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When Converting a application that generates a .DLL  I am getting a very vauge error:[cobollink] Micro Focus COBOL - CBLLINK utility[cobollink] Version 4.0.0.65 Copyright (C) Micro Focus 1984-2018. All rights reserved.[cobollink][cobollink] Link complete with errors[cobollink]cobol.cfg.Generic_Debug_Build:nature.specific.build.cfg.Generic_Debug_Build:post.build.cfg.Generic_Debug_Build:cobolbuild.cfg.Generic_Debug_Build:BUILD FAILEDBuild finished with 1 errors, 0 warnings, 0 notices and a maximum exit code of 0Maximum exit code exceeded: 0Total time: 4 seconds-------------------------------BUILD FINISHED------------------------------ Is there any way to get an expanded detail on the issue with the link? 

Our POS system is written in RM/COBOL.  We are using old Ithaca receipt printers.  Ithaca is no longer making receipt printers.  I need to modify our system so that it will handle both Ithaca and Epson printers.  I am having issues translating the old Ithaca control codes to the Epson ESC/POS proprietary command system codes.  Does anyone have any examples of COBOL using the Epson receipt printers?  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

I have an odd problem. I have 2 windows 10 machines running Windows 10 version 1803. One has Pro 1803 and went through the 1709 fiasco, and the second one has home 1803. On the home 1803 rm-cobol 7.0 runs like a champ, whereas on the Pro version 1803, RM 7.0  will not run. When I execute the batch to run the software the command line window appears, but the runtime does not appear as a process unless I 'X" the window.  The machine will run any program that does no screen i-o. Also the compiler will compile but will not open a window.   I know this is odd, but any ideas?  I have been bashing my brains out on this for quite some time. Thanks in advance for any clues. Let me add this: On the pro machine, the runtime will run (for a example a print-only program) if there is no screen i-o. As if it will not create a window. I should point out that this is a standard windows 10 machine with no special display options. The RM runtime ran perfectly until the i

I looked for Chris Glazer's post but couldn't match his location to what the page was showing.  The powers that be here at my employer have decided to pony up the dollars for Micro Focus COBOL.  I am charge of the upgrade.  Our current application, with batch and online portions, is running under NetExpress.  The application uses CICS and has a SQL Server backend.  Will it still run under Net Express?

Can anyone tell me what "system error value = 0" means. The affected user is running wrun32 v10.1 and on one Windows 10 workstation sees that message displayed on the terminal before the session crashes. I have found in the v10 doc references to other values, but not to 0.

Hi GuysI have a question regarding the C compiler.The customer has removed the original C compiler and replaced it with a ‘gcc’ compiler, but when I compile it is looking for the original ‘CC’.Where in COBOL Is the definition of the C compiler to use.Many ThanksRichard

We have a simple application (in Windows) which works fine in thick client and thin-client.  It uses several different fonts and sizes to get the look we wanted.When displaying in AcuToWeb, the use of these different fonts result in undesireable appearances - buttons overlap grids and entry fields, and many other visual oddities.  I understand it is because of the fonts; when I looked at the AcuToWeb documentation, under "Limitations and Known Issues" it says:If your application uses a non-default font, and you have inconsistencies between the font sizing in the AcuToWeb application and the application when run through AcuThin, then you must use the AcuToWeb Desktop with your AcuToWeb application, to allow the font rendering to be handled within extend.My question is what constitutes a "default font"?  Is it an accept statement from "DEFAULT-FONT", or something else?  I'd rather not have to do trial and error to figure out which fon

Good morning Is it possible at runtime startup that it does not load printers only if it needs them?

