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Hi, We need to take data from our Vision database and import it to a pdf form. Is there a component in Acucobol which could help us to do this?

 I have a line sequential file that I am wanting to convert to an indexed file.  This is just for my own edification.  I am using the classic data tools to do the conversion.  My index is the social security number which begins at position 32 and is 9 characters long.  The sequential file has variable length records with a max length of 66 characters.  When I do the conversion, it ask for minimum of 41 and max of 66 which I use.  The conversion goes through without any problem.  When I open the file using the data tools I can see the ssn highlighted as the primary key.  However, when I read the file into my cobol program, I am constantly getting a 4/7 open error.  Any suggestions on why this is happening or what I need to do differently when doing the conversion?   Thanks.

Hello all, can anyone help me with this? I need to get the info from the clipboard. I found some info on this forum about CLIPACU.DLL which could do the trick, but I cannot find it anywhere (before it was located on the AcuCorp sample directory) The purpose I need it for is the get the info from the clipboard and being able to put it in a grid by a simple Ctrl-V command. Maybe someone has an other solution for this. Thanks in advance, Ruud

Hi guys, we are working using MICRO FOCUS SERVER EXPRESS 5.1 for pSeries running AIX installed on the customer machine and we need to develop an application that need to interface with  a web service. Actually running the command : imtkmake -genclientwsdl clientwsdl=SRVGestoreSITAv02_SerMed_SRVGestoreSITAv02.wsdl defaultstringsize=500 no generation of client proxy is made and the only message from the above command simply return : The generation of the COBOL client from WSDL failed we do not have any other message from imtkmake to understand the reason of the failure. Someone have any suggestion on how to understand why imtkmake fail to generate the client proxy ? Thank in advance.   I've attach the zipped version of the wsdl that I'm using. WSDL_5F00_FILE.zip

I receive the following runtime error in a visual cobol naïve code application when deployed on a network workstation, program is called from a menu program;     I can run the program on my development workstation without issue.  Ideas on what I might have wrong?

 When running an application we developed on The server, we will randomly see this error Any idea what could be causing this?  The application we wrote is a re-entrant com DLL.

I am trying to edit the default.aspx.designer.cbl in my cobol web application and finding it quite challenging. Is it possible to create a form (much easier) and then use that instead of the default.cbl? Failing that where can I find help editing the landing page? My cobol program was displaying a screen but this does not work with the web application. I will have many screens to design and there must be an easier way. Any help will be appreciated. Shirley

What could cause a COBOL EXIT PROGRAM command to immediately stop the extend 32-bit runtime?

I have an net xpress 3.0.49 runtime and I compile with object cobol. Ass long I use only ".int" the runtime works. But now I have to compile and link some applications für execute direct.   Anyone have an old Net Express 3.0.49 compiler with dongle? I will buy it directly. I am not interesting in buying a new expensive version. I just help my last one and only customer using MicroFocus Net Express.   PLEASE HELP#COMPILER#cobolnetexpress#netexpress3.10

Hi With -P SPOOLER we are abled to print image are we with -P PDF ? Thank you  

How would you convert this to cobol.   ReportParameter p1 = new ReportParameter("param1", _p1);ReportViewer1.LocalReport.SetParameters(new ReportParameter[] { p1 });

We don't use Acubench We work with the screen section Every control has an ID assigned by us Is it possible to inquire the current control if you only know the id ?

I am using net express 5.1 under linux 7 (64 bit) os. using ingress 10.1 (64 bit).  ESQL rcoo1000.scb: Execution error : file ''error code: 114, pc=0, call=1, seg=0114 Attempt to access item beyond bounds of memory (Signal 11) cob64: error(s) in code generation: rcoo1000.intCompilation Unsuccessful echo rcoo1000.cbl

I'm looking for information about the enabling function keys and page-up page-down keys etc. I'm having trouble determining how to intercept page-up / page-down keys.

I would like to check the possibility to implement a trigger behavior using COBOL NetExpress 5.1 for C-ISAM files.   There is a set of Legacy COBOL programs that opens lots of BOOKS and C-ISAM files (IDX3) and I am trying to do a non intrusive approach to update data on my database when the C-ISAM file is altered (by update or insert).  If something like that could be done I would not need to change all the codes of my legacy.   I am not closed in this approach.  I am open to suggestions.#netexpress#c-isam#NetExpress5.1#Linux#trigger

