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This article addresses the System.BadImageFormatException when calling EHLAPI32 DLL. Problem: We received the following error when calling EHLAPI32 DLL: Unhandled Exception: System.BadImageFormatException: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B) at Test_EHLAPI32_DLL.WD_ConnectPS(Int32 hInstance, String& ShortName) at Test_EHLAPI32_DLL.Main() below is the code: Private Declare Function WD_ConnectPS Lib "c:\\program files\\NetManage\\system\\EHLAPI32.DLL" (ByVal hInstance As Integer, ByVal ShortName As String) As Short Resolution: The message

How to modify the ASCII to EBCDIC translation table for file transfer. Problem: At times a custom character translation may be needed when transferring files to and from a Mainframe host. Resolution: To modify the translation table for file transfer: In the Rumba mainframe display, choose Transfer > Configure On the file transfer configuration dialog, click on the

Created On:  14 March 2011 Problem: Square boxes are being printed instead of vertical and horizontal lines when printing or previewing a UNIX host screen. Resolution: By default, Include Formatting option is enabled or checked in a UNIX host display session. This option reduces the size of the print file. You need to clear or disable this option in order for the lines to appear properly. Disabling this option removes all print codes and turns off the underlining, hidden fields, italics, and bold formatting. To disable this option: 1. Launch a Rumba UNIX display session. 2. Click File, and then click Print. 3. In the General tab, uncheck Include Formatting option. 4. Click OK to print and exit, or click Accept to save settings and exit without printing. 5. Now you should b

Office 2007 doesn’t provide the option to save the Excel sheet in Excel 4 format. Problem: The customer cannot use the RUMBA AS/400 File Transfer utility to upload Excel files created with Office 2007. Resolution: The RUMBA AS/400 file transfer utility can be used to upload data in an Excel sheet to an AS/400 host. Currently the RUMBA file transfer utility can only upload Excel files that are saved in Excel 4 format, but this option is not available in Office 2007. The workaround is to save the Excel 2007 sheet in comma separated value (csv) format and then upload the .csv file to an AS/400 host. Old KB# 14202

Problem: With the pre-fork option set in Apache 2.2.8 build, the mpm_worker_module server limit defaults to 1, which will allow only one user and one concurrent session on the Enterprise Link Server.  This in turn exhausts the user and server licenses, and then generates the EL00009 error. Resolution: Rebuild Apache 2.2.8, using the instructions in the following online Wiki article: http://www.enterpriselink.com/Authoring/ElWiki/default.aspx/ElWiki/ApacheHTTPD.html The rebuild will resolve the EL00009/pre-fork issue. Note:  Users may need to be registered to access the Wiki site.  They may register here:              http://64.32.191.228/Inf

Problem:Runtime Exception (Persistant Server ID is not set) occurs while running a VisiBroker 7.0 CORBA Server application in JBuilder Enterprise 2006Resolution: Product Name: BAS 6.6/ VisiBroker 7.0 Product Component: Integration with Borland JBuilder 2006 Enterprise Platform/OS Version: Windows XP Professional Purpose of Document: ?Runtime Exception (Persistant Server ID is not set) occurs while running a VisiBroker 7.0 CORBA Server application in JBuilder Enterprise 2006?, the purpose of this article is to explain the cause of this exception and how it can be prevented. Problem Description: While running a CORBA server using VisiBroker 7.0 with JBuilde

Problem: The host system (MF ES IMS) has its timeout set to 30 minutes, the same as the Elink setting.  However, in many cases of user inactivity beyond 30 minutes, Elink accepts the user request and continues with the session. The following lines from server.log indicate that the user got the login screen "unexpectedly", but this is actually because the host has correctly timed out because the previous activity was more than 30 minutes ago: 2007/09/24 11:48:04 [0x1112] SSSessionMgr::Dispatch(3669): * Request completed for session 7Q0TFEj7wYcVmm8O, page JK0P30 2007/09/24 12:21:29 [0x1e1f] SSSession::hyperlink(7780): expecting UpdtHostScreen5273 but got DFS3649A218 2007/09/24 14:04:41 [0x1314] SSSessionMgr::Dispatch(3669): * Request completed for session 7Q0TFEj7wYcVmm8O, page JI0CMM 2007/09/24 14:46:48 [0x0405] S