We have following problem:- we are using the testversion of VC4.0- we try to call a cobol program from java- so we created a JVM-Project with two cobol files -> program1.cbl and copy1.cpy - and a Java-Project with-> CobolCallDemoDefaultPackage.java within a java-Project.- now we tried to call Program1 with Copy1 as parameter, but we get the following compiler-error:"The type com.microfocus.cobol.program.Reference cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files" public static void main(String[] args) {PROGRAM1 program1 = new PROGRAM1();Copy1 copy1 = new Copy1();copy1.setEDatum("20180101");program1.PROGRAM1(copy1);  <- doesn't work: The type com.microfocus.cobol.program.Reference cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class filesSystem.out.println(copy1.getADatum());}Where is our mistake ?Thanks for any hint !    

Extend 10.2 - when executed from a command prompt on server - all is well the following code is executed and file is created and pdf viewer displays output.This program is reading oracle tables        306-PDF-CALL.           MOVE SPACES TO WS-PDF-TEXT-FILENAME, WS-PDF-FILENAME,                          WS-PDF-CALL, WS-START-PDF-FILENAME.           MOVE WS-CALL-FILE TO WS-PDF-TEXT-FILENAME, WS-PDF-FILENAME.           INSPECT WS-PDF-TEXT-FILENAME             REPLACING TRAILING SPACES BY "!".                     

I am writing a web application.I have a standard login form to enter user number and password. I then need to pass this to a cobol program to validate before returning and continuing.The login form is called from the Site.Master

I call an .aspx page which has a Gridview with data from SQL tables. I select one record and then want to return to my original page which will be populated with the record selected.I can do a Response::Redirect to the original page but this does not pass the information back.How do I link the two pages or how do I tell the first page which record has been selected.Many thanksShirley 

Hi,We are trying to insert a file in a BLOB in the database. Is it possible to do it with Acucobol? Do someone have a sample for that?The support team said that BLOB type is not supported but maybe someone found a way to deal with this restriction.We have a variable defined in this way:01 documento-BLOB SQL TYPE IS BLOB(1048576).We can do a select but when we want to do an insert we receive a memory access violation error.Regards,

Problem User is trying to run 64bit version of Xcentrisity Business Information Server (XBiS) and was getting the following error when XBiS was started. What does the error mean? Syntax error on line 547 of /opt/freeware/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 2 of /opt/freeware/etc/httpd/conf/mod_xbis.conf: Cannot load /usr/local/liant/bis/mod_xbis/mod_xbis24.so into server: \\t0509-022 Cannot load module /usr/local/liant/bis/mod_xbis/mod_xbis24.so.\\n\\t0509-026 System error: Cannot run a file that does not have a valid format. Resolution The important part of the error message was:             Cannot run a file that does not have a valid format. The above error was caused by a byte architecture mismatch between XBiS and Apache. The XBiS product was a 64bit version and the Apache product was a 32bit version. The resolution of the issue was to install and use the 64bit Apache product. Another way to resolve this issue is t

On moving from Server 2008 to server 2016, what controls the initial back ground color when you run an app via wrun32.exe?  On server 2008 and background is a dark gray, on server 2016 it is now a light gray. would like to go back to the dark gray. 

I have successfully used RMNet and HTTPPost commands to complete some integrations.  I have a new integration request and this one does not use HTTPPost, they are using the REST web service and HTTPPUT and HTTPGET commands.  I can issue a HTTPGET successfully and I am connecting, etc, but the PUT is not part of RMNet.  What other workarounds can I consider for communicating via REST and PUT commands?  The POST command is denied on the end server... when I attempt it, I get a result returned that says "No protocol for POST commands."... I tried just, even though their documentation states POST commands are not allowed.  I am not sure what other options I have with AcuCobol-GT to allow me to use the PUT command.  

Hello,while using the c$copy routine to transfer a file from a client to the server the transfer stops after a few bytes have been transfered and the application just stops and waits for the transfer to end.Also using the w$progressdialog it stops at some point with a slightly filles progressbar.Does anyone know how to handle this issue?Thanks in advance!

