Rocket® Net Express/Server Express

Problem: how to use files bigger than 4 gig Resolution: 1. use compiler directive IDXFORMAT"8" allows the creation of large indexed files up to 128 Tb **this step only has to be used for a program creating new files 2. Need to set FILEMAXSIZE=8 in extfh.cfg file under [XFH-DEFAULT] ex.  this file is just a text file. [XFH-DEFAULT] FILEMAXSIZE=8 3. Next  set environment variable EXTFH to point to path and file name of the cfg file (if using a project can set environment variable under Project Properties> Environment>IDE) Old KB# 5197#ServerExpress#netexpress#AcuCobol#RMCOBOL#COBOL

Problem: Return code 194 received with CBL_OPEN_FILE for file over 4GB in size. Resolution: CBL_OPEN_FILE does not use the EXTFH.CFG so the setting of FILEMAXSIZE=8 will not work. If you add 64 to the access mode parameter then this will create the same results as the FILEMAXSIZE=8. 65 Read only 66 Write only (deny-mode must be 0) 67 Read/write Old KB# 5211#netexpress#ServerExpress#RMCOBOL#COBOL#AcuCobol

Problem: A program using an open extend statement for a file defined without the optional phrase works fine on one computer. If the file does not exist then a file status code of "05" is returned, which is fine. On another machine the program cannot create the file if it does not exist unless the optional phrase IS specified. Resolution: The compiler directive option-file is the default for the Micro Focus dialect. If the RM or ansi'85' directive is used then the nooptional-file directive is also set. This could be the problem. If one of thes directives is being used then defining the optional phrase in the select statement overrides this and it will work correctly. Old KB# 5238#RMCOBOL#netexpress#AcuCobol#ServerExpress#COBOL

Problem: Net Express 4.0 on 32 bit Windows. When running an application an error stating that the runtime DLL OOPS entry point is not recorded in the Windows registry occurs. Resolution: This error is normally caused by previous versions (e.g. Net Express 3.1) of runtime files being picked up via the PATH.  Carefully check the PATH setting via Net Express command prompt and ensure no rogue entries are present. Old KB# 5222

Problem: Error received; "cannot run 16 bit window program - access to specific devise is denied" Resolution: copy cd installation to a directory on the hard drive that has no spaces in the name Old KB# 5201

Problem: Is it possible to remove the scroll bar of a Dialog System's MLE control? Resolution: It is not possible to remove the scrollbars from a standard Dialog System MLE control. It is however possible to create a MLE (Multiple Line Entry field), by using the Programmed Controls Text Entry Field control. Look at the sample under DialogSystem\\CommonControls\\TextEntry. Open up the Screenset and modify the Window so that you can make the first Text Entry Control field larger by stretching it downwards, like an MLE. Then save the screenset and regenerate the control program so that it uses the new coordinates. Open up the control program EFDEMOTXTFLD.CBL and add the following two lines of code just prior to the last invoke in the Create-Entry-Field section.           invoke aTextEntry "multiplelineentry"           invoke aTextEnt

Problem: Using "inspect ... converting" to convert signed, EBCDIC numeric data to signed, ASCII numeric data. Resolution: The example program, "CONVERTING.cbl" (see attachement). illustrates how to use an "inspect ... converting" statement to translate EBCDIC numeric display values to equivalent ASCII numeric display values. The following syntax is used.       INSPECT identifier-1 CONVERTING identifier-6 TO identifier-7 "identifier-1" is a pic x(9) item initialized to a hexadecimal value 'F1F2F3F4F5F6F7F8D9' that is equivalent to "123456789-", a signed, numeric display value on an EBCDIC computer system. "identifier-6" is a table of the numeric EBCDIC characters that might appear in a signed, numeric display item. There are three groups of possibilities. The first group, (C0C1...), are positive, unsigned digits. The second group, (D0D1...), are negative, si

