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we are looking for options to call a non cobol api's from native cobol programs :: using visual cobol with eclipse#VisualCOBOL#Eclipse#visualcobolruntimeswitchlinking#APICALLNONCOBOLAPIS

I have a project that I have converted from Net Express into Visual Cobol with DS screens. Everything works great in the development environment, but when I deploy at a clients site with cobol server, I get a error load error on DSGRUN.  Noticed it is not in the Cobol Server BIN folder.  Am I missing an install step for COBOL server?

I recently installed Visual Studio 2017 and Microfocus Enterprise Developer 3.0. When debugging our application, which is a managed application (mixture of C# and Cobol compiled for .NET), I can't see the values of Cobol data items. The error message I get is: error CS0103: The name 'AFD2' does not exist in the current context. To be clear, the results of the run are 100% correct, so it's seems to be a debugging issue exclusively. I suspect that I have a wrong setting somewhere. Kind regards, Mark de Vos

Problem: After installation, when opening any workspace you receive the following error. "TSUIN0126 At least one exception occurred during the initialization of the AWM meta model. See error log for more information." Resolution: This error can be caused by a bug in the version of Eclipse that is delivered with Visual COBOL 3.0, which may not recognize Windows Server 2016 as a valid operating system. This can be resolved by manually specifying an Operating System version that Eclipse will recognize, following these steps: 1) Open "C:\\Users\\Public\\Micro Focus\\Visual COBOL\\eclipse\\eclipse.ini" 2) Add the following to the bottom of the file -Dos.name=Windows Server 2015 R2  3) Save the file and then reload Eclipse Note: This problem does not occur in Visual COBOL for Eclipse 4.0.#VisualCOBOL

HI All We are using Acu4gl v9.3.2 A large client has a great number of Users logging in and we had instance of the Aculocks table becoming locked It was so bad we had to revert back to v9.2.1   We have a stored procedure that I have a suspicion may have had a hand in.   sp_AcuRemoveUnusedLocks_1   Not sure what info is relevant

When I use AGS-CREATE-CLIENT, it takes an eternity to time out if it cannot make a connection (by which time users have broken-out). Is there any way to control this? (The manual states that "The length of time is dependent on the underlying socket layer".)

I have a user that is receiving the above error when attempting to send a letter using mail-merge. Error: lcsltr Run-time error '4605'; The OpenHeaderSource2000 method or property is not available because this command is not available for reading.   I have attempted to recreate the error but have been unsuccessful.  Can anyone help me determine the problem/solution? I appreciate your assistance.

Problem: How to include a comment in cobol.dir file ? You can include a comment in the file by placing an ampersand '&' in column 1 followed by a space. If you omit the space the comment is treated as a directive, and the syntax check on that file fails. It is a same way for the file that is defined with the Compiler directives DIRECTIVES or USE . Resolution: You include a comment in the file by placing an ampersand '&' in column 1 followed by a space. If you omit the space the comment is treated as a directive, and the syntax check on that file fails. It is a same way for the file that is defined with the Compiler directives DIRECTIVES or USE . Old KB# 4523

We are trying to implement a complex web application that has access to our legacy ISAM GEN.4 and 5 data files via AcuXDBC. One of the common uses of the app is searching and paging through results. We thought AcuXDBC would be perfect for this, however it seems that support for paging is somewhat broken. There are two issues we have with this: (1) SKIP and TOP are undocumented, yet exist and work. (2) SKIP doesn't appear to be at all performant, appearing to internally do a full table scan and simply omit the skipped results. Am I missing something here? Should this be working better, or is it undocumented because it doesn't work correctly?#AcuXDBC#SQL

I am new to Windows forms.  Using the WinFormBook sample code provided by MicroFocus everything works fine.  I am attempting to determine how to pass back a code to the legacy program to indicate a write the data.  I have added a second button to add.  I have copied the button1 read section and changed to add: set my-book to type BookWrapper.Book::Add(input-string) When I build the file, I get the error in the subject line.  How do I resolve this issue? 

We have a Cobol 5.1 Menu system that calls one of 1,000’s of application gnt programs depending on option chosen. We want to create a graphical menu system in Visual Cobol that can call the existing Gnt applications.   I have created a simple test program that accepts a folder name and a program name then calls the requested program. The test program works fine until I call the test gnt program. The test program was compiled using visual Cobol command line compile to produce the GNT application.   The call results in the error: FAILMicroFocus.COBOL.COBOLRuntimeException: 174     Imported file not found (Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\\Silverlink\\v3.9\\wintne\\lib\\restest.gnt' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest.) ---> System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\\Silverlink\\v3.9\\wintne\\lib\\restest.gnt' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to

in acucobol Primary Key prhead-key 9(10)   move 0 to prhead-key  start file not < prhead-key  works when accessing vision file translates 0 to 0000000000 (I believe) and finds all records     Oracle Table   move 0 to prhead-key   returns a status = 23  because it interprets key as 0sssssssss where s = a space Also empty 'temporary' files return a '92' error when read   Is there a configuration variable to handle these little quirks?    Thank you

Does anyone know what the "Loc 513" error means?Medeo

I am using ZetPDF SDK number of time. It is too easy to develop PDF functionality using this SDK. You can download the SDK from here. (ZetPDF.com - PDF library for .NET, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Mono, WPF, Silverlight)#generate#PDFCreator#pdf

