Rocket® RM/COBOL

My legacy code generates a lot of long reports targeted at printers that used mono-spaced fonts to get all the column alignments right. Usually this was Courier. I would rather print to PDF as most of these reports are reviewed and disposed of almost immediately. I am moving the system to Windows and have found that I can print to PDF using the built in "Microsoft Print to PDF" driver. The problem is that they print with a proportional font and the columns don't line up and a few characters on a few lines go off the right side of the page. I would guess the font is Arial. Is there a config file that I can edit/create to change this font? I know there are 3rd party tools that bring in a whole slew of additional features, but that would require me to review and edit dozens of reports. Thanks, Brian

Problem: If the RM/COBOL runtime, or, compiler abnormally terminate, then, the use counting mechanism can become corrupt.  This scenario will cause any future instances of the runtime/compiler to fail with a "unauthorized use message (loc 810). Resolution: The full text of the Loc 810 error is : System function error (Loc 810) - Semaphore OK but shared memory marked bad.The "rmucutil" utility will show that there is a shared memory issue. Either reboot or reset the locked "shared memory" to resolve the problem.Below is the syntax for the "rmucutil" utility, located in your RM/COBOL installation directory:rmucutil xx-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxx runtime|compiler detailsThe "rmucutil" utility will show that there is a shared memory issue. If the output shows there is a shared memory or semaphore issue, you can clear shared memory and semaphores manually if the ipcs (for Inter Process Communication Status) commands are available on your operati

I’m very pleased to announce the availability of RM/COBOL® 12.21.This latest AMC product release enables our COBOL developers to build, deploy and modernize existing RM/COBOL applications using the latest technologies and operating environments.Key Release Highlights include:Support added for a 64-bit Relativity Designer and Relativity DBA. Support added for a 64-bit Relativity Data Manager on Windows. Relativity Designer enhancement RMNet support for redirectionFor a full list of product updates, please see the product release notes. This latest release of RM/COBOL is now available for order within Sales Force.  Existing on-maintenance customers may also download the latest version from the Rocket Software Customer Community.  RM/COBOL 12.21 provides important maintenance updates for critical COBOL business systems and carries with it our commitment of continued support for RM/COBOL users and their core business applications.If you have any questions about this product release, please

Hi, I'm running a program with an old version of the RM/COBOL runtime. After the recent Windows 11 update (08-2025), the runtime no longer works with the following error: "Cannot load RMGUIFE.DLL..." (see attached file). Has anyone encountered this problem? Is there a new compatible runtime? Where can I get information on purchasing one? I tried submitting a contact request on the website form, but received no response.Thanks------------------------------Simone TrezziRocket Software Forum Member------------------------------

Hi, I starting using Instantsql with RM 12.17 and Mysql 9.3 for a backend DB. My question is how to configure or defines length of VARCHAR and LONGVARCHAR?. What I've test the max length is 257 characters. How to extent the length of these parameters?. .Also I'd like to know how to handle Json data or can I use an equivalent data item?. Thanks in advance for any help.------------------------------Humberto BetancurRocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

Hi to Everybody The OS is Windows Server 2022 and I'd like to know if I can use the Instantsql version 12.17 that comes with rmcobol 32 bits with ODBC drivers 64 Bits. If not is there any available Instantsql version for 64 bits. Can I buy only that one. Thanks in advance.------------------------------Humberto BetancurRocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

COBOL remains a cornerstone of global business operations powering 70% of the world's business transaction processing across industries such as banking, insurance, travel, retail, and government. However, running COBOL that has not been modernized – combined with outdated engineering tools and practices – can slow innovation, increase operational risk, and expose systems to today's security threats. Organizations with COBOL at their core can no longer afford to operate on outdated applications and systems or take unnecessary, expensive risks with application rewrite projects.  However, for many people, COBOL's reputation is clouded by a number of persistent myths and misunderstandings – even those familiar with COBOL may still judge it based on how it looked and operated over 30 years ago. Join us for a LinkedIn Live event on COBOL modernization without myths and outdated perception. Learn why COBOL remains vital to global businesses and how Rocket Software products enable modernizatio

I have below scenario.  Input File <<input_file.txt>> 0005abcde                                                                ====> Record1 0020abcdefghijklmnopqrst                                   =====> Record2 Each record has 2 part: Part#1          4 digit records length (ex: 0005) Part#2        Actual Data (ex: abcde) How the FD section should be defined in such case ? ------------------------------Swapnil GuptaSenior Application DeveloperPharmacy Data Management, Inc.Youngstown US------------------------------

