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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: 

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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.

Is there a library routine to get the User-ID or name from a Print file that a User has Created?As the new normal is working from Home users want to just view there own print files which are in a spoollib folder.I have looked @ I$IO and C$Fileinfo to no avail unless I missed something. 

RM/COBOL v10.01 on Windows 7 and 10. Users are receiving the following error in LCS when attempting to create a letter.I've checked the documentation.  Although I found that the run-time error 91 is a Server Error, it doesn't tell me much else.Has anyone else had this issue? Thanks,Linda

I noticed that negative numbers seem to be sort of encoded by Visual COBOL when written to line sequential files. PIC S99 VALUE -2, for instance, is stored in a line sequential file as "0r": Is this by intention? I couldn't find any documentation describing how negative numbers are stored in line sequential files. Until now, I would have believed they were stored like any other literal value (e.g. as "-02").Just in case, please find a sample project attached, depicting the issue.Your help is appreciated.

I noticed a setting in the COBOL project settings that may clash with other projects in a Visual Studio solution when compiling for x64 processors: Apparently, the Visual Studio 2019 MSBuild platform target (1) is ignored while at the same time a proprietary Platform Target property (2) has been added in project settings.From what I can see so far ...the proprietary setting is pointless as it is ignored by the compiler(i.e. no compiler settings are changed when this value is changed (see Build Settings text field at the bottom of the COBOL settings page))no MSBuild platform target is available for x64 in the solution (1)The compiler appears to compile to the MSBuild platform target (3), ignoring the proprietary setting (2)As a beginner to COBOL (particularly to Visual COBOL) I'm anything but sure and I'm not able to set-up a sample solution at this time; yet, adding a 64 bit .NET project to this solution and adding dependencies to the COBOL project should result in failure

Hi Chris,allow me to ask for 2 questions:1. is it possible to use T-SQL commands between exec SQL and end-exec?    When yes, how to make the difference between SQL code and T-SQL code2. How must we convert the Netexpress *.RC filesI see as error Directive /R invalid or not allwed here for the *.rc filesand illegal command line (COBOL)Thanks for your great help, allowing us to advancing in visual Cobol!

During my debug session I want to follow what's written to an OUTPUT file in Visual Studio.To do this, I step into my code, shortly after the OPEN OUTPUT statement, and try to open the file in Visual Studio.But Visual Studio refuses to open the file. It reports that the file is "in use by another process". Same does every other application being able to open a file with read-only access.I don't seem to be able to give correct parameters to the OPEN OUTPUT statement. I tried "OPEN OUTPUT SHARING WITH READ ONLY". However, whenever the file is created, it it's never created with FileShare.Read access (see screen recording attached to this message).What am I doing wrong?Your help is appreciated.

Problem A simple CONNECT that works fine on Oracle 11g fails with ORA-12560 on Oracle 12c and higher. It appears the trailing spaces on user id and password are no longer trimmed causing the connect to fail, and the result is the same with PICX=CHARF or PICX=VARCHAR2. Solution As of Oracle 12cR1, this is the new behavior of Pro*COBOL – trailing spaces in the password are not removed. In order to accommodate this change, Oracle introduces a new option "trim_password" to Pro*COBOL as of 12cR1. However, this option is never mentioned in the Oracle documentation until the Release Note in 12cR2:https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/12.2/pcbrn/index.html#PCBRN-GUID-D345B73E-3C0D-4B0E-8BA1-0D5EA8442AAF\\ By default on Windows, trim_password is set to NO, whereas it is set to YES on Unix/Linux. You may then do one of the followings: Add the trim_password option into COBSQL:P(COBSQL) END-C trim_password=yes ENDP​ Update the default value of trim_password to

in netexpress 5.x i have use any copy-files for my development as:wingdi.cpy, miniwin.cpy, wintypes.cpy, winuser.cpyYes, i can use this files for compiling in Visual Cobol, but are there newer copy-files or was this files missed to be included in VC5.xI used up7Thanks for your help!

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i have converted a netexpress 5.x Project to Visual Cobol to generate a lbr and dllafter converting, i become a error by compiling in dll -> "Can't open Input file oopss.libWhen i take away the oopss.lib in the field link with lib's, i become following error:unresolved external Symbol _oopsverifyobjectChris, what is to do?Thanks very much!

Any Documentation for color FAC assigned to a field somewhere?Currently if I Move this value of 10135429 to the FAC of a field it will change the color to RED.Wondering what other combinations are available.

Hello,Can someone help me and translate these C# instructions to Cobol? public Form1(){     InitializeComponent();     this.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;      this.DoubleBuffered = true;     this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.ResizeRedraw, true);}Rectangle Top1 {     get {          return new Rectangle(0, 0, this.ClientSize.Width, 10);     }}protected override void WndProc(ref Message messages){     base.WndProc(ref messages);     if (messages.Msg == 0x84) // WM_NCHITTEST     {          var cursor12 = this.PointToClient(Cursor.Position);          if (Top1.Contains(cursor12)) {               mess

Integrative Designansätze für die COBOL-Entwicklung : Application Workflow Modeller in der Praxis   An einem praktischen Beispiel wird das Konzept des Application Workflow Modellers (AWM) erläutert und die Entwicklungsumgebung von Visual COBOL / Enterprise Developer for Eclipse um zusätzliche Funktionalität erweitert.   #COBOL#applicationworkflowmodeller#AWM#Videos