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We have a number of tables in Microsoft SQL that are defined as uniqueidentifier. When accessing this column type the OpenESQL interface, using ODBC, returned this column type as a char(36).Modifying our native code to .NET and using ADO it appears that this column type is returned as a 16 character binary column type.My question is whether you are aware of this and whether there are other column data types that behave differently when using ADO as opposed to ODBC? Peter

Hello Team,Currently we have Enterprise developer already available in the system , I am trying to integrate VS Code using Rocket COBOL extension to do a BRD documentation using the Co-pilot features. We have two copybooks extension ,one with CPY and another COPYCOB. The intelisense is  able to identify the CPY copybooks but not the COPYCOB eventhough the extensions are mapped. Is there possibility to re-use the XML files of MFED for the integration of VS code.ThanksSanoop

I am trying to code Cobol programs, compile and execute. I need help on what I need to download to accomplish this. I  have worked on IBM mainframes using Cobol, jcl, ISPF, TSO, etc many years ago. I want to restart now. Please advice on what I need to do to get started. Thanks.

I have a relational database with a one-to-many table. When reading it in COBOL, I believe it's necessary to read the record key from the main table and the related records from the secondary table; I believe a read should be performed from the main table record key, and the related records from the secondary table would be stored in an "occurs" of that record.The  code  FD :  FD ARCHIVO-NUEVO.01 REG-NUEVO-FISICO.05 Fis-RecNumber PIC 9(6).05 Fis-Nombre PIC X(30).05 Fis-Tabla-Pagos.10 Fis-Nuevo PIC 9(8) OCCURS 100 TIMES. Is correct???Thanks

Hi everyone,I downloaded Visual COBOL for Eclipse Personal Edition Ubuntu 11.0.zip, but I am unable to complete the installation because of a license issue.The bundled license XML file appears to contain the following License Group:Visual COBOL for Eclipse Personal Edition_Windows-RPv1Since this is the Ubuntu/Linux download, I expected the license file to be for Ubuntu or Linux, not Windows.Has anyone else seen this issue with the Ubuntu 11.0 Personal Edition download?Is this Windows-RPv1 license XML actually valid for Ubuntu/Linux, or is the wrong license file included in the download package?If this is not the correct file, how can I obtain the correct Ubuntu/Linux Personal Edition license XML?Thanks.

Hi everyone,With the release of Rocket Visual COBOL 11 and Rocket COBOL Analyzer 11, we’ve introduced GenAI Insights helping any developer easily understand and navigate COBOL applications of any size and complexity.Discover what’s possible with GenAI Insight under 90 seconds:If you have any questions let us know in the comments,Your Rocket COBOL team

Hi everyone!With the release of Rocket ACUCOBOL extend 11, you got the support for the most popular dev tool out here, Visual Studio Code.  Now you can equip your teams to develop ACUCOBOL applications in VS Code, simplifying hiring / onboarding and speeding up development.See the extension in action in the short demo:Let us know what Rocket ACUCOBOL demos you’d like to see in the future in the comments.  

I have Visual COBOL + Microsoft Visual Studio on my Windows 11  laptop. I inadvertently deleted the shortcut that I used to launch Visual COBOL+VS. I cannot figure out how to restore the shortcut. Can anyone advise me on how to rebuild the correct shortcut? Thanks

Hello everyone,I just (6/4/26) download Visual COBOL for Eclipse Personal Edition Windows 11.0.zip   The C:\ProgramData\Micro Focus\CommuterLicFile.xml file is empty.License Administration cannot gener license.Anyone can help with generating trail license? How? Thanks.MA

We have a user that is on a Dell Laptop and two different times they have ran the Dell System Update process and Bench (ver 9.2) has started locking up on projects.  When this happens they get a “NOT RESPONDING” error from Windows and have to shut it down bench with task manager.  At times they can reboot the machine and it will work for a bit then start locking up again.  We have reinstalled bench on the machine but that did not fix the issue.  The only solution that worked was getting a new machine for that user but we don't want to do that again since this issue has now appeared on the new laptop also.Has anyone seen this happen after a system updates and if so how did you solve this issue? 

Good afternoon, is there a way to make acu-gt print using the same font as acutoweb?It seems that the font and size settings in the configuration file are ignored by acu-gt. 

To show records of a vision file we use paged-grids and the majority of our users are fine with that.There is one customer (and unfortunately our most important one) who wants a “standard scrollbar”.The answer that this is only doable when we know how many records are 100% does not convince him and he does not let it go.So we thought of a lazy-loading scenario.We load and show the first 100 records and when he drags the grid thumb all the way down to the end of the grid we try to load more records.The problem is that the grid does not give an event when reaching the last record.Does anyone have an idea how to solve this ?Or do you have a totally different approach ?

I’ve been using VC11 for Eclipse (Windows) for a couple of months now, and this seemly random highlighting of this is really getting on my nerves.  The image below shows a “simple” example.  It is often much worse.Here I just put my cursor on the top left and then cursored down some lines.  When my cursor reached line 14 the entire line, plus the first 3 characters of line 15, were suddenly highlighted for seemingly no reason.  Cursoring down again it removed highlight from 14 and highlights 15.  Other examples seem to be even more random.  Is this a known issue or what?  Anything I can do?  The only way to unhighlight is to open the Find box (Cntl-F) and then hit escape. 

