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Does VisualCobol in Managed mode support .NET Core 2.0 on LINUX?

HI All I have got the 10.1.0 Dev Suite and I have been led to believe that the 32bit version of this comes with the Acusql precompiler Presumably to compile a cobol source program I will need the 10.1.0 compiler to pick up the precompiler ?   I have 10.1.1 runtime and but I only have the 64bit version licenses not the 32bit.  If I have compiled as per stated above does that mean I MUST execute the 32bit runtime?  I  purchased a 32 bit runtime license for AcuSQL last June 2017 but Micro Focus have been unable to supply such a license.  I get a delivery notice but when I go to the website to "email summary" I get message "This order does not contain any License Key information"  Has anyone seen that before?  The support people in Sydney do not seem to know how to get round this.   Would I be right in thinking that : a) I need 32bit runtime and 32 bit licenses b) I need the 32bit ACUSQL runtime and license c) when I compile using

Hello, one of the Indexed file is being corrupted all the time. This file gets updated through out the day. It has been working for past 20 years. the problem started recently. unable to find the root cause. When use rebuild utility, we are loosing some data. This file has three alternate keys. Help anyone please!!!!!!!

I've a web browser control which is used to display a image when I do the http call.   I am wondering if there is a way to save this image off and resize it or store so I can do the call and get the back and print both sides at one time.    I can print one side at a time but if possible I would like to do both at the same time.   I also have some calls where the image comes back upside down so I would like to save it and rotate it if possible to display right side up.  Would anyone have any suggestions on how or if I could do this.    Thank you.

Hi  How do you handle automatic update of the Acucobol thin client.  We are using ATC files, and the ATC files is associated with the thin client we are using right now (10.1)  When we set the normal port to the next version 10.2  the user are prompted if they would upgrade, and then the download runs and succeeds. But it does not change the association to the acuthin client before. that means that every time the user clicks his ATC file they are asked to upgrade.  Has anybody found a solution for this   Best Regards Steen  

Good morning, I have a question regarding the RM-COBOL we do not have the xcentrisity so we use programs in C or Java to make consumptions of webservice or make communications with dataphones or perform specialized management of devices such as scale etc, to execute these programs we make this sentence            CALL "SYSTEM" USING COMMAND-TO-EXECUTE                    ON EXCEPTION                       ERROR                    NOT ON EXCEPTION                       CANCEL "SYSTEM"        

I have made a dll with visual cobol for visual studio 2.3 and it works in a web project asp c # locally. The dll works correctly using the visual studio environment 2012 in a machine with cobol server 2.3. If it is deployed in a local IIS it works, but if it is deployed in a windows server with IIS and cobol server 2.3 it does not work. the cobol server is correctly licensed. Apply the configurations mentioned in community.microfocus.com/.../deploy-a-visual-cobol-asp-net-web-site-under-iis and still continue without function. What additional configuration should be applied? How to add to the IIS the environment of the cobol server 2.3? I appreciate in advance the collaboration that I can provide.

Hi all, I'm just interested to know if others have this issue.  I'm using VS2015 in Windows 10 but had same problem with earlier versions. VS starts updating (I assume that's what it's doing) without warning while I'm working and prevents me working. Initially i think there's a problem and perhaps end up re-booting.  The update can go on for hours and at no point does it actually indicate it is running updates. It's really infuriating. Any advice?  My laptop is not the fastest but it's not a slow machine. Another possibility is this is caused by issues with the continuous background MF COBOL parsing.  Is that likely?  Can it be turned off? Many thanks, Linden

I installed Visual Cobol for Visual Studio 2017 with a free personal license to do some tests. Now I have requested the 30 days complete trial (if needed, my support code is 600000740231). I found the product key in the download page, but I cannot find where I should enter it to activate my product and remove the 2200 lines limitation. Can someone help me? Thank you in advange!

I need to get info from tables in database X, which the COBOL program is connected to, and insert info from them to a table in database Y, which the program is not connected to.  Is there a way to do this in one program?  If yes, how do I reference the copybook for the table in database Y.  If I need to connect to Y, what does that do to the connection with X?  Thanks.

Hello,   Since GDPR will be implemented on 25 May 2018, I am looking for a solution to do data encryption on SQL Server column level. I know SQL Server 2016 SP1 has a "Always Encrypted" feature that can do the column-level encryption. I would like to know does Acu4GL support "Always Encrypted" feature if SQL Server 2016 SP1?   Regards,   Bobby 

Hi, Can someone please advise from where I can download the 'Cobol Server' for Visual Cobol 3 for Visual Studio? I understand that it need to be deployed as part of the application, Thanks in advance,

Hello, there is a way, using c$xml, to add a partial XML (identified by an handle) as child of another XML tag?   Regards Paolo#XML#cxml

How do I insert my catalog and cobol program?

