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Hello COBOL Community! Last week, we brought together over 50 passionate COBOL enthusiasts right next to the iconic London Eye, and what a day it was! The event was packed with learning, experience exchange, and networking. While every modernization journey is unique, many of you face similar challenges. That's why being part of a community matters. It gives us a chance to learn from each other, find inspiration, and grow together. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed with insightful questions, ideas, and feedback. You made the day truly special. Here's a quick look at the key topics we explored: Rocket COBOL: Edge of TomorrowWe discussed COBOL's continued relevance and evolution, highlighting how modern tools including AI are expanding its capabilities and integration potential. How to Drive New Business Value with New Features in Rocket Visual COBOL and Rocket COBOL Analyzer:A showcase of the latest enhancements and functionalities across our product

COBOL remains a cornerstone of global business operations powering 70% of the world's business transaction processing across industries such as banking, insurance, travel, retail, and government. However, running COBOL that has not been modernized – combined with outdated engineering tools and practices – can slow innovation, increase operational risk, and expose systems to today's security threats. Organizations with COBOL at their core can no longer afford to operate on outdated applications and systems or take unnecessary, expensive risks with application rewrite projects.  However, for many people, COBOL's reputation is clouded by a number of persistent myths and misunderstandings – even those familiar with COBOL may still judge it based on how it looked and operated over 30 years ago. Join us for a LinkedIn Live event on COBOL modernization without myths and outdated perception. Learn why COBOL remains vital to global businesses and how Rocket Software products enable modernizatio

Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone who joined us for your activity and questions. To those who couldn't make please feel free to watch it on demand.   The recording of the COBOL x GenAI Insights: Meet Rocket® Visual COBOL® 11.0 webinar is available. You can watch the recording anytime and share it with your team.   Some useful materials: Webinar recording Webinar deck Rocket Visual COBOL 11.0 Documentation Supported platforms Rocket Enterprise Suite 11.0 Webinar Recording for IBM Z Application Modernization COBOL in 1 Day Course Thank you to everyone who actively participated in the quiz as well! Five winners will receive gifts from Rocket Software. The team will contact you individually: Andrew B. Joel F. Brian C. AJ A. Simon S. Please look forward to our next event: LinkedIn Live Event: COBOL Modernization Without the Myths Sep 30, 11 a.m. ET   Join us for the event on COBOL modernization: Without myths and outdated perceptions. Learn why COBOL remains vital to global businesses

Hi everyone!   Tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET / 4 p.m. CET, we're bringing you the biggest Rocket Visual COBOL update of the year -- with GenAI Insights, new supported platforms, and an exclusive roadmap preview! We'll also be answering your questions about COBOL modernization, so make sure to join us.    Sign up now so you don't miss it: COBOL x GenAI Insights: Meet Rocket® Visual COBOL® 11.0 | Rocket Software   Can't join us live? No problem, we'll send you the webinar recording afterward.   See you tomorrow------------------------------Sava KovalenkoPMMRocket Software Forum Member------------------------------

Hi team, My existing visual cobol is working oracle, i am looking for compatiblity report from cobol analyzer if i connect with postgres database. will it cobol analyzer will provide such report? #VisualCOBOL

Hello, I was not able to figure out the issue , when im trying to integrate microfocus dlls and COBOL files to webapi c#  endpoint call. The below exception is throwing when executing cobol business logic.It's not working in webapi/wcf calls.It's executed only in winforms application.Could you please do help on this issue.Are these cobol dll integration work in web development?  

January 24, 2024 8:00 am PT | 11:00 am ET | 17:00 CET Speakers: OpenText Vice President COBOL Susan Drennan, and Senior Solutions Engineer Jim Baum  Register now If mainframe and COBOL are at the heart of your operations, breaking the bounds of mainframe architecture to scale and innovate at speed can seem daunting. Fortunately, you can accelerate your digital transformation journey while staying agile in today’s fast-paced multi-cloud world.  Join our OpenText experts for this webinar—the first in a series of regular, monthly sessions focusing on COBOL and dedicated to the community of COBOL professionals—as they discuss how you can build on the proven IT investments you rely on every day to:   Deliver continuous value while managing a fast-paced and ever-changing IT landscape.   Innovate faster, with lower risk, by transforming your core business applications, processes, and infrastructure—from mainframe to cloud.  Say goodbye to ugl

 I am trying to get free access to enterprise COBOL to try it out (it's features like flowchart, program control flow, etc.). I applied for it and got license but I am not able to install it (it downloads a no-readme file). Can someone help me with it? I have a Mac and if Enterpris COBOL can't be installed in it, is it possible to get Azure cloud access or something where I can use a browser to try out its features.I am really interested in Visual COBOL and COBOL analyzer products and am looking for a long term collaboration with MicroFocus but want to give out initial trials to actually try out the contents of the YouTube training videos.

Hi, we have moved the product cobol analyzer from a windows server to another. is it possible move the license from one to other. ? We have revoke the license inthe old server but when we try introduce it in the new we get an error.   If this is not possible, how can we obtain a correct license?

