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Are the Refactoring features demonstrated only in Visual studio IDE or they are also available in eclipse IDE?#VisualCOBOLUniverse2020

What is the difference between the tools and features of the Analyzer product and those available in the COBOL and Mainframe development tools?#COBOLAnalyzerUniverse2020

Do I need the Micro Focus Analyzer product installed to use the refactoring tools?#COBOLAnalyzerUniverse2020

In the session, there was talk of refactoring to create APIs or RESTful webservices from existing COBOL applications. Can you explain what technology options are available to deploy COBOL code as an API?#VisualCOBOLUniverse2020

Mobile and web were both mentioned during the keynote, have you automated Micro Focus Cobol platforms?#COBOLUniverse2020

Hi, I am trying to compile my JVM Project.Using the include-command does not work, the copy will not be found:EXEC SQL       INCLUDE HVEND-EXEC....-> cobol] COBCH0012S Operand HV-T-BEZUG is not declared HV-T-BEZUG ist declared in the copy HV.Using the copy HV by the command 'copy HV' there are no problems.My directives :hide-message"1158" REMOVE(NAME) REMOVE(USER) nospzero DATAMAP hostnum-compare"2"hostnum-move nobound nomfcomment assign"external" defaultbyte"00"notrunc setting adv NOKEYCHECK filetype"11" sequential"record" HOST-NUMCOMPARESIGN-FIXUP TRUNCCOPY"16" IDXFORMAT"8" CONSTANT COBCONNECT "TRUE" CONSTANTCONREUSE "TRUE" CONSTANT COBLOG "FALSE" REMOVE(BYTE) REMOVE(DECLARE)REMOVE(PARAMS) COPYEXT",cbl,cpy,mf,CPY,CBL" ILEXPONENTIATION "FLOAT"CHECKDIV "ENTCOBOL" NOBOUNDOPTSQL Pre Dirs:SQL(DBMAN=JDBC) S

Hi.  XDBC manual says you can make an XFD file for a relative cobol file.  And you can.  Once you have, how do you access a specific record?  When I google how to use SQL to select a specific record, I get information on LIMIT/OFFSET keywords (not in the manual) and ROW_NUMBER function for window processing (not in the manual. So, can I use XDBC to access a specific record#, or do I have to change my record layout(s) to include a flag field which can be searched with the "WHERE" clause?#XFD#Relative#XDBC#SQL

Hi,when I am reading  empty file, it gives error status as 10...But, i just wanted to know , How to check if file is empty in microFocus cobol without reading the file??I need to display the message to user  as "No record in  CM file" in case   file is empty without reading.See my logicopen  input CM-FILERead CM-FILE-REC        

Hi,I have working storage variable WS-WEB-LINK pic X(150). And after i read my SYSFILE , I am moving the values from SYS-WEB-LINK variable  to  WS-WEB-LINK  variable.  Just note SYS-WEB-LINK also declared pic X(150) in copy book,.Now, i wanted to ignore all spaces in WS-WEB-LINK  and move the ONLY values to WS-FINAL-LINK.(without spaces) using STRING statement. I did that. that is okay.  WS-FINAL-LINK we will not know how variable size either 60 or 70 or 90 size.,.. But, maximum i declared as 150 bytes . that is okay,My question is here,  I just wanted to know how do i declare the size to WS-FINAL-LINK based on Inspect counter value at the run time using Acu GT cobol software.That is reason i am saying Acu GT cobol do not give build the logic now..Any clue please? This is urgent request from my side....thank you in advance.,    

I noticed that two project setting have double entries: After fiddling around a bit I have a feeling they both seem to serve the same purpose.► Why do they exist twice? What's the exact difference? PS: From what I also noticed:The entries on the COBOL Link page override the entries on Application page.Clearing the entries on the COBOL Link page copies the Application page entries over to the COBOL Link entries.I would have expected a drop-down for Entry Point, providing me with a list of all available entry points in the project.#application#Projectsettings#COBOLLink

Hi,Getting this error whiler creating COBOL project in Wondows 10:Errors occurred during the build.Errors running builder 'Micro Focus Project Builder' on project 'testproj'.Truncated class fileThanks.Gagan 

Has anyone experienced this error and know how to correct the problem?  It was working fine yesterday before the update occured.  I uninstalled/reinstalled Visual COBOL Personal Edition to no avail.The "MicroFocus.Cobol.BuildTasks.Cobol" 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.

I am trying to use RECOVER1 on my files, and any file I try, I am getting an 90,07 error.I am using version 12.12 of RECOVER1. Anyone know what would cause this issue?