Problem: The following error is received during the install. Failed to set up Integrated Development Environment. At least one Net Express option failed to install. Please exit setup and start install again. Resolution: Check the share path to the server for spaces. If there are spcaes in the path, remove the spaces and attempt the install again. Old KB# 5245

Problem: In the following example when all values on the right are 0 - gives a result of 1 - why? COMPUTE A = 1 * (B/C) (D/E) (F/G) If the value of C, E and G are changed to 1, then the result is 0. Resolution: The results beong returned are expected behaviour. The COBOL standard dictates that the result of a division by zero when no ON SIZE ERROR phrase is specified will be unpredictable (see the extract from the documentation below). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The ON SIZE ERROR Phrase and NOT ON SIZE ERROR Phrase If, after decimal point alignment, the absolute value of a result of an arithmetic operation exceeds the largest value that can be contained in the associated resultant-identifier, a size error condition exists. Division by zero always causes a size error condition. Note that the results of division by zero when no ON SIZE ERROR phrase is specified are unpredictable. The size error condition applies

Problem: Would like some additional information on this error. Net Express Exception Handler - 02/04/2005  07:09:42 O:\\FLLEV-P\\PROD\\TLS-A1WG.EXE caused an exception at address : 0x605114D0 Exception type - EXCEPTION_IN_PAGE_ERROR Registers: EAX 00000000 EBX 610525E0 ECX 00000020 EDX 00000000 DS  0023 ESI 61052628 ES  0023 EDI 00000000 FS  0038 GS  0000 CS  001B EIP 605114D0 SS  0023 ESP 0012F700 EBP 00000000 Flags 00010246 Error occurred in : O:\\FLLEV-P\\PROD\\Pan2NT.dll, loaded at 0x60500000 COBOL call stack: panels2 (obj program) panels2 (obj program) dsgrun (obj program) LSEP00G (gnt program), loaded from O:\\FLLEV-P\\PROD LSEO00G (gnt program), loaded from O:\\FLLEV-P\\PROD LSEO001 (gnt program), loaded from O:\\FLLEV-P\\PROD TLS-A1WG (obj program) Run-time : O:\\FLLEV-P\\PROD\\cblrtss.dll, loaded at 0x60080000 OS Inf

Problem: Tips on how to use data type 'SQL TYPE is TIMESTAMP' vs. MSSQLSERVER also ORACLE database. Column in MSSQLSERVER is declared as 'DATETIME'. Column in ORACLE is declared as 'DATE'. Both databases reflect a date format 'dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm:ss' which is different to 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss' by default. Resolution: A string should be redefined as follows, i.e.: 02  upd-date.     05  upd-dd           pic 99.     05  filler          pic x     value ".".     05  upd-mm          pic 99.     05  filler          pic x    &nbsp

Problem: When compiling from a command line the linker is requiring that the file external.obj be linked in but when running a .int from within the project it is not required. Resolution: .int format programs within a project will load and use the util.lbr file which contains the externl inside it. When linking OBJs the util.lbr is not used so the externl.obj module is required when there is an EXTERNAL phrase specified within an FD. Old KB# 5233

Problem: Trying to execute batch file with CBL_EXEC_RUN_UNIT and receiving  error code :173, pc=0, call=1, seq=0 called program not found in drive/directory. Resolution: CBL_EXEC_RUN_UNIT creates a synchronous or asynchronous run-unit for the execution of COBOL programs. It does not start a command processor and therefore cannot "run" a batch file. However, a command processor can be started to run a batch file from a CBL_EXEC_RUN_UNIT command line. Use a command line such as below to start a command processor and execute a batch file (the "/C" switch is a "continuation" switch to get the command processor to read the remainder of the command line): cmd /C t.bat CBL_EXEC_RUN_UNIT  cannot start Notepad.exe (for example) because Notepad is not a COBOL program. The same work around as above can be used to overcome this limitation. Start a command processor and execute a batch file that executes Notepad.exe.

