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Does the acuthin "ping", (acuthin -p [servername]) support a silent mode? Basically to run the command and return the data that is normally displayed in the display message box without the popup. #Acuthin#ping

I am creating a gateway program to be used in XBIS that will drive a new process we are developing.  Our .net team requested that I update all '-' in variable names to "_".  As I attempted to do this in AcuBench the Working Storage screen would not accept "_" and would automatically convert them back to a "-".  Does anyone know why this is happening?  An Example variable name is: 'IP-VS-Message'...I had hoped to make that 'IP_VS_Message'.  The only option that I could use was to remove the '-' completely.  This made the final variable name: 'IPVSMessage' which it took but is a bit confusing.   Thanks

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 02 May 2012]I am getting the above error when I try to reference System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement. The IDE allows me to add the reference and intellisense pops up like it knows it's there but then it gives me an error saying it is an unknown class. What am I doing wrong?Alternatively, I have created a C# method to validate user credentials using the DirectoryServices.AccountManagement and would like to call the method from Managed COBOL but have not found any examples of how to do this. Could you provide me with one?Thanks!!

In my COBOL program I would construct a DOS command like "copy EDITFILE.txt EDITFILE-Finance.txt" Question:  how can I cause the COBOL program to actually issue that command?#DOSBatch#COBOL

How can I access an SQL table located on another server/instance with an SQL login user/password? With the assignment in the configuration file, such asMPStamm Server. Demo. VFinanz. MPStammit works. But how can I add user and password to the linkage with server/Instance?#Acu4GL

I have downloaded Visual Cobol for Visual Studio 2013 yesterday. The activation failed with error message "No license for this feature is available". I'm using Serial Number 600000722690 and License Key DF6CF8070A6BBDD6 witch i have received in the link. May i ask for some help?

One of my clients unfortunately uses table names with German "umlaute" in his MS-SQL database.Acusql resolves the table name select * from dbo.süden with select * from dbo.sden. Is there a way to prevent this?

Attention Representatives or Users,     I currently have the RM/COBOL Version 7.0 and I can't get Codewatch to display the source code screen when I get the workspace configured and click the 'Run' Option.  It displays the breakpoint screen and the runtime debug screen, but not the screen where the source code is.  I want to be able to pull up the screen with the source code highlighted during execution of the runtime in Codewatch and I'm unable to do so.  It also doesn't show the source code (.cbl) in the "Programs" or "Files" window on the left side of the screen as well. If anyone can help me I would appreciate it greatly.   Jack Stockman

I am experiencing the following problem : Hi Everyone,  I'm reposting George's issue, since I'm having the same problem.  I downloaded and installed Visual Cobol PE for Visual Studio 2017, but I can't activate it.When I select "I want to activate the free product" with my e-mail address (rlr8b4@mail.umsl.edu), I am receiving the following message :"The activation of Micro Focus Visual Cobol personal edition failed. This was because we didn't recognize the email address you endered as having been previously registered with us.". But, when I am visiting the registration page, I couldn't see or find any registration procedure. So, I used the MANUAL activation process, using the "Send Email/Display Fields" sequence and, I sent an email according to the instructions.However, the answer I received was the following :   "The following error occurred during the authorization processMG0106: Unable to authorize the re

Good afternoon.   I am the IT Admin for a hospital in Maine. Two years ago we retired our Electronic Medical Records system and opted into a new Web based one. The older system was called "Hi-Tech" and RM/COBOL was a component we had to install on each PC prior to accessing the database. That's the extent of my knowledge on COBOL. I literally have no idea what COBOL does other than it needed to be installed first and THEN we could get into our database (well, that and I think I've heard rumors that COBOL has been around forever and 'just works'). We are now on Windows 10 (we were on XP and W7 Pro) and we are trying to test access to the old EMR system. Here is what I know so far... The company who built & provided service for the old EMR system is out of business (2 years now). The version of RM/COBOL that they provided us (and that we still have on file) will not work with Windows 10   What I think I need... A version of COBOL that will install on W10 and allow us

 Attention Community,         I'm having trouble running the runpan2.cob (RM/Panels) program.  When I run the runpan2 program, I get the following message:         "COBOL data reference error 101 at line 00056 in (C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\RMCOBOL\\RUNPAN2.COB)..."         I'd like to know what I need to do in order to fix this.   Jack Stockman

Hi all, All of the sudden, acubench hangs when auto code completion is triggered. When writing code and typing "START", after 6-7 seconds acubench auto completes the line with "START MY_FILE". Then, acubench hangs and needs to be "killed" by the task manager. In order to make acubench work, we disabled the feature from tools > options > code editor > code insight. We tested it with various projects located in different disk folders, we faced the same behaviour. Thanks in advance.

is it possible to display an image  (.bmp .jpg...) when running Liant RM/COBOL for unix/linux .  "C$Bitmap" works using pc runtime but how about the unix/linux runtimes.  Any 3rd party software available?  Thanks!!#COBOL#linuxcobol#RMCOBOL

We're trying to run some bulk update commands that are hitting tables with 50 million or so rows. The problem is after a few minutes, we get "***** ERROR: VISION: Read timeout", even though we've set all the timeouts to zero in the various config files - which should prevent any timeouts. Is there are hard coded upper limit for connection times? Is there something about the configuration of timeouts I am perhaps missing? This has happened when using the xdbc query tool and when using isql.#AcuXDBC#SQL

Hello, i'm trying to write a C dll that called in a Cobol program returns data in a memory section allocated with C malloc(). The problem is when i'm trying to free that memory in Cobol with a m$free it seems doesn't work. My question is: m$free work only with memory allocated with m$alloc? There is a way to free in Cobol a memory section allocated with C malloc()? There is a way to allocate in C a memory section using the Cobol m$alloc?#c#DLL#C#mfree#malloc#AcuCobol

This is a strange one.  Without any changes that we know of except booting our server all animator sessions run right through without stopping for breaks.  We have small scripts that set COBSW A and it just works and now it just stopped?   Is it possible that the Cobol License deamons need to be restated?  I can't find any eorror messages associated with these.  Any suggestions appreciated.   root 26730 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:12 /var/microfocuslicensing/bin/lservroot 26738 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:01:23 /var/microfocuslicensing/bin/mfcesd

Hi, is it possible to show always the full path of an copy in the list file. What we want to see is the directory where the copy was found. We see  the path in the page heading of the list file. But if the copy is too small to be on two pages, there is no way to see the directory. Here an example to make it more clearly. We are able to see the path of the copy SDA421 but not for SDA422.   *  116     COPY SDA421.                                                                                          116^L^M* Micro

When Automatic is selected: MG0012 Wrong ProductWhen Manual is selected: MG0106: Unable to authorize the request.Note that this is a different error from the other MG0106 error according to Chris Glazier. The solution is not to simply Email him. Hi Edward,   Please post this question directly on the Community Site so others can see it and respond as well. The previous problem with license authorization that was linked with my name has been fixed. Yours seems to be a different problem.   Thanks   Regards, Chris Glazier

Hello, this is a high level question (general). I was hoping that someone here would know if AcuCOBOL 8.1.2 has some sort of maintenance mode, where you can put the tables in a temp state while running backups on the database? Thank you for your time.

 I've got a native CLEAN.cbl that uses a copybook named COMPUTATION.cpy.  It's not working.  The code in COMPUTATION.cpy isn't recognizing variables and procedures contained in CLEAN.cbl. In the Solution Explorer, COMPUTATION.cpy is flagged with a X   See attached screen shot. Wazzup?#COBOL

SIR MFA continue as a MF Product or has another name? Enterprise Test Server has another name..?? Enterprise Developer (old MFE) has another name??? I need a QA Environment and I want   yo   know the right mames of the MF products. Many Thanks in advanced PJM

I run the following program in COBOL_CHARACTER_SET 950 environment is OK but in COBOL_CHARACTER_SET UTF-8 return error 48,02.          identification division.       program-id. TESTPDF.       ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.       CONFIGURATION SECTION.       SPECIAL-NAMES.       input-output section.       file-control.           select file-output           ASSIGN TO ws-printer           organization is LINE SEQUENTIAL           FILE STATUS IS FILE-STATUS.           data division.       file section.  &

I want to create a big window and then have the user create another window inside of the original window. Will AcuCobol allow this process? The user will then create controls on the created window. Thanks, David

WYSIWYG editing tool for end users.

 I have a program Customer Maintenance, in the program I have set a flag to call my javascript to open a new window to my web service (PRTSERVICE). // Load WSDL  var wsdUrl = urlPrefix "PRTSERVICE.wsdl"; var xmlHttp = SOAPClient._getXmlHttp(); xmlHttp.open("GET", wsdlUrl, true): xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {    If (xmlHttp.readystate == 4){       SOAPClient_cacheWsdl[soapUrl] = xmlHttp.responseXML;       var hostname = location.hostname;       soap - new SOAPClientParameters()*;       soap.add("logon-user-name", $("#bis-userid).val());      soap.add("logon-host", hostName);      SOAPClient.invoke(soapUrl, "logonuser", soap, true, function (r, xml){       var resp = r["logon-user-result"];        if (resp!= "0"){        var v = xml.getElementsByTagName("faultstring");        var str = "Unabl