Hi, What is the meaning of Loc 521? Error invoking unauthorized copy of compiler. Use count exceeded (Loc 521). Internal Compiler Error: -1 Regards, ------------------------------Juan Manuel UrraburuDirector, Information TechnologyProRM UruguayMontevideo UY------------------------------

I have been programming in RmCobol for many years. But I am using Version 5, 32 bits. It is a problem for me now, I need a compiler with runtime compatible that can runs in 64 bits, no matter how old is. Any help will be appreciated. ------------------------------Rafael MotaRocket Software Forum Member------------------------------

Excited to be sharing some of the highlights from the recent COBOL Days in Australia! Two COBOL Day events took place last week: one on Wednesday in Melbourne, and one on Thursday in Sydney. Twenty five customers and partners running ACUCOBOL and Visual COBOL joined the Rocket team to learn more about the future of COBOL and the latest features now available. Happy to have gotten positive feedback from customers and partners, we hope to see everyone again soon.  Thank you to those who participated, and to everyone else - please look forward to more events like this in the future.  ------------------------------Martyna UleviciuteCustomer Community Managermuleviciute@rocketsoftware.com------------------------------

Can any one  help, with  the  "RUNTIME COMPILER"   variables   needed for this command  ( I have the registration/licence  number )  Usage: RMUCUTIL xx-aaaa-sssss-nnnn {RUNTIME | COMPILER} [DETAILS] or: RMUCUTIL OSTYPE [DETAILS]   All my best guesses, do not work. I can not find, a practical example on where to get the variables. I am running on this  a Red hat 64 bit linux, that went  into production  last weekend. Has twice recorded  "Error invoking unauthorized copy of runtime.  AH01215: Use count exceeded (Loc 813) "  on apache processes Cobol locks after recording  the error.   A  manual count of the Cobol processes in use (  ps  | grep runcobol | wc -l) ,  is well under  the licence count  purchased.       

Looking for assistance in using CodeBridge to call several Windows routines, GetFileTime, FindFirstFileA, ShellExecuteA. Need to define copy code to match C header file parameters, like LPCSTR, LPWIN32_FIND_DATAA. Get File Time https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-getfiletime Similar to the Header-to-COPY utility in NetExpress H2cpy.  https://docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle/netexpress_ug_51wrappack1_html/page/prh2cp.htm Planning to use with 64bit RM COBOL 12.20.Thanks, John------------------------------John AukemaSenior Software DeveloperParklane Computer SystemsLondon CA------------------------------

Hi, Two customer running RM/COBOL Runtime version 12 reported this same issue: Error invoking unauthorized copy of runtime. Use count exceeded (Loc 518), running under Windows 11. Any ideas or ways to solve this? Regards, ------------------------------Juan Manuel UrraburuDirector, Information TechnologyProRM UruguayMontevideo UY------------------------------

I am looking for a job as a RM/COBOL programmer, however, all the offers are for COBOL on Mainframe, if you know of any that require a programmer I am available, I have more than 30 years of experience programming in RM/COBOL, but I do not speak fluent English, only reading and writing.------------------------------Eduardo GonzalezLicenciadoRocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

Hello. I am currently running my software on Windows 2019 server and I am experiencing a serious problem. The CALL SYSTEM instructions are not working, they are ignored on the new platform. Everything was working fine on Windows Server 2009 R2. Below are my instructions and I hope to receive your help in determining the problem. 02 COMP-D.     03 FILLER PIC X(43) VALUE "CMD.EXE /C COPY /Y .\\WG\\WGCOMPA .\\WG\\WGCOMP".     03 COMP-ANO-D PIC 9(4).     03 COMP-MES-D PIC 9(2). 02 ALMC-D.     03 FILLER PIC X(43) VALUE "CMD.EXE /C COPY /Y .\\WG\\WGALMC .\\WG\\WGALMC".     03 ALMC-ANO-D PIC 9(4).     03 ALMC-MES-D PIC 9(2). 02 MAES-D.     03 FILLER PIC X(43) VALUE "CMD.EXE /C COPY /Y .\\WG\\WGMAEST .\\WG\\WGMAES".     03 MAES-ANO-D PIC 9(4).     03 MAES-MES-D PIC 9(2). 02 TRAN-D.      03 FILLER PIC X(43) VALUE

I have inherited a largish RM/COBOL ERP system with about 900 .COB files and 150 .DAT files. I know a number of different languages and I am familiar with the business, but I have no previous experience with COBOL. I find lots of COBOL help documents on the web but little of it is RM/COBOL specific.  Finding and bringing an outside developer up to speed on our company and programs will take time and money. So I need to decide between the two options of hiring or doing it myself. I charge the company by the hour so I think that part is a wash for the company. Thanks for any suggestions.

