Rocket® RM/COBOL

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 29 June 2011]Hello guys,I am new here, and I come here loaded with a "problem" that needs solved somehow.This is the brief:I am myself a consultant/programmer/sysadmin, and I have been trying to help a friend of mine with an application he has running in an old Xenix 3.2.4 system, in an old 386, since 1990 !!!!!!!!!! (original disk!!!!)We have managed to put the hard disk into another old system, and with knoppix we did a "dd" of the disk through NFS into my linux laptop, and also burned a few copies to CDrom. I then managed to extract the files (the Xenix file system spec is actually wrong in one spot and it took us a while to figure that out), and I have the tarball and also the full file system (complete) with all the files available, and properly untarred, without corruption. Took me and some other genius buddy of mine 3 months to figure t

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 06 February 2012]Hi, I have generated a web site and I want access rmcobol program, this program is native dll, but I´dont know, set environment rm variable in order to works with rm files. This program native rm works ok with windows-forms.Please give me step by step what i can do in order to solve my problem.Thank youCAMILO CRUZ

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 January 2012]Hi!I currently need a way to be able to see if a directory exists out on the server before a file is created.I cannot use the DIR command with "SYSTEM", DIR always returns a a exit code of 0.Any suggestions??Thanks!

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 15 July 2011]Could anyone give me an example of: how to read indexed files of RM-Cobol with Visual Cobol. My e-mail is jose61@pryma.wsThanks:Sincereley: Jose Manuel Guevara

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 31 January 2011]HiHas anyone experienced a problem with Forms with a Dialog border (Property "Border=Dialog") showing differently in Windows 7 to XP/Win2000/98 etc? The problem we are seeing is an additional 4-5 pixels appearing at the bottom and right hand side of the form - making the form appear unbalanced and poorly designed! The additional pixels do not show in the WOW designer, only at runtime. The following screenshots show a form (with a yellow background) and a Group control filling all the form in the designer. When run in Windows 7, the result is completely different to the Designer and other Windows versions. You will notice that the runtime appears to add a small border (1 pixel) around the form in XP too - but at least it is balanced!licensing.mardak.co.uk/.../wowdesigner.gif

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 04 May 2011]HiI realise that this is now the current forum for RM related issues/questions, but "read only" access to the old forum would still be useful.The old forum contains a number of solutions, fixes, and ideas that still have relevance to the RM community. Just removing access to the old forum seems a bit drastic!Any thoughts?Nigel

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 August 2011]Old Cobol objects RM/COBOL Runtime – Version 7.00.03 for 32bit Windows (9x/Me/NT/TS/2K). This is old Cobol and the user would like to move to 64bit Windows. Can a run-time be purchased? Would the source code have to be recompiled? (I am afraid that over the past 20 years some source/object issues would occur). Can the existing objects run in a 64bit environment? Any help would be appreciated. Michael

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 01 August 2011]I did put CALLFH(ACUFH) on Aditional Directives and gave me this error:Error COBCH0865 : Failed to find system program 'ACUFH'. Could some bodie tell me what this mean.Thanks: Manuel Guevarajose61@pryma.ws

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 14 June 2011]I have installed the vcobol and I am doing tests.When you import a source of rmcobol'm trying to put "addicional directives" as stated in the manual. But i don't know that put on this site.To set properties and directives on a single fileIn the Navigator view, right-click the file to change. Click Properties. Click COBOL Settings. Check Enable file specific settings. Click in the Additional directives field and type the directives to be used when compiling this file. Separate each directive with a space. Click OK. To specify whether or not to compile the file, right-click the file and click Build Action > Compile or Build Action > Ignore as required. By default, files with a .cbl extension are compiled. Parent topic: How to...What do I put here (a

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 July 2011]I had been download Visual Cobol R4, UnInstalled Visual Cobol R3 and Installed Visual Cobol R4; but when I open Visual Cobol R4, this sed: "The licence has been expired". Is this posible to gen one trial version for R4?. Thanks for any Help.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 16 June 2011]Hello I have a cobol program with which I read a MySQL database with InstanatSql compiles without errors but the error run the following commands:desrcs@may2:/usr/acct/Inst-InstantSQL/ftes$ runcobol85 sample1.cob L=/usr/acct/Inst-InstantSQL/ftes/libisql.soRM/COBOL Runtime - Version 12.02 for Linux Intel 32-Bit.RM/COBOL Runtime System issued to IT Innovation & Technology S.A. de.Configured for 10 users.Arrendadora RamaCopyright (c) 1985-2008 by Liant Software Corp. All rights reserved.Registration Number: 6E-1000-25620-0010COBOL procedure error 213 (library not found). Error processing library /usr/acct/Inst-InstantSQL/ftes/libisql.so.COBOL procedure error 214 (library not valid). Error starting application sample1.cob.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 17 March 2011]Microfocus will support RM/Cobol till 2014 and there is no end-of-life announcement.What does this mean for future compatibility with new versions of operating systems ?What if the current RM/COBOL V12 is not compatible with a future Microsoft Server release ?Is there going to be a new RM/COBOL version for that ?What happens if customers who use our application with an RM/Cobol V12 runtime wants to upgrade their OS to this new version ? How long will we be able to sell RM/COBOL runtimes (with a support contract) ? Also after 2014 ?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 17 March 2011]I'm RM-Cobol User, have some body a little sample how to create one wpf on Visual Cobol? or on eclipse I like to se how I can access data files with Visual Cobol R3. Another questios is: Any body knows when Visual Cobol R4 will came?, becouse this will be compatible with RM-COBOL Files. Thanks for your help.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 29 March 2011]HiI understand some of the C$ routines are being converted to VC4, along with the RM file handler; but what about the P$ Subprogram library for access to Windows printing features - will that be there too? Also, how does the wow to VC form conversion process work, supplied by ETS - is this a tool to purchase, or is it more complicated than that..?Steven H