Rocket® RM/COBOL

Hello. I replaced my test printer software. HP LaserJet P2035 to NPI6ED50E (HP LaserJet Pro MFP M225dw). This printer does not recognize the user orientation and page size. Printed from right to left leaving plenty of space left when the report is smaller horizontally than the size of the paper. Can you give me some suggestions to solve this problem .

Problem Liant products store their license information in a license vault.  It is sometimes necessary to obtain a report on the licenses installed into this vault. Resolution You can determine what licenses are installed on a machine by executing the following command from the "SupportTools" subdirectory of your Liant product installation: suptool1 productview **The output of this command will contain the license serial numbers that are installed, and the use counts for those licenses that are located, in the vault.

Problem: RM/COBOL can load a configuration file, automatically, when it is executed.  This functionality is, also, available in the Xcentrisity BIS product. Resolution: Xcentrisity Business Information Server allows you to automatically load a configuration file when a service program is executed. The configuration file has to be located in the BIS execution directory and has to have a specific name. To become effective, however, you must restart the BIS Service Engine. Since the commands used to start, stop, and restart BIS differ from OS to OS, please refer to the BIS Users Guide for detailed instructions on how to do this for your pl

We are receiving an error from XML Extensions for RM/COBOL that is not in the list of possible errors: Status: 0070Error: 70[0] - in function: AddText Regards

Problem: By default, RM/COBOL implements a pessimistic record locking mechanism.  This type of locking allows a user process to lock a record, indefinitely, during an update.  This can cause issues if another user process is waiting on the record lock. Resolution: In Unix environments, the RM/COBOL subprogram library, C$OSLockInfo, can be used to obtain the process ID of the process that has a file locked, however, on Windows, RM/COBOL does not provide any built-in mechanism for obtaining the file lock information. In order to determine the user name of a locked file, you will h

Problem: RM/InfoExpress can be used to create new COBOL indexed files.  For that purpose, RM/InfoExpress can be configured to create new files using a specific user id with specific file permissions. Resolution: In order to get the InfoExpress server to create files with the correct permissions, you will need to execute the InfoExpress server from a shell script that sets the correct umask. This should allow you to control the shell that the InfoExpress server is created in. This will give you control over the permissions of files created using InfoExpress.UNIX-like operating system, have the function, "umask", which can be used to change the default permissions for

I’m currently working on a project for my manager where we need to interact with a JSON system.  I’m looking for a way to convert JSON into XML in order to process responses using a RM/Cobol application using XML-Extensions.  After speaking with Steve Jolivet with Microfocus, a google search returned “Converting JSON to XML using XSLT 1.0” (link “www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm written by Tom Morrison.  I copied Tom's two XSLT examples (json2xml_step1.xsl and json2xml_step2.xsl) into Stylus Studio X14 Professional.  I wanted to run the stylesheets over my existing JSON response in order to see the results. However, Stylus Studio complains about several things within json2xml_step1.xsl and I’m not strong enough in XSLT to determine what it's complaining about in some cases.  Can anyone provide some insight, please?

I have installed unixODBC and the Relativity client on Linux and can query the database using the relclienttest utility. However, when I attempt to query the database using isql, I get the following error: # isql -v mydsn[01000][unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib '/usr/local/liant/lib/relclient.so' : file not found[ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect Needless to say, the reclient library is in the specified directory and is readable. From extensive Googling of the problem, it seems that the issue is that the Relativity client is 32 bit and isql is 64 bit: # file /usr/bin/isql/usr/bin/isql: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped # file /usr/local/liant/lib/relclient.so/usr/local/liant/lib/relclient.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped I am aware that there is no 64 bi

I work for an Agriculture software company as a Crystal Reports Developer.  I’ve been asked to research a way that we can deliver Ad Hoc reporting capabilities to our customers.   I came from a Microsoft SQL environment and now utilizing the Micro focus tools. Considering our database structure is massive and too many fields/tables for the customers to deal with directly (support nightmare).  I was thinking I could deliver pre-defined stored procedures that included the most common fields and linkage to other supporting tables already done.  Then the end-user could write a report using these SP’s.  Come to find out Relativity would not be able to support this. The software tools that I’m familiar with is the Relativity Designer and Crystal reports.   The programmers use the RM – COBOL software.   My Question:  Is there any tools or a way to solve this with the Micro-Focus supported software?