This article explains why ViewNow version 7.2 installer fails on Windows XP when it reaches calculating the disk space. Problem: For some reason ViewNow version 7.2 installer fails on Windows XP when it reaches calculating the disk space. Why is this and how can it be resolved? Resolution: This problem is encountered on Windows XP operating systems if the Windows Installer is upgraded to version 4.5 or later. The workaround is to perform a silent installation from the command line with MSIEXEC. The following command can be used to install ViewNow 7.2 with Windows Installer version 4.5: Msiexec /I idrclt7.msi LICENSEKEY=xxxxx-

This article explains what to do if some 132 column print jobs sent to the Rumba Mainframe print emulator wrap to the next line. Problem: Some specific LU3 132 column print jobs don’t print correctly. Instead of printing 132 columns on a single line, the data wraps partially onto the next line. What can be done about this? Resolution: This problem can be avoided by adding two DWORD values to the registry and setting them to ‘1’: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\WALLDATA\\Office\\Mframe\\DisableNLatMAXColforDATA HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\WALLDATA\\Office\\Mframe\\DisableNLatMAXColforNL

Created On:  2009-04-24 Problem: How can I enable additional tracing in OnWeb Object Builder? Resolution: When performing advanced project troubleshooting, it may at times be necessary to enable additional tracing in OnWeb Object Builder.  To do so press the right Control, Alt and the ‘?’ key.  You will notice that you now have an additional menu item next to the Help menu called “Support”.   Select this menu, and enable both Internal Trace and Trace Server requests.  You should see an indication in the Output window that Internal tracing has been enabled.  Additionally click the menu item File, choose Settings, and then expand Navigator Properties.  Choose Debugging, and change the Trace Level to 511 (from 512).  Indicate a file name, and switch Tracing to True.

This knowledge article provides the steps to enable passthrough printing in a Rumba UNIX display session. Problem: Does Rumba support passthrough printing for Unix Hosts? Resolution: Passthrough printing is a UNIX feature that sends data to a terminal printer. Micro Focus Rumba has support for passthrough printing for UNIX hosts. A user can enable this feature in Rumba by performing the following steps: Launch a UNIX display. Click on

Created On:  2010-04-21 Problem: When attempting to download certain files from the iSeries to the personal computer an error message is encountered.  This is most likely to occur with files that contain a large number of records. The message says “AS400FTX MFC Application has encountered a problem and needs to close.”  The file transfer application will then close. Resolution: This issue has been fixed in Rumba 8.0 hotfix 6686.  Please contact your Micro Focus Supportline representative to obtain this fix. Incident #2438931 Old KB# 31076

Created On:  30 January 2012 Problem: I tried to add a custom dictionary, but I could not find a dictionary file and the dialog box will not allow me to create a new file. How can I create a dictionary file? Resolution: A feature called Spell Checking has been incorporated in Rumba 8.2. This new feature lets a user perform dynamic spell checking of host screen content and user text entry. Users can change the default dictionary language, as well as add a custom dictionary. A custom dictionary can be created by performing the following steps: Now launch Rumba Mainframe Display session. Click on Options -> Rumba options -> Spell Check and click on the “Browse” button Select the file that you just created (Rumba_dictionary.dic) and press ok. Now type a customized spelling of a w

Rumba client API file names. Problem: This KB article contains information on the Rumba Client API DLL file names, and also how to change these names. Resolution: The standard Client API names are as follows: Table 1. Client API file Names API 32-bit 16-bit/16-bit thunking

Created On:  27 September 2010 Problem: Rumba 8.0 desktop freezes when attempting to launch Rumba from Start > All programs on a Windows XP/Windows 2003 system. Resolution: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 must be installed in order to install and run Micro Focus Rumba 8.0 software. Users will encounter this problem if .NET 3.5.1 Framework installation gets corrupted or inadvertently uninstalled. Event ID 1002 may also be reported in the event viewer under these circumstances. Perform the following steps in order to repair .NET 3.5.1 installation on Windows XP:1.  Click the Start button > Control Panel > Programs, and highlight Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP 1.2.  Click on the Change/Remove button. This will launch Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 setup in the maintenance

Created On:  14 March 2011 Problem: Rumba ODBC drivers are not available in the ODBC administrator on 64 bit machines. Resolution: To work around this problem, you need to manually execute 32 bit ODBC Administrator tool. Open a command prompt and navigate to %windir%\\SysWOW64\\ . Now type odbcad32.exe and press enter. Now you should be able to see Rumba optimized drivers in the ODBC administrator tool. Old KB# 33675#Rumba

This article explains how to speed up EnterpriseLink Builder's initial load time. Problem: It can take several minutes to load the EnterpriseLink Builder, can this be sped up in any way? Resolution: When starting, builder will connect to your repository and load any projects that were left open when builder was closed previously. In EnterpriseLink v5.0 WS12 (and higher), you can speed up Builder’s load time by closing all projects prior to closing Builder. This way it will not try to load any projects at start time, it will only open and load the project once you try to open it itself in Builder.