We are having a difficult time printing to the acutoweb client.  We use the acubench report writer for all our reports. We have printed using acuthin, C$copy and acubenchprint.dll.  We really do not want to rewrite all our reports using C$PDF. We can use the acutoweb desktop but are having difficulty finding any information on how to print to the client.#HowTo-BestPractice

I need to display a bitmap over a label or to put it this way: a label should never overlap a bitmap.But even if the bitmap is defined in the screen section behind the label or is displayed seperately after the label the label overlaps the bitmap.Is there a solution for my problem ?  

At this time, I don't need the left margin, so it's currently loss of workspace to me.So far, I couldn't find an option yet to hide it.Can the left margin be hidden in Micro Focus option settings?

Hello All,I have converted my Netexpress5.x Projects to Visual Cobol, but continue in the Moment with Dialog System Screens, i have no experience with dotnet Screens/Windows!Who want to share his experience?Where is it possible to buy any Standard moduls to implement in new programs, toolbar, taskbarI don't want to do many Errors and reject all developments.Thanks for your help.The used database is MSSQL or other SQL-Database, here i can take the part from netexpress! And don't use mf isam files at this time!

We're using Acu Extend 9.1.1 (or 9.1.2.1) on Windows, with our ISV license codes for development system and runtime.  On most of our computers, the crun32 runtime works, as does the wrun32 runtime.However, on one workstation, wrun32 works fine, but crun32 throws an error that it is not licensed.  When we do a crun32 -v, the response indicates it is licensed for 4 users (which is correct), but with no serial number.  On other computers, we do get the serial number. Is there a different license for the console runtime (crun32) or should the regular runtime license work for crun32 as for wrun32?  If the latter is the case, what would lead to wrun32 working but crun32 not working?(We've searched the computer to make sure there aren't other copies of either installed elsewhere, tried different license codes, etc).ThanksTony

With the current version of Visual COBOL it's impossible to inspect multidimentional table data items in a debugging session: Visual COBOL should be able to inspect multidimensional table data items like in this sketch: 

  Utilia S.p.A. un caso di eccellenza tutto italiano! A 60 anni dall’introduzione del COBOL, Utilia S.p.A racconta come fare Digital Transformation per il propiro Successo, al servizio del mondo Energy e Utilities. Speaker: Stefano Nicoloso - Responsabile Sviluppo Software e Infrastrutture Applicative, #Webinars#COBOL#SoftwareeInfrastruttureApplicative

GOOD MORNING EVERYONEI have a problem and have not been able to fix it. Working with Windows 10, single user environmentMicrosoft Visual  Studio 19Micro Focus COBOL Version 5.0Working Directory is called G2, on drive CAll source, executable, data, copy members are in that directory. We are able to compile properly, and execute the programs individually ; however, if program A, calls program B, then the error occurs . We installed, repaired, deleted an reinstalled the compiler but still get the same error. Investigating via the internet, we found some comments about the %path% not being set properly, and the recommended solution is to use REGEDIT and eliminate the quotes "" from the %path%. We reviewed the register and there are not quotes in the path.  Could someone help? Thanks in advance

The "Show All Files" button in Visual Studio Solution Explorer doesn't work with COBOL projects: Without this functionality, it's hard(er) to add existing files to the current project.

I am trying to create a program that links ACUCOBOL Runtime 10.3.0 with Microsoft SQL Server 2019 that allows user to:1. Create a SQL table from COBOL2. Add records to the table from COBOL3. Update records in table from COBOL4. Delete records in table from COBOL Currently I am having troubles with the SQL part. I have tried the sample code here:https://supportline.microfocus.com/documentation/books/sx40/spcesc.htm Compiler shows that I am missing the EMPREC file. Where do I find this file?If I manage to create a table, where is this table stored?

Hi,We are doing a POC in our organization to prove a Cobol program can call a restful API(built in .Net C#). We generated the input and output JSON schema files from the JSON data using a free online tool(JSCON schema draft 6) and used in Visual studio 2012 to generate the clients. Since the generated client had the service address blank(it will be auto populated if we generate the client from wsdl for SOAP services), we manually types in the URL to be called. However, we are getting error "Service name not found in IDT" when we executed the client program. I am not sure if we are doing something wrong in this process. Can someone help us ? Please notes that we use enterprise server version 3(enterprise developer ver 3 in machine).

Creating a COBOL console application solution I don't seem to be able to run the compiled EXE file by double-clicking it.I get a system error message telling me that "cblrtsm.dll" is missing: I can debug the file without flaw from within the IDE.Am I missing something? How can I start the EXE file from the Windows shell?I read through the documentation at Building COBOL Applications and Running Applications (Native COBOL), but the information there couldn't shed any light on my problem. The only issue I found in the forums so far didn't yield a result, too.