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Problem: The variable browser search report does not show the value within the MOVE of a constant into a num field if it has a " " sign in front of it, when using Simulated Text display mode. if statement has the following: MOVE 12345678 to NUM-FIELD  ==> variable browser will show MOVE 12345678 to NUM-FIELD if the statement has the following: MOVE 123456789 to NUM-FIELD ==> variable browser will show MOVE to NUM-FIELD Resolution: In order to see the actual text of these move statements, it's best to change the User Display mode to REAL TEXT so that the full MOVE statement is shown in the browser results. Old KB# 1199#EnterpriseAnalyzer#SupportTip

Problem: In the docs about compression functions, but there is not a lot about what it would do for Revolve projects. is compression used for only what? saving space? do projects work slower or faster when compressed? do builds or rebuilds take longer or shorter when compression is used? just what would it help?   Resolution: These are administrator-only functions for use with shared databases. They were used to compact the shared databases. They are not currently recommended for use since disk space is cheaper. . Old KB# 1191#EnterpriseAnalyzer#SupportTip

Problem: Application is CICS, but the PCT tables are in another group, are they necessary in order to set up Revolve properly? Resolution: It is best to use the CSD report that is created using the following JCL: To load this information into Revolve:     1)  Modifiy the bold italic items in the following JCL to match your environment     2)  Execute this JCL on your mainframe     3)  Download the output file to a PC file using the ASCII and CRLF options to make a PC compatible file.     4)  Name this file with a CSD extension.     5)  Add this file to Revolve.  The automatic component locator will load the file correctly based on the extension. The JCL: //JOBCARD  JOB  ACCT(MFI) //*STEP1    EXEC PGM=DFHCSDUP //STEP1   &nbs

Problem: We have built a Revolve project but found many missing files (copybooks, procs and control cards). When we go to the Project Complete window and expand 'copybooks not found' the list appears, but to find out what module called the missing item you have to click on "go to". This displays the program or JCL referencing the missing file, but the list can not be saved for printing or to pass it to another user/department. How can we get the list Revolve built? Resolution: In this case, the customer was using these steps: -  Project>Complete>Copybooks/Procs Not Found -  Highlight the list presented and then select 'Go To' -  The program that referenced the missing copybook was displayed,     but it could not be saved to a text file in the format of:      copybook   pgm1        copybook   pgm2&nbsp

Problem: It was pointed out earlier in the week that the COBOL code in ABCDEF12.CBL was out of date and was replaced (2 years ago) by ABCDEF12.COB.  Both of these are present in the source files one at \\Revolve Data\\OLDE\\dbCobol\\ and the other at \\Revolve Data\\OLDE\\Cobol\\ though only one the .CBL program was loaded to the Project.  So, last night the .CBL program was deleted from the project and removed the source from the directory, the updates were done and then added the "new" modules, which then rebuilt the project.  Updated the Share.  After drilling down to ABCDEF12.COB and try to display source - nothing displays. Then different things were tried: 1) deleting the ABCDEF12.COB program, re-built the project, updated the Share; then added the program back, re-parsed, updated the Share and still the source would not display. 2) On the off chance there was something wrong with the copy that existed, it was copied dow

Problem: Having installed based version of Revolve, latest fixpacks and  msdk07all.exe there should be no problem when starting up the GENERATE MIGRATION ASSESSMENT HTML on a batch project.   However, on occasions a generic CICS error may be encountered when updating the project with the CICS part and staring up the GENERATE MIGRATION ASSESSMENT HTML again. Resolution: This can happen where the changes to a .txt or .cfg file that helps to configure the batch process are not recognised. So to circumvent this problem simply delete the original XML and HTML folders and then rerun the batch process.   Old KB# 1194#EnterpriseAnalyzer#SupportTip

Problem: Using the following command to install Revolve on the clients machines silently: start /wait \\\\sp107alyn\\Software\\Revolve\\Base\\SETUP\\RVP3270020025.exe /s /v"/qn /l*vx %temp%\\INSTALLRevolve.log INSTALLDIR=\\"D:\\PROGRAM FILES\\MICRO FOCUS\\REVOLVE" ADDLOCAL=ASM" The problem is that this only installs base Revolve and the assembler extension.  It doesn't install EE.  What is the secret ADDLOCAL code to get EE to install? Resolution: changing ADDLOCAL from =ASM to =EE,ASM: start /wait \\\\sp107alyn\\Software\\Revolve\\Base\\SETUP\\RVP3270020025.exe /s /v"/qn /l*vx %temp%\\INSTALLRevolve.log INSTALLDIR=\\"D:\\PROGRAM FILES\\MICRO FOCUS\\REVOLVE" ADDLOCAL=EE,ASM" will work to install silently on a machine with Revolve 7.002.0025 with Enterprise Edition and Assembler. Old KB# 1200#EnterpriseAnalyzer#SupportTip