2110.relativity.docx Well since the last time that I did the merge the fillers are showing but this position and length are not right. This is the file fd for this first filler. It should be what the previous was. Plus when I create my tables it also comes up with a message to rename the filler because it is not a valid sequel name, or i can click the cancel button to skip. 000400 FD  ACCOUNT-FILE 000500         LABEL RECORDS ARE STANDARD   112408         RECORD CONTAINS 2000 CHARACTERS. 000700  000800 01  ACCOUNT-RECORD-FD.  000900     05  AC-KEY. 001000         10  AC-NUMBER     PIC S9(11)   COMP-3. 112408     05  FILLER                   PIC X(1994).  

Sorry posted wrong info  In the details it is giving the previous position of the first 01 Account record fd and giving the new position of the filler in the account record under name. 

I have relativity installed on a Windows 7. I am having a problem with <filler> when doing merge. It is treating fillers like they are new fields but since that are not in the catalog it has no place to resolve the issue.  I had relativity installed on a Window xp and I never had this problem. My windows 7 is a new pc so my relativity was a fresh install. I didn't do the install and the man that did do the install is not here no more. So I do not know how everything was installed.

I have a COBOL program that opens a window and hosts a NET UserControl component, which has been declared in the Screen Section.  I would like to allow the user to press the ESC key and have the program close.  I have tried to capture the key in the NET component, but it looks like control goes directly back to COBOL and bypasses any event handlers in the component completely.  I am OK with that, as I wanted to handle it in COBOL anyway.  I started with a delegate event handler, as shown in AmortControl, but when I found that the key was not being captured in the component, I removed the event handler since there was no way to fire it.  The problem I have is that when the exception is caught in the screen accept statement, and I proceed to evaluate the value, it is MSG-VALIDATE.  In other screens of the COBOL program, the ESC key (pressed in COBOL) closes the currently running program.  I am unsure where MSG-VALIDATE came from.  I ran AmortContro

 We have a COBOL program that we use to send emails from our system written in COBOL. It uses SMTP to link to email servers via a Socket using C$SOCKET and works well. We even send binary attachments using base-64 conversion. Now this works fine and was based on the example program sendmail. We now have a new requirement to access a specific email address, and we want to retrieve all emails sent to it, and update our system creating a service call. Has anyone else done this? Is there an example COBOL source code that does this? I have looked for one but have not found anything.  Any help would be most appreciated. Regards Brian

Is NetExpress version 5.1 compatible with Windows Server 2012 R2?   Thank you, Carol Carr

Hello RMCobol Community.  Please allow me to ask for help with XBIS, specifically "B$SetInactivityTimeout" and "B$SetServiceTimeout"   There are 3 ways to set "SetInactivityTimeout" Globally, BIS_SESSION_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT=600 In the .srf “SessionParms(InactivityTimeout=600) From the service program, Call "B$SetInactivityTimeout" using {600}   BIS_SESSION_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT=600 has lowest priority and can be overwritten by: SessionParms(InactivityTimeout=600) Call "B$SetServiceTimeout"   When setting “SetInactivityTimeout” from the service program, “Call "B$SetServiceTimeout"” must be done before “Call "B$ReadRequest"” in order for the timeout to become effective.   My question: Is my understanding of “SetInactivityTimeout” correct?       There are 3 ways to set "SetServiceTimeout" Globally, BIS_SERVICE_TIMEOUT=30 In the .srf “SessionParms(ServiceTimeout=30)” From the service program, Call "B$SetServiceTimeout" using {30}   BIS_SERVICE

I have a simple Cobol program that calculates prime numbers sequentially. By default the output is directed to a DOS window. I would like to direct the output to a Windows Form. All of the Visual Cobol forms examples I have seen accept input from the user and display a predetermined result. Is there a method to use the display command in Cobol to direct output to a Window form ? Any program or project examples would be appreciated.

Hi,   Today, after the Windows 10 Prof system proposed that I upgrade to revision 1803, the NetExpress license tells me that it has been corrupted. Before this update, NetExpress was working properly. I tried to recover it with the command "sfc /scannow" and also running a NetExpress repair, but it didn't work. Will you tell me how to proceed to get my license back? Thank you in advance

Hello, We have 3x separate sites one of which is Covoco have started displaying the attached since last week which makes us think that it may be related to a Windows Update/similar that was related. All of the sites have older versions running on them and have been running on those versions for months/years. There was no plan to upgrade them as in some cases the clients may be moving to another CMS, but it's our understanding that these older versions should run indefinitely. Reactivating them seems to remove the attached from being displayed, but only for a while and/or until the service/server is restarted. Is anyone else experiencing this behaviour? What can be done to make these older versions continue to run as is for now? Any assistance gratefully received!Thank you.

PROBLEM When AcuConnect Distributed Processing is under a heavy load the error message ‘Program missing or inaccessible’ maybe seen and the runtime will crash or hang. This is reproduced when the Server is Linux and the client is Windows. RESOLUTION On a very fast network and performing thousands of socket operations, the server does not have enough time to close a socket before opening a new one and as a result it is running out of sockets.  The solution is to configure the operating system to reuse and recycle sockets. On Linux systems run the following commands as root:     sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1     sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=1   To make this configuration permanent use:     net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1     net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=1 in - /etc/sysctl.d/99-tcp-reuse.conf then issue the following command:     service procps start   It may also help to check and increase the current p