Created On:  02 January 2005 Problem: When a copybook, specified in conjunction with a COPY statement, cannot be found, the compiler will flag it with the following error: "COBCH0008 Unknown COPY file filename specified" Where filename is the name of the missing copybook. Resolution: 1. Make sure the file is available in one of the following locations:    in the same directory as the source code that has has the COPY statement    in one of the directories specified in the COBCPY environment variable, i.e. COBCPY=c:\\copyfiles;c:\\morefiles    in the same location as specified in the COPY statement IF it is fully qualified from the COPY statement, i.e. x:\\dir\\filename.cpy 2. Make sure to specify the extension in the COPYEXT directive if it is not either CPY or CBL, i.e. COPYEXT"src,txt" 3. Make sure to add the COPYEXT directive accordingly:    in a directive file, e.g. COBOL.DIR in the project folder, or &

Problem: Processing text files containing "tab" delimited data. Resolution: Create an "extfh.cfg" File Handler Configuration file with these settings. (TABXMPL.TXT is a text file name that contains "tab" characters.     [XFH-DEFAULT]     BASENAME=ON     [TABXMPL.TXT]     EXPANDTAB=OFF The default setting turns BASENAME ON. The TABXMPL.TXT setting turns EXPANDTAB OFF for a file named "tabxmpl.txt". This will preserve the "tab" characters as each record is read making it possible for a program to detect these characters in a text file record. The following is an example program that will isolate each element of data delimited by a "tab" character.       $ set Ans85 Mf"10" NoOsvs NoVsc2 NoAlter NoQual DefaultByte"00"            select textFile assign 'tabxmpl.txt'    &nbsp

Problem: How can control be returned from a Dialog System Entry-Field after a specified time if the user does not input anything? Resolution: A TIMEOUT may be configured for this. >>> TIMEOUT 500 NEXT The second parameter of a timeout specifies the waiting time in hundredths of a second, after which the procedure defined by the third parameter is executed. Here: "NEXT" is executed after 5.00 seconds After the timeout occurs, please check, if there was a change on the entry-field. If there was a change, do not leave the entry-field, because the user may just enter something. Be aware, that programmed controls like a ListView, by default, do not cause a Lost-Focus-event for an Entry-Field. If the user can change to a programmed-control, please invoke its SET-FOCUS method to cause the LOST-FOCUS event for the entry-field. ------------------------------------------------------- data fields ------------------------------------ EF2-

Problem: The word "INSTANCE" was not a reserved word in Net Express 3.1 but it's now a reserved word in Net Express 4.0. Resolution: As a workaround, use the REMOVE compiler directive and re-compile. ie:      REMOVE"INSTANCE" Old KB# 5200

Problem: How to use the SetWindowText Windows API in a COBOL program. Resolution: Character user interface. RUNW.EXE -  COBOL TEXT window.        SPECIAL-NAMES.            CONSOLE IS CRT            CRT STATUS IS WA-FUNCTION            CALL-CONVENTION 74 IS WinAPI.        WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.        01   wHwnd pic xxxx comp-5.        01   statusCode pic xx comp-5.        01   SetWindowTextReturn pic xxxx comp-5.        PROCEDURE DIVISION.            display spaces upo

Problem: There is some confusion about how the VALUE NEXT phrase works when it is defined for a 78 level constant data-item that is embedded within a group item containing the REDEFINES clause. Using the example below, the following questions are asked: Is there any reason why the value of MTCount is 23 and not 12?   Is there any reason why uncommmenting TABLE-TWO will correct the problem?        01  TABLE-ONE.            78  LTSize                 VALUE 17.            78  LTStart                VALUE NEXT.            05  WS-LEVEL-TABLE.   &n