Here is something that took me a while to figure out.  I haven't seen any questions about it but I can't be the only one who wants to see the values of the Settings.  I was trying to make sure my app.config transforms were working so I put a menu entry on my form under "Help" to show the values of the application settings.    All of the posts I found kept telling me to use the DefaultValue setting.  Finally, I wised up and first got the name of the setting, then used the name to get the value.  "MNU002" is the name of the program.  Using this, I could check that the transforms put the right values into the Debug, Test, and Release versions of my app.config, depending on the Solution Configuration in effect when I did my Rebuild.Of course, just using a Setting is as easy asdeclare Setting as type MNU002.Properties.Settingsset Setting to new type MNU002.Properties.Settingsmove Setting::AOC_ApplicationsServer to ServerNameBut I wanted to show a

Which program(s) are you using to integate your applicatons with eMail? We tried MapiLand years ago, and because it could not handle the volume if eMail that our programs generated replaced it with Redemtion which has worked very well for us except with sone Exchange servers.Regards,

We provide several applications that produce high volumns of email (paystubs, W2s, AR statements, etc. - never SPAM) by using Redemption to send the email to Outlook. It works very well except when the user is on an Exchange server and uses Outlook 365.  In that case sometimes, not always, some of the email generated by our program doesn't arrive at the Outlook Outbox. Has one else encountered this problem, and if so have you found a solution/work around?Thanks,Sal

Hi,I'm now trying for a pretty while to generate a Web Service Proxy via the imtkmake comand line tool but keep failing. My requirement is to consume a Web Service in "classic" imperative Cobol on an AIX-Plattform.I'd like to use the tool directly on AIX with Visual Cobol Dev Hub 3.0 installed, invoking it with the parameters -genclientwsdl clientwsdl=<mywsdlfile>. But all i get are two further xml files (*!!1 and *!!2) and following output:Micro Focus Interface Mapping Toolkit v3.0.00 Copyright (C) 2017 Micro Focus. All rights reserved. The runtime system failed to locate the installed SCHEMA directory. The generation of the COBOL client from WSDL failed.I've already validated my wsdl I'm using via SOAP UI as suggested by  in this Post.Searches for the stated error lead to no conclusive answers. What am I missing to sucessfully generate such a proxy? Or can't this be done with my configuration?Thanks in advance!

We installed relativity 2.2 on our test server last year but never got around to doing it on our production server and am now finding my notes dont' make sense. We were able to read our current (v12) relativity files after the update but not update them.  After discussing with someone in support, I was told I needed to create a directive file on the server.  I remember what was in the directive file but I don't have good notes on what it was named. I believe that if I had a relativity catalog named relABC that I needed to create a directive file called relABC.directive but I'm unsure.  It was because we dont use Dev Hub in our Visual Cobol setup on Linux.I cannot find anything about this directive file anywhere in the documentation.  Can someone help?  I'm trying to avoid setting up a support case. 

 I cannot see a way to do this in Visual Cobol 4.0 ( ie select fields from a database to bind to a text box or datagrid etc.  in a Form.) I know I can do this with code (I found several examples in the Knowledge Base). Is this facility supported in Form Design?. If not are there any plans to do so?. The majority of my work involves database processing via Windows or Web Forms and to have to program this for every form would be a lot of  repetitive work. Thanks for the help   Charlie

Listview works very fine to display a list. Is there also a procedure to modify/capture directly one field within the List? I think about something similar to a spreadsheet where you can modify directly the contents of one cell and not the whole row. In the lviewctl appear lots of  DB-Call-Function, but no one to fill only one field (cell) of the whole list. Any help?  I want to Change only the marked cell.  Or is the only solutiuon copy the whole row to individual entry fields? Thanks for any help.

I want to use net express 3.1 manuell compiling in the dos-box. I am searching for all switches and directives that I can use while compiling (COBSW, LIB, .....)  Create an exe-file or and obj or int .....     Anyone can help me?  #netexpress#Compiling#cobolnetexpress#netexpress3.10