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We are installing a new server running Server Express 5.1 under Sco UNIX 7.1.4

We have 2 developer licenses.

I've copied the Cobol programs, copy files and data from our old server and regenerated all the code, which is running OK. However there are some different results in some of the reports to our original system and I want to animate to find out why.

On the Developer Environment I compiled the first program I want to animate and checked that an idy and an int were created from the original cbl

I then press F4 to start the animation and type my program name into the file parameter. When I press enter I am returned straight back to the developer screen without any messages and without entering an animation screen.

I guessed I might have a problem with my environment variables, but I can't see where I'm going wrong.

The variables set up are:

COBDIR=/opt/lib/cobol

export COBDIR

COBIDY=/source/cobol/idy

export COBIDY

COBCPY=/source/copy

export COBCPY

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$COBDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

PATH=$COBDIR/bin:$PATH

export PATH

COBTERMINFO=$COBDIR/terminfo

export COBTERMINFO

set `tty`

if [ $1 = "/dev/console" ]

then TERM=AT386-ie

else TERM=vt220aec

fi

export TERM

COBPATH=/source/cobol

export COBPATH

 

 

 

 

 


#debugging
#ServerExpress

We are installing a new server running Server Express 5.1 under Sco UNIX 7.1.4

We have 2 developer licenses.

I've copied the Cobol programs, copy files and data from our old server and regenerated all the code, which is running OK. However there are some different results in some of the reports to our original system and I want to animate to find out why.

On the Developer Environment I compiled the first program I want to animate and checked that an idy and an int were created from the original cbl

I then press F4 to start the animation and type my program name into the file parameter. When I press enter I am returned straight back to the developer screen without any messages and without entering an animation screen.

I guessed I might have a problem with my environment variables, but I can't see where I'm going wrong.

The variables set up are:

COBDIR=/opt/lib/cobol

export COBDIR

COBIDY=/source/cobol/idy

export COBIDY

COBCPY=/source/copy

export COBCPY

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$COBDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

PATH=$COBDIR/bin:$PATH

export PATH

COBTERMINFO=$COBDIR/terminfo

export COBTERMINFO

set `tty`

if [ $1 = "/dev/console" ]

then TERM=AT386-ie

else TERM=vt220aec

fi

export TERM

COBPATH=/source/cobol

export COBPATH

 

 

 

 

 


#debugging
#ServerExpress

Hello Richard:

I cannot immediately see a problem in the environment variable settings, unless $COBDIR/terminfo does Not happen to contain a directory named "v", and within that directory, a compiled terminfo entry for "vt220aec".

Here is a knowledgebase article that describes what animator needs to run.  Consider especially the paragraphs beginning with, "Before Animator can be expected to work, it must have access to":

community.microfocus.com/.../6538.animator-executes-without-animation-or-shows-error-file-incompatibility.aspx

If, after consulting this article, the problem still remains, I recommend you login to supportline.microfocus.com using your supportline credentials and open a new Support Incident using the web interface, or call 1-800-632-6265 to open an incident, and one of our friendly support engineers will provide personal assistance.

We are installing a new server running Server Express 5.1 under Sco UNIX 7.1.4

We have 2 developer licenses.

I've copied the Cobol programs, copy files and data from our old server and regenerated all the code, which is running OK. However there are some different results in some of the reports to our original system and I want to animate to find out why.

On the Developer Environment I compiled the first program I want to animate and checked that an idy and an int were created from the original cbl

I then press F4 to start the animation and type my program name into the file parameter. When I press enter I am returned straight back to the developer screen without any messages and without entering an animation screen.

I guessed I might have a problem with my environment variables, but I can't see where I'm going wrong.

The variables set up are:

COBDIR=/opt/lib/cobol

export COBDIR

COBIDY=/source/cobol/idy

export COBIDY

COBCPY=/source/copy

export COBCPY

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$COBDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

PATH=$COBDIR/bin:$PATH

export PATH

COBTERMINFO=$COBDIR/terminfo

export COBTERMINFO

set `tty`

if [ $1 = "/dev/console" ]

then TERM=AT386-ie

else TERM=vt220aec

fi

export TERM

COBPATH=/source/cobol

export COBPATH

 

 

 

 

 


#debugging
#ServerExpress

Hello Dan

Sorry for not replying earlier.

I raised this as a supportline incident and they have found the problem for me.

It turns out that the permissions for /dev/pts needed to include execute permission. it was drw-rw-rw and I changed to drwxrwxrwx

animator then started working.

Thanks for your help.

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