Hello Community, I am currently using Acucobol version 9.2.5 in my organisation. Can anyone let me know if there are any security issues in the version 9.2.5 due to which i should consider upgrading AcuCobol version 9.2.5 to the latest ? Also, if anyone knows about any security issues in acuthin do let me know. Thanks !#AcuCobol

Hello, I try to use this criterion to find all fields used in SQL statements, but it does not work very well for me. here are the results as you can see the field named "sql-salidaendpoint" and used in a SELECT is in the results but the other filed named "sql-num-dias" which is also used in another SELECT is not in the results Why the fileds "sql-num-dias" does not appears in the results?#CobolAnalyzer#cobolanalyzer

Hello, What is this error about? And how can I fix it?

Hi, We are working on Migration of Mainframe to Java and planning to use MicroFocus Cobol Analyzer. Application involves Telon code so wanted to check if MF Cobol Analyzer will also work on Telon code or we need to find an alternate? Thanks in Advance for your response.

Hi, in version 4.0 of CA constructor types are in a list and the documentation related to an option appears when the option is selected But in version 8.0 this documentacion don´t appears because constructor types are in a combo. How can we see this documentacion or help now?

Hi, we have update from CA 4 to CA 8 and and we have a problem that in version 4 don´t happens We works with BRP and verification process stops once the verifications are finished,but the process don´t dead.  If we execute the  PowerShell script on cmd, the same thing happens, we must click "Close" on the Queue Processor window to continue. We need that process dead completly when we wors in BRP. We have another question, Why don´t  we see this options? 1. Click Options > Workspace Options. 2. Click Verification > Parallel Verification tab. 3. Select either    • Run Parallel Verification in the online tool    • Run Parallel Verification in BRP 4. Adjust the Minimum Queue Processors to improve performance when using an optimized number of CPU cores.

Hello, we are working with version 4.0 of CA and we want to update to version 8.0 of CA:1 - Is it possible to do it without installing the previous versions? 2 - Would it be necessary to completely uninstall the product and install it again with the correct version?

HI,  I am evaluating whether or not to use cobol Analyzer and the first doubt i have is that is it possible to change the code analysis criteria? If I want to incorporate a new criteria to be analyzed in my code (eg not admitting more than 3 nested If), where should I put it? thanks#CobolAnalyzer

Within CA (Cobol Analyzer) Web it is possible to see the source code that has been loaded into a workspace. Is it possible restrict access to CA Web so that a user needs to be authenticated before using CA Web? It is possible to do this by enabling security with TomCat Web server and it will authenticate the user before allowing the user access to CA Web. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007405#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

I have to reinstall Visual Cobol for Eclipse in other computer because i have some trouble with the requerimients. So when i reinstall on my others PC i couldn´t insert my autorization code because i think that the code is asociate to my first installation.

In certain situations, CA (Cobol Analyzer) will fail and produce an error message. As directed by the Micro Focus team, more information about the error may be required and this may require CA logging be enabled. Once the log file has been created it can be added to the case for further investigation by Micro Focus. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006984#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

I hope I'm in a good sub for this... I'm trying to find a static code analyzer for visual cobol that can scan against PCI security regulations. Has anyone run into this? The best option I've found so far would be Yasca, but I would have to define my own rule-set and I just don't know enough about cobol or PCI to do that. https://nox.tips/

As often happens with Cobol systems, we have developers with only a few years of experience working on a codebase almost as old as they are. They are developing with Microfocus NetExpress and there's little desire to switch IDEs, although Eclipse might be an option. I'm keen to introduce automated unit testing to grow and expand the legacy code coverage, reduce risks after changes and shorten the feedback loop after commits. I know the options are limited, and some are simpler to adopt than others. Is anyone using Microfocus NetExpress to develop Cobol doing any automated unit testing? If so, what tools are you using? Ideally, I'm after recommendations from your own personal experience.#cobolanalyzer#MicroFocusCOBOL#CobolAnalyzer

I got problem when I run the microfocus cobol module like CBLRTSM.DLL error..this is for dynamic binding error. I am using cobol patch version 5 for compile the module . But when I run module I got the dynamic binding error

Hello All, I'm working on a new project with Micro Focus Cobol! Here is what I have: TWOS is a Time and Work Order Management System developed by Ford. It is written in Micro Focus Cobol and runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP4. This is what I need: 1. Upgrade the OS to SLES 15 SP1 2. Upgrade the application to the latest version of Micro Focus Cobol 3. Migrate the application from 32 bit to 64 bit This is what I know: Micro Focus 1. Visual COBOL installs fully only on 64-bit Windows platforms. On 32-bit Windows, the setup file does not install some of the components. Visual COBOL enables you to produce both 64-bit and 32-bit applications on 64-bit operating systems. 2. As 64-bit architecture is becoming increasingly prevalent, the consideration of moving towards producing 64-bit applications is also increasing. Many of the major operating system vendors now default to 64-bit support, and whilst still supporting the running of 32-bit applications, have sign

Hello All, I'm working on a new project with Micro Focus Cobol that needs to analyze (845 Cobol programs, 2.25 LOC). I also need to analyze dependencies outside of the Cobol code, including batch jobs, bash shell scripts and utility programs.  What would be the best tool to get this done? Thanks for your help! Regards, Keith#codeanalysis#CobolAnalyzer#COBOL#MicroFocusCOBOL#analysis