08/10/2020 10:47:23

I want to get rid of all the old "SORTT" (Wang Conversion to AcuCobol) and use AcuCobol SORT.Here is the table I want to Sort.Do I have to have a SD File ETC.?or can I use something like this.  

I am in the process of upgrading from RM/Cobol with WOW-Extensions version 10.01 to 12.17. In the past we did a Administrative Installation for the runtime due to it being on a network drive. There is a bug though with the Administrative installation so we're now doing the standard installation and we'll be installing the runtime on up to 125 end-users pcs. My question is what, if any, changes are needed when going from the Administrative Installation to Standard Installation in regards to licensing. Specifically in regards to the license.vlt file.

Hello,I am using remote debug in Net Express 5.1 for some time. But today, when I want to start debug, I receive this message:Please what I have wrong here?

is it possible to Color text object in Dialog System?How?Thanks for a Little examples in ds-code and Cobol Syntax!cg

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I am trying to set the compile properties to generate a disk listing when I compile using CodeWatch.When I try to update the L option, I receive the following:What do I need to change to be able to select 'Yes'?  The Workspace default is blank; the Compiler default is 'No'; when I enter 'Yes' in Custom, I receive  Thank you for your assistance,Linda Praed

Hi, what stable versions of Informix ODBC do these products support:Net Express 5.0Net Express 5.1Visual Cobol 6.0Which version of Cobol supports version IBM Informix ODBC Driver, Version 4.10?Is there a table of MF products and recommended ODBC drivers versions?ThankPetr  

Background: Animating LARGE coredumps with Visual Cobol is very slow (compared to Server Express). The two new animator options FASTLOAD and FASTEXIT have brought some improvements, but it is still 5 times slower than before.Tests have shown, that canceling unnecessary subroutines (those not in the call stack) will solve the problem. animator got blazingly fast. But while I can easily find out, which subroutines are in the call stack (by using CBL_GET_PROGRAM_INFO) I don't know, how to get the loaded subroutines Only idea for know: cancel every module in COBPATH.

Is it possible to get a Linux runtime for the .int files compiled as above, either new or used.This is an Object Cobol Runtime not Net Express.

Symptoms The Micro Focus Consolidated Tracing Facility (CTF) can be very useful in capturing information about what's happening within the various components of the COBOL Runtime system, and your application. In some cases, you may find that the generated CTF trace file seems incomplete, and only shows the last portion of the expected information.    Diagnosis This can happen when the traced application is using multiple languages, processes or threads, which are each trying to write to the CTF trace file. (One example of this might be an application that uses both the Native and .NET COBOL Runtimes.)   Solution To avoid this issue, you can add the MULTIPROC emitter property to the specified CTF settings. For example: If requesting a binary CTF trace file:mftrace.emitter.binfile#multiproc=true   If requesting a text CTF trace file:mftrace.emitter.textfile#multiproc=true   Additional Information For more information about CTF Tracing, this Micro Focus Kn

Can I install VC6.0 on a machine with VC4.0 without a problem?

I just received my 30-trial download of Visual COBOL on 7/9/20 but have yet to download.  When does the 30-day clock start clicking?  Reason for asking is that I will vacation 7/18/20 - 8/2/20.  Is it wise to wait until I return to download the trial Visual COBOL?   Thank you.

Using Visual Studio 2019 CE and Visual COBOL PE.I have a series of programs which compile without errors. After a short break I fired up the project in VC and  was confronted with this error message:''The "MicroFocus.Cobol.BuildTasks.AssignSourceTargetPaths" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Community\\MSBuild\\Micro Focus\\Visual COBOL\\v1.0\\MicroFocus.COBOL.BuildTasks.dll. Method 'get_SourceFileExtension' in type 'MicroFocus.COBOL.BuildTasks.CreateCobolManifestResourceName' from assembly 'MicroFocus.COBOL.BuildTasks, Version=16.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0412c5e0b2aaa8f0' does not have an implementation. Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, that the assembly and all its dependencies are available, and that the task contains a public class that implements Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask.''The program in question compiles without err

Display LABEL "Test"             SIZE 40 CELLS centered                 LINE 03 COL 01Above logic I have written,  but i dont have clue how to close the label screen logically. ?   

Can anyone out there help me with Database Connectors, and the IDXFORMAT?I have a question about the $SET IDXFORMAT command that I place before my select statement.I know that "21" is for an Indexed file, and that "18" is for the SQL Indexed file, but are their any IDXFORMATS for sequential files or Sort files that won't be in the SQL db?Not all of our files will be stored in the Database (especially if we can't store sequential files), and I was also wondering if ALL of my files in my COBOL program need to have the $SET IDXFORMAT command so the database connector knows what kind of file it is??Can sequential files be written and processed by SQL?Also, does anyone know of some training videos or something I can read besides the MicroFocus documentation? Thanks!