Problem: Release: Net Express 4.0. Can an Application Server install silently with Application Server Service Pack only? Resolution: Yes, it is not necessary to install the Application Server directly from the CD. The related Service Pack file aps*a*.exe (e.g. aps05a40.exe)  can be used instead. 1. Prerequisites: - The APS Service Pack needs to know, where the Application Server should be installed.    Set the following registry entry, e.g.:    HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Micro Focus\\Net Express\\4.0\\COBOL\\4.0\\Setup\\apslastfulldir = "C:\\MyApplicationServerDirectory" - The APS Service Pack needs to know, where the License Database should be installed.    Therefore a registry entry must exist similar to:    HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Micro Focus\\ASLMF\\ASLMFDIR = "C:\\mfaslmf"    Please use aslmpclocate.exe to locate the license database, e.g. to C:\\mfaslmf 2.

Problem: Net Express 4.0 with .NET Does SQL(DBMAN=ADO) in .NET give access to all ADO.NET functionality? Resolution: The current version of Net Express with .NET documentation states: 1) Existing ODBC applications can be supported by using the SQL(DBMAN=ADO) compiler    option.  An application can use both ODBC and ADO.NET but not within the same    source program. 2) However, it is stated that ADO.NET does not have all the features of ODBC.  Also    the storage and performance characteristics may also differ. 3) Additional EXEC ADO statements have been added to Net Express with .NET.  These    allow access to the ADO.NET objects that OpenESQL uses at run time. Old KB# 5223

Problem: It is possible for Net Express Windows applications to issue HTTP requests and interact with Web applications. There are a number of ways that an application can make use of this technology. For example, POST could be used to send data to a remote Web Server for processing locally at that site. An application could also "screen scrape" HTML pages and parse the information for use within the application. As long as the server supports http then an application should be able to interact with it. Resolution: There are a number of ways you can do this. In order of difficulty the available options are:- - TCP Sockets APIs. Windows has a Sockets API that could be called. This however would have a very high learning curve to learn both the Sockets API and also the HTTP protocol in order to interact with a Web Server. - Windows Internet API (WinInet). This is a higher level API and hides the lower level network protocol. It allows an application to

Problem: How to convert a sequential file to an indexed file using a cmd file. When deploying a Net Express project to a client machine that doesn't have Net Express installed and it is necessary to convert a sequential file into an indexed file before the file can be used in a COBOL program how can this be done using a cmd file? Resolution: Run rebuild from a command prompt. ....\\RebuildProject\\rebuild<Enter> Rebuild will display it's usage on the screen grouped into four categories: Rebuilding; Validation; Recovery; and Converting. Refer to Related tab above for a text copy of the following information. Rebuild command line options, Net Express 4.0, All04n40.exe, 1/26/2004 1) Usage for rebuilding: rebuild in-file[,out-file] [ /option ...] /i[:command]    - rebuild and display information /v[:n]                - display running count ever

Problem: Debugging through COBOL calling C with both debuggers. Resolution: Debugging through Net Express 4.0 COBOL int code and Visual Studio 6 C DLL code =========================================================== The project locations for this example are "C:\\cobol\\cobcallc" for the COBOL project and "C:\\cobol\\csubprog" for the Visual Studio C DLL project. It may be necessary to first edit the Windows System PATH environment variable to add the location of the C DLL so that the COBOL program can load the C DLL if they are in different locations. Open the Net Express project. Choose the "Animate" menu, "Settings..." menu: In the "Mixed Language Debugging" group, make sure that the "enable mixed-language debugging and disable generated and linked code debugging" radio button is selected. In the "General" group, the "Start Animating at" field should point to the loca

Problem: When examining a data record during program animation -  sees X"2020202020" instead of X"09". This happens with Net Express 3.1 base version. Resolution: In all versions of Net Express the answer is to use the EXTFH.CFG file with the following options: [XFH-DEFAULT] EXPANDTAB=OFF and set the environment variable EXTFH to: EXTFH=X:\\directoryname\\extfh.cfg Old KB# 5212#netexpress#ServerExpress#AcuCobol#COBOL#RMCOBOL