Problem: Using the following syntax, not getting the correct results: >>vvar:=(5-3) >>show vvar 5 Using script - getting error that it can't find the variable: vX:= 10; While (vX > 1) {   show "hello",vX;   vX:= (vx-1); } Resolution: when doing the subtractions, spaces need to be in the parantheses around the number, variable - >>vvar:=( 5 - 3 ) >>show vvar 2 >>vvar:=(5 - 3) >>show vvar 2 and in the script: vX:= 10; While (vX > 1) {   show "hello",vX;   vX:= ( vx - 1 ); } >>invoke("c:\\rv\\subtract.rqc") hello10 hello9 hello8 hello7 hello6 hello5 hello4 hello3 hello2 it all depends on syntax of the statement. Old KB# 1181#SupportTip#EnterpriseAnalyzer

Problem: When parsing with the following PROC statement: //U0X107SF    PROC  LOTTO=&LOTTO,AC=AC,PPP=PPP,GRP=GRP,AC7= the folllowing error message is encountered and it is necessary to shut down. Micro Focus Revolve has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience".   It is then possible to click on a button to generate an error report from Microsoft. If the PROC command is changed to: //U0X107SF    PROC  LOTTO=TLOTTO,AC=AC,PPP=PPP,GRP=GRP,AC7= ie. changing the "&" character to "T" ,  then the error no longer occurs.   It is not always feasible to change all the PROC statements in this way. By re-parsing the project, this phase will finish correctly without the abend. How can this be avoided Resolution: The error occurs in version 7.002 of Revolve but the problem has been addressed and will

Problem: Does Revolve work with Open Office? It's a free office platform. Resolution: Open Office is big among the Linux types. In principal, Revolve users should be able to open any of the Excel spreadsheets or .csv files produced (MARS, worksheet export, etc.) with open office. Though the reports created for Access could be more of a problem: The exported reports database has a lot of Basic code in the background, and not sure whether Open Office would handle that. On the other hand, emphasis on the reports database has decreased, so it may not matter. Revolve wouldn't be able to launch an open office application in the way that it currently launches Excel or Access after an export, but that may not matter either, provided Open Office can open the files once they're created. Old KB# 1180#EnterpriseAnalyzer#SupportTip

Problem: Created a trivial project containing only 2 PLI programs.  Build "phase 6 of 10 Parsing" yields message "An error occurred in the selected preprocessor".  Checked licensing, and PLI option looks OK. Attached please find the output of MFSupportInfo utility, a copy of RVIO.ini, all of the project files, and the two PLI programs. Please note that these programs parsed fine on another machine, last year, using Revolve 6.2. Resolution: The root problem was that the customer was installing MFE, not MFE EE for PL/I, when an upgrade to a new machine was made.  Once this was done, the customer is able to parse the PL/I with Revolve project with no problem. Old KB# 1187#OpenPLI#Revolve#EnterpriseAnalyzer#MFDS#Enterprise#MainframeExpressandMFE#EnterpriseDeveloper

Problem: Version:  Revolve 7.0.75 on window XP SP2 Ser 2. Description : Cannot load program into Revolve. The status for the program will not status from parsed to loaded. Resolution: The program in question has different characters for comments in column 7, once these were added in the component parameter options, the program was parsed correctly. By default the comment character only allowed is * This program had / and - in column 7, so the program wasn't parsing to completing, it was stopping at the first occurrence of / in column 7.  Once the comment characters were added (/-*) the program parsed without failure. Old KB# 1182#EnterpriseAnalyzer#SupportTip

Problem: Need to know how to uninstall - regularly - it pops up a box asking licensing question to revoke or retain the license how to uninstall revolve 6.2 silently - retaining the license - to follow up with the install of Revolve 7.0 Resolution: Using the following parameter: C:\\WINDOWS\\uninst.exe -fc:\\revolve\\DeIsL1.isu -y -a rd c:\\revolve /s /q cd\\ cd C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs rd "Micro Focus Revolve 6.2 TPS" /s /q To get the correct location, if this is being done by someone not familiar with the machine: regedit [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Micro Focus\\Revolve\\6.1\\Wrapper\\Setup\\1-Revolve] "UninstallCommand"="C:\\\\WINDOWS\\\\uninst.exe -fc:\\\\tps\\\\DeIsL1.isu -y -a" The syntax between the quotes on the "UninstallCommand" line should work for these needs to uninstall the product silently. Old KB# 1198#SupportTip#EnterpriseAnalyzer