This article describes the method for expanding copybooks in the CodeWatch source editor. Problem: By default, the CodeWatch editor collapses copybooks contained is a source file.  However, sometimes it is useful to view the contents of the copybooks expanded, in-line, in the source. Resolution: You can expand/collapse copybooks in the CodeWatch source editor by toggling the "COPY Files" settings in the "View" menu. Alternatively, you can instruct CodeWatch to expand copybooks, by default, by adding the following option to your CodeWatch configuration file ( %USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\Roaming\\

I have a program in cobol wow that is called to create a file. The main program only does the following: perform process-1 thru exit-process-1. The process involves reading a file to finish creating other new features. While running the process "read next" I want to allow the user to press a button to cancel.On the form I have a button that says "press here to cancel". During the process I need to know if the user presses the button to cancel. The question is, what code should I include in the process for detecting that was pressed the button "cancel" and proceed to go to the exit-process-1.

There are two options for installing RM/COBOL in a networked environment: 1. Perform a "Standard" or "Custom" installation of RM/COBOL on all of the PCs that will execute the COBOL application. 2. Perform an "Administrative" installation on a network share, then, perform a "Network" install on all of the desktop PCs. Below is an excerpt from page 57 of the RM/COBOL User's Guide in regards to the "Network" installation of RM/COBOL on client machines. This excerpt contains a short summary of the network installation process: ----------------------------------- The RM/COBOL installation process for CodeWatch, Runtime, Recover1, and Compiler supports users who wish to install RM/COBOL on a network server machine and then install RM/COBOL on multiple client machines using the RM/COBOL installation on the server. First, install all of the RM/COBOL components that you need onto

I'm in the slow process of migrating from RM w/Linux to Visual Cobol RM ... with DevHub to allow use of the Linux while coding in Windows/Eclipse. I've just encountered a problem with Relative Files. In "Standard" RM the relative file ... if you "read next" is in Sequence. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 erc.Via Visual Cobol RM ... the Relative Key is a bit of a mess.1,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,19,23,24,25 ... I really discovered this problem when my transitioned code tried to access Record #2, which doesn't exist according to VC. Any ideas on what I will need to do to get the program to work as written? I don't, unfortunately, have the time to do a file migration on all the systems and files. I've attached the simple program, and the file that proves my point. RM when set of results Visual Cobol RM different set. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, I am having a RM/Cobol-85 dat-file (indexed file?) which data I need to have extracted in a readable way for analysis (e.g. MS Excel). But I am not a programmer and not familiar with RM/Cobol. I am just an end user of this application. Unfortunately our programmes are not maintenanced any more. We use RM/Cobol-application on a Windows 7 platform with MS-Office 2007. Is there a way or program for an end user to extract or copy all the data of the dat-file in an readable way to MS Excel or a text file?I heard about Record Editor but I don't know how to use it, e.g. what kind of file structure it is or what is a copybook. Or Is there a way to copy all the lines as text at once of the RM/Cobol-85 window? Now I am able to copy only one line of the opened RM/Cobol dat-file window. But there are hundreds of lines there to copy. I tried to find something in the "Properties for Runtime" dialog box that sets copy specifications. But

Windows 8.1 Pro IIS7.5 Xcentricity Bis Server 12.09 Inactivity timeout=18000 We are experiencing inactivity timeouts of less than 10 minutes on the above described system, has anyone had this issue or know why this might be happening? Thanks, Rich#InactivityTimeout#BIS

Problem Who provides support for COBOL-CGXI when used within RM/COBOL programs? Resolution The COBOL-CGIX for RM/COBOL product was the forerunner to the Xcentrisity™ Business Information Server (BIS) product range and provided a way to quickly move a RM Cobol application from a character based application to a Web Server based application without having to rewrite all the COBOL business logic. This meant that RM COBOL handled the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) calls from the Web page. The documentation for the last supported version of COBOL-CGIX which is a Windows help file stored inside the attached zip file, provided

Problem: You can enable Xcentrisity BIS tracing for an individual service program using the {{ Trace }} tag in an SRF file. However, it is also possible to globally enable tracing for all service programs. Resolution: You can globally enable tracing on both Windows and UNIX using the BIS_TRACE_SUFFIX environment variable. Below is an excerpt from the Xcentrisity BIS User's Guide: ------------------------------- 4.11.4 The BIS_TRACE_SUFFIX Environment Variable On BIS/IIS, the BIS_TRACE_SUFFIX environment variable and, on BIS/Apache, the BISTraceSuffix configuration parameter allows trace parameters to be injected into every trace statement. While this requires administrative access to the web server, this is useful for globally providing specific clients access to trace information. ------------------------------- On

