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PROBLEM When trying to re-link the runtime to use Acu4GL 10.2.1 for Informix on Linux, the following error occurs after executing ‘make –f Makefile.inf’ and the re-link fails: /home/informix/lib/esql/checkapi.o: In function `ifx_checkAPI': checkapi.c:(.text 0x0): multiple definition of `ifx_checkAPI' /home/informix/lib/esql/checkapi.o:checkapi.c:(.text 0x0): first defined here collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Makefile.inf:251: recipe for target 'libruncbl64.so' failed make: *** [libruncbl64.so] Error 1   SOLUTION The following issues are fixed in AcuCOBOL-GT extend version 10.3.1 which is due for release later this year. Prior to that release, the following workarounds can be used. In the ‘lib’ directory of the Acu installation locate the Makefile.inf that was created when ‘sh inf_inst’ was executed. Open Makefile.inf in a text editor and make the following changes: On the line starting ‘FSI_LIBS = ‘ if there are 2 references to the file checkapi.o then remove the secon

PROBLEM When using the HTTPPOST function with extra headers the response received is ‘HTTP 400 - Bad Request’.   SOLUTION When using either HTTPPOST or HTTPGET there is the option to set extra headers. These extra headers could be either SOAPAction or Authorization headers etc. If this is not formatted correctly the server will respond with an error ‘HTTP 400 – Bad Request’ According to the documentation: extra-headers - An optional alphanumeric item specifying extra headers to be added to the HTTP header. This argument consists of name/value pairs separated by hex x"00", and ended with two x"00"'s. This could be set in the following format in WORKING-STORAGE: 01 EXTRA-HEADERS. 05 filler PIC X(10) value 'SOAPAction'. 05 filler PIC X value x"00". 05 filler PIC X(90) value '"https://SOAPURI"'. 05 filler PIC X value x"00". 05 filler PIC X(13) value 'Authorization'. 05 filler PIC X value x"00". 05 filler PIC X(30) value 'Basic base64-encoded-password'. 05 filler PIC X value x"00". 05

I have a masked text box control on my windows form which I want to use in order to display a SSN to the user. I chose a predefined mask description in the properties windows and it looks as follows: 000-00-0000.When I move a value that has leading zeroes to my mask text box, however, it drops the leading zeroes. For example, if I move a value of '000001234' to the mask text box, it displays it as follows:  123-4_-____. I works well if there are no leading zeroes. If I move the value '123456789'  to the mask text box for example, it displays it correctly as follows: '123-45-6789'. 

In Visual Cobol 5.0 for Visual Studio 2019 I can not get context help to work.When I hit F1 it goes to " lang:"en"&form=S00028" target="_blank">https://www.bing.com/search?q=how to get help in windows 10&filters=guid:"4028227-en-dia" lang:"en"&form=S00028 . When I hit F1 should it go to to online Visual Cobol Help?     

i wanted test the email sending on visual Cobol. I know at the base the example was written in netexpress 5.xI missed MF-Copy files as:commdlg.cpymfres.cpyminiwin.cpywingdi.cpywintypes.cpy (in MF-Files fail the Definition of lphandle)winuser.cpyAre there other files to be placed in source programs?Using the netexpress copy files in visual Cobol gives any error on the Syntax!I can posted this in a separate message!

Problem: After creating a new Data Source to connect to a network server from a client machine, the error is encountered when trying to connect to data via an ODBC application or odbcsql: ERROR: [TOD][ODBC Driver]INVHOSTSYN: Invalid host/service name syntax   Solution: Although all the information on the General tab appears to be correct and complete, on the Logging tab the Log Filename parameter is indicating a log file location that is either invalid or an area where the process does not have permission to create or write to the log file.  Correcting the Log Filename parameter to a valid location will allow the ODBC connection to complete without the INVHOSTSYN error.     For more information on AcuXDBC client and AcuXDBC Server errors, please see their respective documentation links below. Client error messages https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/extend-acucobol/103/extend-Interoperability-Suite/GUID-F61C168D-8903-4F89-88F8-7C257183AFAE.html Server error m