The demo program delivered together with Netexpress 5.1 “Micro Focus\\Net Express 5.1\\Examples\\Dialog System\\CLASSLIBRARY\\Pictures\\Images.App”  works pretty well and shows immediately after  SCREENSET-INITIALIZED the previously defined .JPG .GIF or .BMP image.   After adding to the program             MOVE “next-image.jpg” TO IO-Text-Buffer             MOVE "SET-PICTURE" TO Call-Function             SET OBJECT-REFERENCE-x TO IMAGE-REF             CALL "IMAGECTL" USING  DS-Control-Block.   Data-Block            PERFORM Call-Dialog-System I can show one image after another. But due to the fact that at the beginning of the program I don&rsqu

 Hi, I installed new virtual PC for Visual Cobol testing - Windows 10 Professional, Visual Studio 2017 Professional, Visual Cobol 4.0 trial 30 day. I am not able to load any solutions from Sample Micro Focus directory (e.g. WinHello.sln). Visual Studio loading solution, but does not finish the operation and freezes. I have to use Task Manager for kill it. I am not even able to create a new project based on a cobol. (creating solutions ..... and nothing happens). What is wrong? Can you help me? Regards Petr MFSupportInfo_5F00_Log_5F00_DESKTOP_2D00_U1M9VSR_5F00_2018_2D00_06_2D00_25_5F00_02_2D00_23_2D00_15.xml

Hi! I just installed Visual COBOL for Personal Use, and I cannot create a new project or open an existing one.  It just says "preparing project" and doesn't do anything else. I have to ctrl alt delete and run task manager to get the program to stop.   I am currently using Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition version 15.7.4 & Visual COBOL 4.0 version Version 4.0.00243 I had a real bugger of a time trying to get this to install.  Once the Visual COBOL was installed, the only way I could get it to show up in visual studio is by following the directions on this web page: https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/visual-cobol/VC30/VS2017/GUID-391926CC-0991-4E0F-B0F3-9249B0FDB691.html   Anyone know what can be causing the Visual COBOL not to work?  I've already tried uninstalling and re-installing both the Visual Studio and the Visual COBOL, and I am still getting the same issue.#Installation#VisualCOBOL

 It seems to lock up the called screen when using "96" until I exit out of that called program. Tried using C$SYSTEM XXXXX FLAGS. (Flags has a value of 1) Tried using C$SYSTEM XXXXX 1. Tried using C$SYSTEM XXXXX CSYS-ASYNC. None of these work when trying to use C$SYSTEM (Seems to work like a ENTER key)What am I doing wrong?

We setup a new system which is running Extend v10.2 on Windows 2012 R2 and connect to SQL Server 2014 by Acu4GL. However, it returns "[DBNETLIB]: SSL Security error" when opening table in database server. After checking, it may relate to the SQL Server has enabled TLS 1.2. So I would like to know does Acu4GL v10.2 support TLS 1.2? If it is support, is there any configuration variable to make it work? Regards,   Bobby#TLS1.2#Acu4GL

Trouble with C$SYSTEM Here is a C$system failure screen along with the actual string I am using. (AX-QUE) Works fine in other programs. Any idea?  

Problem: Running a native COBOL application over the network with COBOL Server 4.0 or 5.0 works fine the first time. Any subsequent runs fail with the following: Execution error : file ''error code: 244, pc=0, call=1, seg=0244 Licensing initialization error Resolution: This issue is resolved in release 5.0 Patch Update 9 and higher. The workaround is to add the following entry in the run-time launch configuration (.mfcfg) file: SETENV MFCES_INIT_LOCATION=\\\\ServerName\\MicroFocusSrv\\Bin\\ces.ini where Servername is the name or IP address of the server and MicroFocusSrv is the network share name on the COBOL Server 4.0 or 5.0 installation folder.

I'm running into an issue with a combo box and the mouse scroll wheel. Even if another field on the screen is currently selected, the user moving the mouse scroll wheel while the cursor is over a combo box, its value will change and I haven't been able to keep it from happening. I thought that an Event/Exception "Other" procedure might catch the prev/next-wheel events documented for a paged list but those don't seem to be raised and I don't see a W$MOUSE option for it either.  Was wondering if anyone has run into this before or if there is a work around I'm not thinking of?   Thanks,#mouse#wheel

Trying to change from printing in Unix to printing in Windows.  Using BIS and XML so can not use dialog boxes as the XML suppresses them.  Does anyone know how to assign the windows printer through the cobol program?#wearetryingtoprintdirectlyfromtheBISserviceprogram.

Hi All, I need your help again guys i have a indexed file here Called "CalledProgs", this file stored Program names now i am required to write a program that will loop through all these program names and search for program names stored in each.  Don't be confused these program names also contained different program names stored, i have written a code here below which i used to retrieve these names from an input file called Mainmenu.cbl. now i am required to continue with this code by means of reading this indexed file with was an output file when i was calling for the program names.  now i am tasked to read from each program name the program names written on it and Add to the same output file "CalledProgs". i hope its clear, below is the program i used to retrieve these called program names that are in the output file.     PROCEDURE DIVISION. *===================* *---------------------------------------------------------------- DECLARATIVE

We currently have clients running an RM Cobol runtime (ver 12.05) and clients running BIS (ver 12.01).  Processing speeds vary greatly between the two when running reports and long processes.  Our end-of-day processing on larger clients can take up to 15 mins in the BIS environment but the same programs executed thru the RM Cobol runtime can take up to 2 hours.  Does anyone know why this happens and what, if anything, we can do to speed up processing in the runtime environment?#RMCobol#BIS