Problem: Is UDB another database that is supported in the assessment reports for MARS? Resolution: ONLY SQL Server and Oracle are currently supported. Old KB# 1189#SupportTip#EnterpriseAnalyzer

Problem: The Administrator just uninstalled RV70 for one of his users. The Administrator can no longer save the Revoke key. The Administrator used Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, but the Revoke key could not be saved. The Administrator was then presented a screen showing a different code after The Administrator selected 'manual'. Resolution: The Revoke Key is saved to a textual file in the bin directory, called protrev.key.   This file is created or updated when a Manual Revoke is performed.   If a revoke of the license is done against a license server set up, the protrev.txt file is not updated. If there are multiple products installed on the user's machine, the protrev.key is created and updated in the bin directory of the product that the License Management System was open under.   For example, if the user went to Start/Programs/Micro Focus Mainframe Express/Configuration/License Management System and revoked a key

Problem: Installed Micro Focus Revolve 7.0 WebSync 2 Installed Micro Focus Resolve 7.0 WrapPack 4 Installed Migration Software Development Kit (MSDK) AddPack 1.0.007 Got McAfee On-Access Scan Messages: VirusScan Alert! A file has been detected on your PC as either malware or a potentially unwanted program.  An attempt has been made to clean the file(s), if it is cleanable.  It was also moved to the Quarantine folder where it will remain for 45 days. Name: C:\\Program Files\\Micro Focus\\Migration Software Development Kit\\ELTH\\qabin\\Windows\\wget.exe Detecteed As: Tool-Get State: Deleted Message repeated for Name: C:\\Program Files\\Micro Focus\\Migration Software Development Kit\\ELTH\\qabin\\Windows_NT\\wget.exe Has this broken the Revolve MARS Installation?  Is this file needed? Resolution: ELTH includes parts of the Cygwin Unix-on-Windows toolset in order to run shell scripts (the "qabin") in Windows.  

Problem: The following was found in docs Installing Silently To install this product silently from the command line, execute the RV*.msp file from your websync directory with the following command: <filename>.MSP /q Resolution: Silent Install Install Micro Focus products silently by using command line parameters to specify the installation directory, user information, and which features to install. To install silently, from the setup folder of the Micro Focus product CD, type the following command line: start /wait install-file.exe /s /v"/qn[ parameters]" Parameters A silent installation creates a log file in %temp%\\[log filename] by default. To change the location use the /l parameter on your Setup command line.  /l*v drive:\\path\\filename. If the log file created ends with "completed successfully", the silent install was successful. To override the default installation folder using the INSTALLDIR parameter: INSTALLDIR=path

Problem: Isn't there a Mars report that reported on fields which are compared to numeric as a potential migration issue. For example:   IF CT-CMPRSN-FLG (CT-CP-NBR) > 0   where   15 CT-CMPRSN-FLG            PIC X.                           In this case, the program worked on the mainframe because in EBCDIC collating sequence the compare was false but in ASCII the compare was true so we were falling through the wrong path. Isn't this part of the the Mars reports or maybe it was a different report. Resolution: The comparisons that usually involve literals, use the "Data items used in comparisons" the most likely analysis tool to find these items. Old KB# 1202#EnterpriseAnalyzer#SupportTip

Problem: Having created a project in Revolve and then parsing with the PROC instruction: //U0X107SF    PROC  LOTTO=&LOTTO,AC=AC,PPP=PPP,GRP=GRP,AC7= The USER may encounter the following error: "Micro Focus Revolve has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience". Modiyfing the PROC instruction to: //U0X107SF    PROC  LOTTO=TLOTTO,AC=AC,PPP=PPP,GRP=GRP,AC7= and then parsing the project again, the error is no longer encountered. By replacing the & character with T resolves the problem.  However, this is not always a suitable solution as there may be many PROC ionstructions to modify. Resolution: This problem has now been fixed in fixpack RVP3270030025.msp for Revolve Enterprise Edition 7.0. The problem was fixed in the attached DLL. Attachments: rvprejcl.dll Old KB# 1185#Enterpri