Problem: At times you may only have an AcuXDBC error number or error code but need more information. Solution: Starting with AcuXDBC version 10.3, error numbers and error codes have been documented in the following locations. Please see the documentation links below.   AcuXDBC Error Numbers and their meanings https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/extend-acucobol/103/extend-Interoperability-Suite/GUID-5EBD0E19-B351-45E0-8404-990401F1734F.html AcuXDBC Client error messages https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/extend-acucobol/103/extend-Interoperability-Suite/GUID-F61C168D-8903-4F89-88F8-7C257183AFAE.html AcuXDBC Server error messages https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/extend-acucobol/103/extend-Interoperability-Suite/BKXDXDTRBLXD9.3.html #TipfromSupport

There are a many examples how to send emails via MS Outlook and i think that is also possible with groupwise?Who as a done this? in the Moment i am able to send mail with the tool "blat.exe", the only Problem is that the mail don't appear in GroupwiseAre the a documentation for Groupwise api?thanks for help! 

We are looking at upgrading some of our internal servers; currently we have Xcentricity XBIS running on Server 2008, tried installing version 10.0.0 on on Server 2012 R2.  IIS does not serve up the srf pages, as if IIS doesn't recognize what the srf is.  When I use "XBIS /SHOWSERVER", I get "Show server failed: Class not registered".  When I try to register using "XBIS /REGSERVER", I get "Server rmcbl12r.dll registration failed: the specified module could not be found".Should version 10.0.0 work with Server 2012 R2 or do I need a later version?Or is there a dependency that is not installed? Thanks for any suggestions.

Need help with resetting a combo box. The combo box works fine if a name is selected. I also have a option to enter a customer number. If a wrong customer number is used the combo box will duplicate all the customers again. At the wrong customer I initialize the PO-BOX-CHOICES and reload the table. What might I be missing to prevent duplicates on the combo box?Screen1 is the normal Screen.Screen2 is when it duplicates.Working Storage is the table.Screen Function is the indexing of the combo box.screen2.jpgscreen1.jpgScreen Function.jpg

Is it possible to find the full license key number using the License Administration utility, AppTrack? 

I have managed to generate an XML file using the XML GENERATE statement but for some reason when I try use the NAME or TYPE phrases, the program doesn't compile.  I get an "Verb expected, NAME found" error.  Am I missing a copycode or definition?  Or do these only work on mainframe?

Hello,I need to create safearray (to pass it into COM object outside Cobol), and each item in this safearray must be PIC N string.I am using this code: move VT-BSTR to w-vartype move 1 to w-dimension move xx-z to cElements of w-saBound(1) move 0 to llBound of w-saBound(1) invoke OLESafeArray "new" using by value w-vartype w-dimension by reference w-saBound(1) returning w-hostArray end-invoke perform varying w-Index from 0 by 1 until w-Index >= xx-z invoke w-hostArray "putString" using by reference w-Index by value 100 by reference w-item(w-Index 1) returning w-hresult end-invoke end-performWhere w-item is PIC N(100). But it's not working, on the other side in C#, I receive in string variable co

Problem: Each Server (region) running under Enterprise Server shows, on its Server > Properties > General tab, settings named Shared Memory Pages and Shared Memory Cushion.  These have default values such as 512 and 32, for example.  But the values might need to be adjusted to be certain the Server has enough shared memory.  When a Server is running under load and the shared memory settings are exceeded, the following error might appear in the console.log:  'CASKC0007W Shared memory storage constrained'.  How should a person decide what values to specify? Solution: The product documentation contains charts to help estimate the amount of shared memory a Server might require, for example as shown on this page: http://documentation.microfocus.com/help/topic/com.microfocus.eclipse.infocenter.visualcobol.eclipseux/BKCACACONFS011.html But in practice Micro Focus end-users usually establish values for the Shared Memory Pages and Share

Is there any way to redeem a  Cobol Server license key purchased in 2008 by mý company? The only information i have is the serial number.