Problem: When you execute either the slicexsy utility, or, a COBOL program that implements XML Extensions, you receive an XML error: 12 - data item - not found. Resolution: The XML Extensions error 12 indicates that the COBOL program was compiled by an RM/COBOL Development System that did not have an XML Extensions Developer's license installed. In order to compile programs that employ XML Extensions, you have to install an XML Extensions Development license into your RM/COBOL Development System license vault. You can check the installed licenses for your RM/COBOL Development System by using the following command, executed from the "SupportTools" subdirectory of your RM/COBOL Development System installation: suptool1 productview If you do not see your XML Extensions license in the list generated by the "suptool1 productview" co

Processing query parameters with an Xcentrisity BIS web service In order to view query parameters passed to your XBIS web service, you will need to add the following structure to your SOAP Request area of WORKING-STORAGE: 10 S--QUERY-PARAMETERS.   20 S--QUERY-PARAMETER OCCURS 100 TIMES.     30 S--NAME PIC X(50) VALUE SPACES.     30 S--VALUE PIC X(100) VALUE SPACES. For an example of how to do this, see the attached XBIS sample web service, queryparams.zip. To deploy the sample, extract the zip archive to the BIS "samples" directory. The one callable method, "getqueryparms", will return any query parameters that it receives in the URI. If you wish to test handling query parameters when generating a WSDL, then, you ca

I am creating a Line Sequential File, for the State of Illinois, and they are saying my file contains "an extra line".  My program opens the file as output, writes the records, and then closes the file. When I look at the file, it looks to me as if the program is adding an extra carriage return at the end of the file.  How do I get rid of that, OR not write it at all? Anyone have any suggestions?

Problem Some applications require a 64-bit Windows ODBC driver; is there a 64-bit Relativity driver and if so, how can it be installed and used?   Resolution Obtaining the Relativity Data Client for 64-bit Windows The Relativity Data Client for Windows installation media(rmrelativity1214_dclient_win.exe) can be obtained in three ways: 1. From the SupportLine Product Updates Page 2. From the link provided in an Electronic Product Delivery email 3. From the Relativity CD media, in t

Problem Using RM/COBOL, is it possible to create, or read, sequential and relative files that are greater than 1 Gb? Resolution The default file size limit for sequential and relative files is 1Gb. By using runtime configuration options this limit can increased to a maximum of 128Gb. By setting the runtime configuration option LARGE-FILE-LOCK-LIMIT=x the index file limit can be increased. Where x = the size in Gb of the new file size limit, e.g. 128 for 128Gb. To make use of the new limit, the USE-LARGE-F

I don't know if anyone has come across this before but, when using JDBC, if I specify setMaxRows on the PreparedStatement, no rows are returned. As soon as I remove this statement, I get all the results. This only seems to occur on tables which contain a column of type LONGVARCHAR and only when the LONGVARCHAR column is returned in the ResultSet. On tables without LONGVARCHAR columns I can use setMaxSize without any issues. Another problem that I am encountering with the same tables is that, if I remove the setMaxRows statement and begin processing the ResultSet, when I get to the LONGVARCHAR column, I am unable to read the value. Instead, I get the following error: Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: [Relativity JDBC Driver][SimbaLNA][Liant][Relativity RM Server]Invalid column number. at relativity.jdbc.PackBuffer.getSQLException(Unknown Source) at relativity.jdbc.RPCInterface.handleError(Unknown Source)

Problem What tasks need to be performed before upgrading a v12.x version of Relativity Data Manager to v12.09? Resolution As the v12.09 version of Relativity for the windows environment is now available, we recommend that users upgrade to that version to obtain the latest fixes for Relativity. If Relativity system Data Source Names (DSN’s) have been configured with a previous version of Relativity then these are not removed by the uninstall process. These need to be deleted before the 12.09 version is installed, or the following error will be encountered during the install of the 12.09 product. Install Error:

  Problem What ODBC connection should be used when the Relativity client is on the same machine as the Relativity server? Resolution The ODBC Data server connection should never be used by client applications even if they are on the same machine as the Data server. The Data Server connection is just a way to enable the data client to be able to connect to the Data server or for the administrator to work with the server. Clients should never connect directly to the Data Server ODBC data source. A client ODBC data source must be configured on the server and the clients then use the Relativity client ODBC data source. To configure