 Sorry about starting new post, but the first one it's seems dead, and important information are hidden within many posts. I need to setup remote debug between two machines with Windows Server OS. I am able to use remote debug when on both machines (development and application) is Net Express installed. But I hope, that there is a way to have Net Express installed only on development machine, and on application machine is only end-user runtime, but I am unable to make it. Please what should I deploy on application machine to get this work? In my case, I have only 2 Net Express licences, but I have one development machine and five application machine (with different versions of my application). Thanks a lot for any suggestion.#remote#NetExpress5.1#COBOL#debugging

I have Net Express 3.0.14 and all applications are in 16-bit after compiling. How can I change it to run on 32/64-bit?   Thx   PS.: I do NOT want to upgrade to a newer version. I need it only for me and a new version is much to expensive#Windows#cobolnetexpress#64bitcompilationissue#netexpress#32bit

Is it worth learning native cobol or should i jump right into .net or managed?  Thoughts?

I am receiving the above C0000005 Access Violation error when I am trying to animate. This is in all of our development regions. We just upgraded to Windows 2012 R2 Server and it has occurred since that upgrade.   Thanks

The environment is Visual COBOL 2017 and the objective is to put a program into sleep mode for one minute. Looking in the COBOL manual there is a System Routine of CBL GC NANOSLEEP that will do the job but the call to this routine fails (not found). Searching my C drive does not find the routine. So my questions are; 1. Is this routine the way to go or are there other alternatives?  2.  If this is the alternative, how do I acquire this System Routine?

I'm using the mFFH cobol facility to create a file trace in a managed cobol program.  It's working file, but when I run cobfhrepro3 to produce a report of the trace, the file name on the report is only 30 bytes.  I'm using a fully-qualified UNC path as the file name, and it's way more than 30 bytes. Is there a way to tell the trace facility or cobfhrepro3 to display more than 30 bytes of the file name? Just a bit of background...the program I'm tracing wasn't written by me, and was written in native cobol.  I converted it to managed cobol so we could use it in a WCF service.  After about 500 runs, the service crashed in the Micro Focus file handler.  I'm guessing that there is a file that is not being closed, so the system is running out of file handles.  Since the program uses a lot of files, I'm using the trace facility to try to match opens and closes. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!#trace

I know you can do this with invoke, list and add but can it be done with traditional cobol.  I want to create a list of class objects.  So I have a class that consists of student information These all have properties set. class-id TO_Students.       Working-Storage Section.               01  _studentname                     pic x(30)      private.               01  _studentid                       pic x(9)       private.               01  _studentmajor  &n

I'm currently trying to use VisualCobol for Eclipse for our legacy code base, in order to modernize our development tools. Up until now we develop in a text editor and compile our cobol-programs via shell script directly on the AIX target. Essentially the script executes the call of the precompiler and the cobol compiler separately. Depending on project conventions (basically naming of the sourcecode), the programm is compiled as standalone binary or as member of one of our shared object libaries. This approach of course requires different arguments to the compilers to achieve this goal. Now I have tried to create a similar behavior running in Eclipse but unfortunately failed with different approaches. What I like to achieve is that, when I start the compile of a single sourcecode in the IDE (via the option compile from the context menu of a cobol file in an remote cobol project), that my buildfile is executed instead of the project generated .cobolBuild. Manipulating the

I am trying to set the ID for the fields in screen section instead of using the automatic assignment based on the placement. Some fields allow me to set the ID but other will cause compilation errors. Is it possible to set the ID for controls that do not have "ENTRY-FIELD" (See #41)       * #43           05 MS-AF-LAST-COST  ENTRY-FIELD, VALUE AF-LAST-COST,              BEFORE    PROCEDURE IS MARK-PLACE-LAST-COST              AFTER     PROCEDURE IS CHECK-LAST-COST              EXCEPTION PROCEDURE IS CHECK-FUNCTION-KEYS              LINE 13   POSITION  70 NO-BOX, RIGHT    &nb

Hi! I'm having some problems with my database connection. I'm using Visual COBOL v4.0 (with Visual Studio 2017) and my database is Informix 3.5. I'm using Micro Focus ADO.NET Connection Editor to create an ADO.NET Data Source, with OpenESQL as ESQL Preprocessor. The ESQL connection statement from my COBOL program is: connect to "CobolInformix" (obviously "CobolInformix" is the already configured DSN). It works flawlessly until I am working on "standard" databases, allowing program to receive and write data.But when I try to get data from databases with specific connection settings (such as db_locale=en_us.1252 or unicode=true), I got an error ("Illegal use of host variables") because I can't set that properties. In another application, I'm using C# to access to the same database with a connection string similar to this: Ifxoledbc.2;Data Source=myDatabase@myServer;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=user;Password=*****;Pooling=false;db_locale=en_us.1252;client_local