Problem: There is a method to convert VSE jcl to MVS style so that Revolve can parse it.  It is a field engineered solution available. It is detailed in KB number 23722.  It will not run on my laptop.  When this is run, a message comes back that says receive error code 114. ------------- Information from the log file created by vmconva.exe vmconva.exe caused an exception at address : 0x6011DF18 Exception type - EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION on Write. Address 0x60131F9C Registers: EAX 60131F9C EBX 6011DEB0 ECX 0032FB62 EDX B8AC00AC DS  0023 ESI 00002726 ES  0023 EDI 6011DF24 FS  003B GS  0000 CS  001B EIP 6011DF18 SS  0023 ESP 0012FD64 EBP 6011DEB0 Flags 00010296 Error occurred in : T:\\MFE\\Revolve Tools\\VSE jcl\\CBLRTSS.dll, loaded at 0x600A0000 CompanyName Micro Focus International Limited FileDescription Micro Focus 32-

Problem: Are there ramifications to the Analysis if the Cache isn't built? Resolution: If the Cache isn't built for the project, as in there is no fum/ufm files listed in the PROJECT folder or the SHA folder, then the analysis will slow down between not much and several thousand percent (if not considerably more), depending on what analysis is being done. Not building the cache files may also cause a few discrepancies with the results using the cache as the 'on-the-fly' algorithm isn't as good at matching uses of the same copybooks or determine which copybooks were used first as the one used by the cache. Old KB# 1196#SupportTip#EnterpriseAnalyzer

Problem: Would like Revolve to acknowledge EXT files as executables and add them to a project with Search Paths.  How can this be done? Resolution: First thing is to edit the revolve\\bin\\global.def file: To add EZTrieve files as components: The steps to take to bring in EZTrieve files as component are as follows: 1.  Change to Global.def file.  This is found in Revolve\\bin\\ directory.  It should have the following lay out: [Scanners] count=5 scan1=dfsmda," =,","",1 scan2=Old Schedules - Please Convert," =,","",1 scan3=dyl," ","",2 scan4=csd," ",")",4 scan5=ezt,"","",0                                     [ScanRelations] source1="DFSMDA*TYPE=DATABASE*DBNAME=$","DFSMDA*TYPE=DATABASE",system_ims_dbd_database dest1="DFSMDA*

Problem: Trying to get display statements that include cobol_usage_ref that are of a particular size via REQL Resolution: show cobol_state_display:>hasa_cobol_usage_ref:>system_of:>attr_reql_size=65 This syntax above returns: >>show cobol_state_display:>hasa_cobol_usage_ref:>system_of:>attr_reql_size=65 65 wants the variable attached to this - by changing the syntax to the following: >>show cobol_state_display:>hasa_cobol_usage_ref:>system_of::>attr_reql_size=65 (adding the : so it's ::> for attr_reql_size) this is what is returned: >>show cobol_state_display:>hasa_cobol_usage_ref:>system_of::>attr_reql_size=65 cobol_var : WS-CONSOLE-MESSAGE  {ZBANKULP.CBL at 125,12 } Old KB# 1116#EnterpriseAnalyzer#SupportTip

Problem: Einige Analysis Tools sind in der Tool-Liste nicht verfuegbar. Resolution: Die Analysis Tools sind verfuegbar, aber sind nicht der Tool Palette hinzugefuegt. Um sie der Liste hinzuzufuegen klicken Sie im "Analysis Tools" Fenster bitte auf Options und anschliessend auf den Reiter "Tool Palette Editor". Waehlen Sie dort aus der Liste der verfuegbaren Werkzeuge ("Available Tools") diejenigen aus, die der "Tool palette" hinzugefuegt werden sollen.   Old KB# 1112#SupportTip#EnterpriseAnalyzer

Problem: Customer has multiple projects and wants to know if it would be best to be stored on a network drive and how to access them. Resolution: 1.  The first rule of creating projects for Revolve is to make sure each project is in its own folder.  There should not be more than one .prj file in a folder.  Violation of this rule can cause synchronization issues to one project as other projects that model the same components are updated. 2.   Keeping a standard for the projects, where they are stored, is necessary for the whole of the department using Revolve.         a.  It would be best to store all projects on a network drive dedicated to the Revolve source and projects.         b.  It is important that all users of Revolve map the network drive letter the same, as this mapping is used to locate and display the correc