I am moving a bunch of programs from Unix to Windows and have found that there is a 130 character limit for the using keyword vs 250 on Unix machines. That is randomly breaking things. Is there some workaround for this? Brian

Greetings Micro Focus Community! We use RM/Cobol with the WOW Extension Designer. There are three functions that are pretty commonly referenced in our applications called WOWSETPROP, WOWGETPROP, and AXDOMETHOD. I see they use a variety of parameters/methods like 'SortColumn', 'ListIndex',  'Text', etc. Does anyone know if there is documentation out there for all of the available parms for WOWSETPROP, WOWGETPROP, and AXDOMETHOD?

Hi, I have postgres installed in linux and have my dsn setup as below odbc.ini[db]Description = PostgreSQL connection to 'db' databaseDriver = PostgreSQLDatabase = dbServername = localhostUserName = dbPassword = passwordTrace = YesTraceFile = /logfilepathPort = actualportnumbr#Protocol = #ReadOnly = No#RowVersioning = No#ShowSystemTables = No#ShowOidColumn = No#FakeOidIndex = No#ConnSettings = When I am logged in as myself, [me@myip ]$ isql db db pass(from dsn) -v  SQL> drop table test1;[08S01]Could not send Query(connection dead);Could not send Query(connection dead)[ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLExecuteSQL> quit But when I am logged as root [root@myip]# isql db db pass(from dsn) -v SQL> drop table test1; is success OR just login with db without explicitly specifying username/pass [root@myip]# isql db  -vSQL> drop table test1; is success SQL> SELECT rolname, rolsuper, rolcreaterole, rolcreatedb, rolcanlogin FROM pg_roles; +-----------

We have RM installed on an older server and we are trying to update/upgrade the server so it was decided we would stand up a new server and install COBOL from scratch on it. the server its on currently is an old fedora build, and the new one is Debian 12 32bit. we have tried to install on ubuntu 20.4, fedora 40, and now debian 12 32 bit and every time it will run the install.sh file and say        RM/COBOL Installation ___________________________ (press system cancel key to abort) Operating system detected: and then just crash out to the terminal. would it be due to it being too old of a version of RM to work on the new system? or is it only good for one install? any ideas????? file systems are ext4. #RMCOBOL#RMCobol

I have a question on RM/COBOL program(s) and its relation to CPU usage.  I have around 10 Cobol programs use to run for long on Linux machine. Linux machine has 8 CPUs. I noticed all programs is trying to use 1-2 CPU while other remain unutilized. Programs are running slow. Is there way to optimized CPUs usage so that 1 RM/COBOL program run per CPU?  #Linux#RM/COBOL

I am trying to use 2 below copybooks.   SGUPTA     COPY "lixmlall.cpy".            == > standard xml copybook T01153     COPY "XXXBUF.CPY".              == > Internal copybook.   I place tdhem just before the linkage section. But kept on getting error like   170651    973767   SGUPTA     XML INITIALIZE                               $   $ >>>>>   1) 0465: E Verb expected. (scan suppressed). >>>>>   2) 0005: I Scan resumed.   170653             SGUPTA     XML GET UNIQUEID    &

Problem Who provides support for the BIS-Express web application generator for Xcentrisity Business Information Server(XBIS)? Resolution   BIS-Express is an application and web service generator designed to work with Micro Focus' Xcentrisity Business Information Server software.  This application generation solution is supported, and distributed, by England Technical Services (ETS). Below is a link to their home page:               http://showcase.netins.net/web/etsinc/index.html   Note:   The standard Xcentrisity BIS product is supported by Micro Focus; however the specific syntax of BIS Express or issues relating to the use of BIS Express are supported by ETS. #BISExpress#RMCOBOL

We are on RMCobol v 12.17 32 bit. We are trying to make sure that LCS can read Environment Variables from a Windows Machine to be used by code. Code should successfully read the following 2 environment variables HOMEDRIVE HOMEPATH Code should concatenate those 2 values, and code should then be able to use that single value as the new location to be used instead of any hardcoded references to the current drive.  I am trying to find the function code for the GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableExA function.  Do either of you have any idea where I can find this? Is it available in 12.17?        GetPrivateProfileInt code is WF03A        GetPrivateProfileString code is WF03B.        GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableExA?