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Dear Friends,   I am using eclipse (Enterprise Developer 3.0 ) while developing one code I am getting the following errors. Please suggest.    1. COBCH0008S Unknown copybook DCLGEN specified: When I am including DCLGEN in my Code.  2. COBCH0002S Undefined ECM error. Inform Technical Support. Error code 12.   Thank you Pandat.

Dear Sirs; Where I find a Script  to SET the Environment  after installation on Red Hat ...??? Many thanks in advance PJM

Code looks like below.        01  T1-DS-FDBK-TBL.           05  T1-DS-FDBK-ENTRY  OCCURS  999 TIMES                                     ASCENDING KEY IS T1-DS-FDBK-UNIT                                     INDEXED BY T1-NDX.               10  T1-DS-FDBK-UNIT         PIC X(4).               10  T1-DS-FDBK-RPTIND       PI

At the end of installing Visual COBOL, I got the error code: 0x8013153b To top it off, COBOL does not appear in Visual Studio for me. I was given a code for the authorization tool that comes with Visual COBOL and tried using that but it didn't seem to fix anything.#VisualCOBOL#error

Does anyone have experience with the connection of extend and MS-Docuware via .NET?I would like to physically download documents from Docuware.With netdefgen I do not really get on with it because generating the copy modules produces errors.And of course I have no experience with .NET.

Hi can I install the Visual Cobol\\Cobol Server product on the Red Hat Openshift platform? the licenses is the same as a normal red hat installation? thanks bye

The latest snag in our COBOL <--> Excel saga. All of a sudden, yesterday, I couldn’t execute RAW-STAFFCOMP.cbl.  Error:        Execution error : file 'RAW-STAFFCOMP'     error code: 240, pc=0, call=1, seg=0     240     Object reference not valid   The error was at this statement:  invoke WorkSheet "finalize" returning WorkSheet.   Thinking I might have somehow clobbered the program, I compiled an earlier version which had previously executed perfectly.  Exactly the same error occurred.   Is there something I can tweak, maybe in the Project Properties?  Or maybe I need to re-install Visual COBOL?

We are currently a Micro Focus 6.0 Sp2 SEE user.  We use it for development and prod.  We have a new Cobol application that the vendor requires Visual Cobol 2.3 Update 1.  We are being asked to put it on the same server as the current development and production versions.  How can this be accomplished?  What are the ramifications of different levels of support being required by the OS other  products and the possibility that there may be issues with backward compatibility with our current release.

During execution of the process, using Net Express we are getting a "file not found" error.  It occurs when calling a DLL from a DLL.  Calling the same DLL from an EXE is working fine.  While this code has worked fine for years, I had to rebuild the process, and this error is the result.  I'm questioning the way the DLL is being called.  Has anyone had experience with this that might help?

We are moving from Solaris to Suse Linux and for the same I am trying to create new executable. Using visual cobol for eclipse when I created the executable and ran the programs in CMO (Solaris) everything works fine. But when I create executable and run one of the program in FMO (Suse Linux) the script fails giving the below error.   Execution Error : file 'sitefc30' error code: 107, pc=0, call=1, seg=0 107   Operation not implemented in this Run-Time System   I have never come across this error. Below is the screenshot of the error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.            

We're now successfully using Visual COBOL to read data from Excel, which is a victory.  But we've got a problem.  Here's relevant program code:           working-storage section.           01 excel-contents PIC X(13).           01 excel-contents-num redefines excel-contents PIC S9(12).           01 W-CELL-VALUE   PIC S9(12).           procedure division.           invoke Cell "getValue" returning excel-contents.           MOVE excel-contents-num TO W-CELL-VALUE. The problem:  example -- the Excel cell contains the 15 W-CELL-VALUE should be "000000000015" instead, we're getting       "15          " We could fix this with some kind of character-handling, but before we try that, is there something simple that we're

This article explains how to use the TerminateProcess to stop a process with no cleanup. Problem: What can you do if an application needs to exit immediately with no cleanup in order to prevent some issues at process closedown in third party components? Resolution: You can use the TerminateProcess to stop a process with no cleanup. However this means that the COBOL runtime will not be able to perform any cleanup. If you issue TerminateProcess on a COBOL process then it could lead to issues such as corrupt files as normal clean up is not performed. Note: This code should only be used with care. Attached is an example of this API being called from COBOL. Incident Number: 2267166 Old KB# 14572

The MicroFocus documentation in https://supportline.microfocus.com/documentation/books/oc41books/fhform.htm, in section 3.1.1.1, says that line sequential files "correspond to simple text files as produced by the standard editor provided with your operating system". I've created a line-sequential file whose records are PIC S9(12) OCCURS 1600.  When I look at the output in Notepad, I see that the number -999999999999 appears to be stored as 99999999999y. Do I need to change my organization from "line sequential" to "sequential", or can a program reading that line-sequential file actually convert the 99999999999y back to -999999999999 ???#VisualCOBOL

 Where can I find a example how to use this?   We have a unix/oracle environment and we want to use visual cobol in visual studio to develop the cobol source and compile/test/debug it.  The production runs on solaris

how can I suppress empty tags?  #XML#VisualCOBOL

 Using RM/Cobol with the WOW Extension Designer version 10.01 and InstantSQL I am attempt to read data from a SQL Server 2012 database. At times, but not in all cases I receive the following error: “Connection is busy with results for another hstmt”. According to another response, this error was fixed in release 9.1.2.1 of the Extend Software however we do not use Extend.#SQLserver#RMCOBOL#InstantSQL

Hello,I have three total coop terms in my comp sci program. I finished my first one at a health sciences research institute, secured my second one at the same place, but I think I want to try something different for my last. One of the big five Canadian banks is a major employer of coop students from my school, so I was thinking that if I learned COBOL on my own, it would help me stand out from the pack (I'm not too worried about finding employment, I have plenty of paid programming experience for a student, and my grades are excellent. Just want something that makes me unique). COBOL jobs must be pretty rare, but because the only people who know it are greybeards, and they must all be nearing retirement, it sounds like a lucrative niche to get into.What would a typical dev environment look like for programming in COBOL? My machine runs Linux primarily (Ubuntu-based), but I can boot into Windows if need be.Thanks I didn't find the right solution from the internet. References:ar

Any one here remember an editor written in COBOL called AcuEdit?  Looking for either a compiled version that will run with AcuCobol ver. 6.0 or the source code for it.  We have the compiled version 1.0 which ran using a version 2.4.3 runtime but will not on a version 6.0 runtime and cannot figure out why it keeps throwing an error on startup.  The source code would be a great aid in diagnosing the problem.

From within my native Visual COBOL code, I want to specify the name of a folder (e.g., "c:\\surveys\\finance\\2018") and then populate a working storage table with as many as 500 names of *.xlsx files in that folder.   All the filenames will be 13 characters in length: nnnnnnnn.xlsx 01  SURVEY-FILE-TABLE.       05  SURVEY-FILE   PIC X(13) OCCURS 500. I've been studying available documentation on CBL_DIR_SCAN_START, CBL_DIR_SCAN_READ, and CBL_DIR_SCAN_END -- but it's all Greek to me.  Are those even the routines that I will need?   And are there any examples out there that actually show getting a list of filenames in a given folder? 

Hello,I used to use zeus on my old laptop over a year ago. Now i have a new laptop with windows 10, and I want to download and re-install zeus for my cobol programs, how can I do it?Thanks I didn't find the right solution from the internet. References:www.zeusedit.com/.../viewtopic.php=3&t=7601 Creative animation studio

Is there any chance to use C/S Binding in the Visual Cobol 3.0? There are no such modules as mfclient and mfserver. Thank you for any answer. Petr#VisualCOBOL#CSbinding

Does anyone if Acuxdbc has a tracing capabilities like wrun32 runtime, we area getting an error (As soon as he enters a price and hits enter he gets an error that a null value isn’t allow for that field) and have no idea which field is in question, by the way it works fine in 9.1?#AcuXDBC

I would like to validate if you can help me with an error that is presented to us trying to consult a Micro Focus IDX4 file through Relativity MF, these files are currently managed by File Share, the error occurs when the file is blocked by File Share.   ---------------------------Relativity® Designer---------------------------SQLState: S1000 Msg: [Micro Focus][Relativity][Client][SimbaLNA][Micro Focus][Relativity MF Server][CRDM]File lock violation. NativeErr: -1025 SQLState: S1000 Msg: [Micro Focus][Relativity][SimbaLNA][Micro Focus][Relativity MF Server]Unable to open table: PEAF.---------------------------Aceptar ---------------------------   I appreciate your help in solving this error.

My question is about compatibility of Server express cobol application with OAC new functionality with Oracle Database 12c  Our applications use the Oracle Pro*COBOL precompiler (rtsora) (in conjunction with the cobsql) to access Oracle DB on a remote server OAC is provided by Oracle and  we need to know if it is compatible with our way of doing connexion to Oracle DB ? I am prepared to ask Oracle but first I would like your answer , thanks

Hi, I have been struggling with Visual COBOL installation. I have uninstalled and reinstalled VS and the Micro Focus VS for COBOL several times. I have contacted the support desk and the licensing is fine. I have reached out to my school's discussion group on the problems that other students experienced and tried everything they found to work. I've restarted many times. I don't get error messages. It's just not there. If anyone has any idea of how to help me it would be appreciated. The Micro Focus folder in my start menu shows that the Visual Studio for COBOL isn't there. And COBOL is not a selection in the regular Visual Studio either.  Thanks for the help,   Traci