I came upon the following and figured I’d give it a try:  https://docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle/netexpress_ug_51wrappack1_html/page/opclap_15.htm#s016As long as the ACTUAL-PARAMS compiler option is specified immediately before the template class (my term), you can build out the full class with the specified name and based on the specified class parameter.  Specifically “$SET ACTUAL-PARAMS(ELinklist Employee)” will build the ELinklist class with Employee being the “parameter class”.  Specifically, the parameter class “Element” in the source for PLinkList will be replaced with actual class Employee.But what if I want a second one, say ALinklist with class Another as the parameter?  If I put “$SET ACTUAL-PARAMS(ALinklist Another)” below the earlier ACTUAL-PARAMS it will create ALinklist, but ELinklist seems to be gone.I can post my exact source code if necessary.

In Java you can define “static initializers”, which are run automatically when the class is initially loaded.  In Java it’s something like this.public class Test { static { // do initialization here. }} Can this be done in Visual COBOL?  I tried googling it, but google AI seems to be returning nonsense.

Hello everyone,after installing a recent Windows 11 update, my NE 5.1 license is no longer recognized. The software now behaves as if no valid license is installed. So far, I have already tried repairing the NE 5.1, but without success.  Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Thank you in advance.

Hi , we are working with Microfocus Visual COBOL for Eclipse on Linux/UNIX V8.0 and we do a lot of call SYSTEM in a lot of programs .We take the return-code of de call SYSTEM and we have detected that when we run in a SO LINUX if the execution is with newrun the return-code is 0 , but mis the execution is from a transational monitor writted in C the return-code is alwais 1 The same programs executed in AIX returns 0  

Hello!Is there a way to change the color of SQL queries in the editor that does not change the color of unused items? I’ve only discovered one item in Fonts and Colors, COBOL Unused Item, that changes the color of SQL, but I don’t want to change both.Thanks. 

Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2022 11.0.0 failing install on windows server 2022. Visual studio community edition is installed, version 18.4.3 and “Workload for C++ Desktop Applications “ is installed. Setup fail with error:81f40001 - Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 17.8 or later has not been detected anyone enconter this issue?

Hi All, hope all is well.Well, I never thought I would get back to COBOL, but during the watching of a video about AI and MS Access, my colleague briefly mentioned COBOL.   I thought cool, I will check COBOL out, since it has been a while since I developed with the language.  And I am glad I did!   Doing a Google Search on COBOL, I came across Rocket Software’s COBOL infographic.   Wow!  I was blown a way that COBOL was so widely used to this day.   Well, it has been decades since I programmed with COBOL.   My first job, was on a OS/390 Mainframe (nicknamed “Old Charlie”) during the Y2K effort.  Another job had me using MicroFocus COBOL for a Web Patient Application.Now today (decades later), I am getting back into COBOL and taking the first certification offered by Rocket Software..  I am almost done.   A few questions for some assistance.VS Code - How do you setup tasks to compile programs and related sub programs..  Yeah, I could do each one manually, but it would be more efficient

Hi there,my backup-drive crashed and the installation file nxp3251110031.msp is corrupt. Is there any way to get a replacement?Best regardsHeinz-Bernd Diers

Our company is a very heavy user of AcuBench with thousands of projects. We also use VS Code for really test only code that still is in use in our system.  We are upgrading to Acu11 soon so I want to start playing with VS plug-in.  Is it as simple as just adding the plug-in to VS Code and opening a .pjt for a project?  Are there any required things to be installed on the machines that will be using it...for example does AcuBench have to be there or AcuGT? Thanks for any help as I get started on this journey to move from AcuBench to VS Code plug-in.

Hello I would like to compile cics pgms using personal edition but the cics copybooks are not there.  does rocket cobol personal edition allow me to compile cics pgms . i can see the db2 copy books but no cics.i can upload and recompile on z/os after i do my first test compile on vs cobol.thank you in advance for your assistance.

According to the documentation, if “FUNCTION ALL INTRINSIC” is specified in the Repository paragraph, the “FUNCTION” keyword is not required to refer to any intrinsic function.  Take the following program.       $set sourceformat"free"program-id. p.environment division.configuration section.repository.    function all intrinsic.data division.working-storage section.01  x               pic x(10).procedure division.    display function length(x)    display length(x)    goback.end program p.The first line of the procedure division (with function keyword) compiles fine.  The second like (no function keyword) gives the following error:    display length(x)*  13-S************                                                          ****    User-name requiredIs there a certain option required to activate this feature?Using Rocket (R) COBOL Version 11.0 (C).

Hi Folks,I have just finished reading my first book on Cobol Programming. I also finally got Visual Cobol installed in Visual Studio 2022 Community. I had to install and re-install Visual Cobol about a dozen times to get it installed properly.When I opened Visual Studio and went to Cobol it wanted me to install the license. I tried it a couple of times and it gave an error. Here is what happened:I clicked install license and it came up with an error. The error says unable to determine the status of the product license. ERROR DETAILS: Unable to obtain the requested license. Error 18: No license code is available for feature Solar Visual Studio 2010 on host1287.0.0.1.I think that this has been posted a few times, but when I don’t put such things in my posts, somebody always asks for it. I have zip file with a .xml, file thevcvs2022_110.exe, and the pdf file.Can somebody help me out with getting a license installed? I just finished reading my first book on Cobol. The title is COBOL Made E