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Terminal type not defined - DSCRUN

  • February 26, 2013
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When I try to animate any Cobol program which contains a call to Dialog System, at the point where the call is made animator stops and displays a panel headed "Perform/Call Stack - view" . This indicates that DSCRUN is not animatable. There is also the error message: 191 Terminal type not defined - DSCRUN.

I believe there is only one terminal type defined on our system, which is vt220.  

The programs run OK "normally". My problem is getting past the Dialog System calls when debugging. 


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Blair McDonald
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When I try to animate any Cobol program which contains a call to Dialog System, at the point where the call is made animator stops and displays a panel headed "Perform/Call Stack - view" . This indicates that DSCRUN is not animatable. There is also the error message: 191 Terminal type not defined - DSCRUN.

I believe there is only one terminal type defined on our system, which is vt220.  

The programs run OK "normally". My problem is getting past the Dialog System calls when debugging. 


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Hello Richard,

What operating system and version are you on? You can use "uname -a" to find this information.

Also, which version of Server Express are you running? This can be found by running "cob -V"

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When I try to animate any Cobol program which contains a call to Dialog System, at the point where the call is made animator stops and displays a panel headed "Perform/Call Stack - view" . This indicates that DSCRUN is not animatable. There is also the error message: 191 Terminal type not defined - DSCRUN.

I believe there is only one terminal type defined on our system, which is vt220.  

The programs run OK "normally". My problem is getting past the Dialog System calls when debugging. 


#ServerExpress

Thanks Blair

We have SCO Unixware 7.1.4 and Server Express 5.1 WrapPack 5

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  • Anonymous
  • February 27, 2013

When I try to animate any Cobol program which contains a call to Dialog System, at the point where the call is made animator stops and displays a panel headed "Perform/Call Stack - view" . This indicates that DSCRUN is not animatable. There is also the error message: 191 Terminal type not defined - DSCRUN.

I believe there is only one terminal type defined on our system, which is vt220.  

The programs run OK "normally". My problem is getting past the Dialog System calls when debugging. 


#ServerExpress

I was able to produce this same error inside Animator:

191     Terminal type not defined - DSCRUN

by setting the environment variable COBTERMINFO to a location other than $COBDIR/terminfo.  Here is output from 'echo' commands on my system under conditions where the error occurs:

$ echo $COBDIR
/products/SXv51WP7

$ echo $COBTERMINFO
/usr/share/terminfo

I can fix the problem by un-setting COBTERMINFO (the preferred approach), or setting COBTERMINFO=$COBDIR/terminfo.   On your system, what is the value of the COBTERMINFO environment variable when this error occurs?   Also, what is the value of the TERM and (if set) the TERMINFO environment variables?

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When I try to animate any Cobol program which contains a call to Dialog System, at the point where the call is made animator stops and displays a panel headed "Perform/Call Stack - view" . This indicates that DSCRUN is not animatable. There is also the error message: 191 Terminal type not defined - DSCRUN.

I believe there is only one terminal type defined on our system, which is vt220.  

The programs run OK "normally". My problem is getting past the Dialog System calls when debugging. 


#ServerExpress

COBDIR=/opt/microfocus/cobol

COBTERMINFO=/usr/lib/terminfo

TERM=vt220aec

TERMINFO is not set

I changed COBTERMINFO to $COBDIR/terminfo and can now animate OK.

Thanks very much.

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