Hi.  We are evaluating AcuToWeb.  Our application is actually running in the 10.2.1 version and fairly well, so congratulations to the development team.  We do a couple tricks which require W$TEXTSIZE to know the pixel length of strings as they appear on the screen.  If we use W$TEXTSIZE, it works perfectly, but is very slow over an internet connection (repeated loops where server sends request to client and gets answer back, so high latency slows things down)  We came up with a trick to operate over the internet (with thin client) where we cache the character sizes in our fonts, using W$TEXTSIZE once per character at startup instead of having to use W$TEXTSIZE on every string we display, since that is VERY slow.  This works great on the thin client because the fonts don't use kerning or change size due to anti-aliasing, so the server can pre-calculate string sizes.   When working with AcuToWeb, the strings are variable # of pixels per charac

Hi everyone.The recent online webinar about the 10.3.0 release had a section where they showed off the new ability to insert javascript functionality.  As an example, they showed a signature capture function.  I reviewed the 10.3.0 documentation for AcuToWeb and could not find references for how to use the new javascript functionality - ie how to trigger it from cobol and/or how to capture the result of the javascript - ie how to get the signature that was just captured.  So I was hoping to review the code from that webinar example.  A quick look did not show where they might have stashed it on the website.

Technical expert Blair McDonald from Micro Focus discusses and demonstrates advanced debugging techniques available in Visual COBOL for Eclipse. https://youtu.be/1IH2DJ2Z1oM #HowTo-BestPractice#Videos

Introduction to Visual COBOL for Eclipse   Technical expert Blair McDonald from Micro Focus provides a “Getting Started” walk-thru of the Visual COBOL for Eclipse product. ...   #Videos

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 30 June 2009]My colleague Claudio has created this nice little example on how to send fax from ACUCOBOL-GT using the Windows Fax Services.Thought we should share it with you, as I seem to remember there were an inquiry for this some time ago. To run this, you have to generate the fxcomdef.def using AxDefGen.exe.You also need to provide the document to fax.        IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.       PROGRAM-ID. fax-from-cobol.       ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.       CONFIGURATION                SECTION.       SPECIAL-NAMES.           COPY    "fxscomex.def".                   .       DATA        DIVISION.       WORKING-STORAGE        &nbs

Has anyone successfully used this ?Is there anyone at MicroFocus, ( developer, support person, etc, ), that can tell me that it actually works.  I am trying to talk to a Verifone credit card reader connect on my network. #CSOCKET#Verifone

Hi, i implemented below logic, But, call "HttpPost" does not work.... what is causing issue on my code.? Or MicroFocus software has issue?Move spaces to XMLFILE1-ID.String LS-DIR-HOMEDRIVE-VALUE ":"LS-DIR-HOMETEMP-VALUE"TMP\\file1.xml"delimited by spaces into XMLFILE1-IDEnd-String.Move spaces to XMLFILE2-ID.String LS-DIR-HOMEDRIVE-VALUE ":"LS-DIR-HOMETEMP-VALUE"TMP\\file2.xml"delimited by spaces into XMLFILE2-IDEnd-String.XML INITIALIZE.IF NOT XML-OKGO TO 004-END-PROCESSEND-IF.open OUTPUT XMLFILE1.If XMLFILE1-STATUS = "00" or "10" or SPACEcontinueelsePERFORM 005-ERROR-STATUSEND-IF.move WS-AUTH-XML to XMLFILE1-REC.write XMLFILE1-REC.close XMLFILE1.XML GET TEXTrequest-payloadrequest-len "XMLFILE1-ID"IF NOT XML-OKGO TO 004-END-PROCESSEND-IF.PERFORM 001-NET-INIT.call "HttpPost"usingPost-Address1Content-Typerequest-payloadrequest-lenresponse-payloadresponse-lenDesired-SOAP-Action1givingresponse-st

In Server Express you have the command cobfile that you can use to identify how a gnt file was built, i.e.$ cobfile k9initora.gnt k9initora.gnt: Micro Focus 64-bit generated code file for Intel x86 (Win64)$ cobfile k9initora.gntk9initora.gnt: Micro Focus 64-bit generated code file for HP/UX IA64My question is simple, with Visual Cobol is there some tool that can do this? /Robert

I am a complete newbie when it comes to socket and HTML connections.I can get SOCKCLI, SOCKSRV1 and SOCKSRVM to work but not SOCKHTML.When I type a web address or IP address as SERVER-NAME, I get 'Unable to connect to server'.When I type plain numbers instead, the program stops responding.Is there a specific format for SERVER-NAME? How to get this program to work? What does this program actually do?

Hi,for continuous integration purposes, I would need to build single .netmodules from my Visual Cobol Classes. They will be joined in a single assembly and distributed.I'm looking for a command like csc or vbc, that takes  a class as input and build from it a  .netmodule. Is there a way to achieve this goal?  Thank you in advance,    Piero