One developer wants to do a cross-session animation. The program to animate is running from a "batch" script and cobanimsrv is executed from an interactive session. The COBANIMSRV variables and other COB variables are identical in the script and in the session. cobanimsrc starts and waits as expected. When the script starts and gets to the program to animate, cobanimsrv ends immediately without any message, just a series of blank lines. In the meantime, the program in the script pauses as if it was waiting for instructions from cobanimsrv. Back to the session, we determine the program's process id and issue "anim <pid>". The connection is established at the this point and can proceed with the animation. Any idea why cobanimsrv would start/stop immediately and not connect with the program while a direct "anim" would?

Hello Francois Desrochers,

Thanks for posting to the Micro Focus Community site.

Can you provide some additional background about the product and platform in use? Could you confirm which COBOL product is this, and what version is in use? With your environment set for running COBOL, providing the output of the command "cob -V" may help here.

Also, which Operating System, O/S version and platform?

Finally, is this the first time that cross-session animation has been attempted on a new server or product installation?