How to prevent blank pages from printing in LU3 print jobs. Problem: Blank pages are sent to the printer between LU3 print jobs. These separator pages are unnecessary and sometimes undesirable when printing to a non-shared device. Resolution: Blank pages can be suppressed by adding the following DWORD value to the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Walldata\\Office\\Mframe\\SuppressLu3BlankPages Set the value to ‘1’ to suppress the output of blank pages. Note that some pages that appear blank actually contain empty fields. These pages will continue to print, even with this setting enabled. Only empty blank pag

Describes the amount of resources that are consumed when running a Rumba printer session as a Windows service. Problem: How many Rumba printer sessions can be configured as Windows services? Is there a hard coded limit that should not be exceeded? Resolution: There is no hard-coded limit on the number of printer servers you can run. However, each printer service uses a specific amount of machine resources, and this may prove a practical limit. Some customers are not able to run more than 32 services on a machine because of limited resources. Each printer service uses approximately 8 MB of memory when it is sitting idle. It will allocate more resources w

Screens are displayed with the messages "RUMBA is searching for the first screen" and "Function key not allowed". Problem: When print screen is initiated, the RUMBA display screen keeps popping up windows displaying the message "RUMBA is searching for the first screen". When Print Now or Cancel are pressed, it displays the error message "Function key not allowed". Resolution: This problem occurs when the RUMBA application print feature unexpectedly recognizes the current screen as a trigger screen and tries to perform a multipage printout using one of its schemes. To prevent this behavior, you can disable this fea

File Transfer only downloads 16,383 records from AS/400 to Microsoft Excel file format Problem: RUMBA AS/400 File Transfer only downloads 16,383 records despite the host reporting many more records in the file. Resolution: This is a feature required for earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, which had a maximum limit of 16,384 rows. If File Transfer created an Excel spreadsheet with more rows than the format supported, Excel would crash or report an error when loading the file. To force File Transfer to create a longer .XLS file:

This article explains which version of RUMBA is needed for use with Windows Vista. Problem: Which versions of RUMBA can be installed on Windows Vista? Resolution: Version 7.5.1 or higher of RUMBA are Windows Vista compatible. Old KB# 14602#Rumba

Created On:  14 October 2011 Problem: While recording Rumba 8.1 scripts SilkTest Workbench does not record all steps specifically the steps related to field changes through TAB keys such as userid, password fields.  Rumba plugins [MicroFocus_SilkTest_Rumba_TechDomain_Plugin.dll] do not get registered with SilkTest workbench if Rumba 8.1.0 is installed prior to SilkTest. Resolution: Following steps will reolve this issue: 1. Install SilkTest 2011 [Run as Administrator] 2. Install Rumba 8.1.0 [Run as Administrator] 3. Configure connection configuration for Rumba 4. Enabling Support as follows: Click Start > Silk > SilkTest {version} > Administration Tools > Rumba plugin > Enable SilkTest Rumba plugin5. Launch SilkTest Workbench and selec

This article describes how to address the error messages, runtime error 0 and 372 – vbalExplorerBarLib / vbalExplorerBarCtl Problem: When loading an existing or recent catalog you are presented with the following error:Runtime error 0 – vbalExplorerBarLib You may also see a subsequent error message:Run-time error ‘372’: Failed to load control ‘vbalExplorerBarCtl’ from vbalexpbar6.ocx. Resolution: The error is displayed as either the vbalexpbar6.ocx or the dependent library, ssubtmr6.dll, is not registered correctly. To correct this issue, unregister and then register the objects as follows:

Created On:  30 November 2012 Problem: Is it possible to configure Rumba AS/400 PC print queues interval time? Resolution: PC Printer Queues is a feature of Rumba AS/400 printer that lists each network and local printer set up in Windows, along with information about the current jobs on each printer.  By default Rumba sends a status update query to these printers every 3 seconds in order to display the most current job status of each printer. This can cause unwanted traffic on the network. The refresh interval is end-user configurable and can be changed by following the following steps. ·     &nbs