I'm getting started with an evaluation version of Relativity and I try to create a new catalog in Designer. I choose File -> Create New Data Source. I select Micro Focus Relativity Data Manager. Then I click the Create Catalog button and select a file name.

I'm getting "ASLM: Semaphore failure." error. I've executed ASLMPCLOCATE as instructed but no change. Running Process Monitor shows that it's looking for IDELINK.DLL but I can't find it on my drive.

Anybody knows what I'm missing?

Thank you!

Which Micro Focus COBOL product do you have installed on this computer Net Express, Server 5.1, Visual COBOL, COBOL Server??
Apptrack on Windows is for licensing the Server 5.1 (Application Server) production product. Using Relativity requires one of these products to be installed and licensed as it needs to access the file handler and the run-time system.

I believe that IDELINK.DLL is only found in the Mainframe Express product which is very old. It could be that Relativity is finding an older version of the CBLRTSS.DLL file,  which is the COBOL run-time system. In your procmon trace look for occurrences of  CBLRTSS to see where it is being located...

I have Relativity Server and Relativity Designer. They're both in version 2.3 32 bits and I have evaluation licenses for both.

What I just realized, and I'm sorry for that, is that I copied thre Bin directory from a Net Express installation and forgot about that.

I removed everything and reinstalled, but I'm back to the problem I had before I copied the Net Express libraries: I have "Error loading external File Manager DLL". With ProcMon, I see that CreateDataSource.Exe is looking for MFFH.DLL. I was told Designer would solve that problem, but obviously, it doesn't.

If you wish to access MF data files using the Relativity products than it is a requirement that you have an MF COBOL Development or Deployment product installed and licensed on your computer.

This requirement can be found in the docs under Software Requirements at this link.

The following products are supported:

Software requirements

This Relativity product requires one of the following Micro Focus COBOL development or deployment
products.
• Visual COBOL or Enterprise Developer (including Development Hub and UNIX Components variants),
version 5 or later.
• Enterprise Test Server, version 5 or later.
• Net Express 5.1 Update 18.
• COBOL Server or Enterprise Server, version 5 or later.
• Micro Focus Server 5.1 Update 18.

If you wish to access MF data files using the Relativity products than it is a requirement that you have an MF COBOL Development or Deployment product installed and licensed on your computer.

This requirement can be found in the docs under Software Requirements at this link.

The following products are supported:

Software requirements

This Relativity product requires one of the following Micro Focus COBOL development or deployment
products.
• Visual COBOL or Enterprise Developer (including Development Hub and UNIX Components variants),
version 5 or later.
• Enterprise Test Server, version 5 or later.
• Net Express 5.1 Update 18.
• COBOL Server or Enterprise Server, version 5 or later.
• Micro Focus Server 5.1 Update 18.

Just another questipn: do I need one of those if I only deploy the client/server, without Designer or DBA?