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I search a way to define in a excel-cell a formel and had problem to do this or to recognize this field/cell as formel Send data, text, date, values is not a problem. The given example "excel.cbl" is not very exhaustive, in msexcel.cpy are many information, but i don't have found the correct solution. Who is interessed to exchange information on the excel/office integration? who can help me for formel? (not managed cobol)

Hi, I wanted to check it's okay to have Net Express 5.1 and Visual COBOL 9.0 installed on the same laptop? Will initially be using VC native code and still supporting out Net Express application so I wasn't sure there will not be an issue with the rts. Thanks

I originally created this post a while ago : How to set Paper Size being passed from Printer Selection , and I never got it to work. Here is my code: PREPARE-PRINTER-WITH-STANDARD-PRINTER-DIALOG. CALL "P$SETDIALOG" USING PrintDialog. CALL "P$DisplayDialog". IF DIALOG-RETURN = 0    move SET-DEFAULT-PRINTER to default-option    move dpb-len of MyDefaultPrinterBrowser to dp-len    move dpb-body of MyDefaultPrinterBrowser(1:dp-len) o dp-body    call "PC_PRINTER_SET_DEFAULT" using by value default-option                                                                 by reference MyDefaultPrinter     PERFORM OPEN-PRINTER-PARA END-IF. What I would like to do is grab what was changed in the Windows Printer selection box, and have it prin

I am having an issue running a single program in my project.  I had made some changes to the WPF screen, and in the code as well. When I compile and run my software - when I execute my software, and select the program I changed from the menu, I get the below error message.  MicroFocus.COBOL.COBOLRuntimeException HResult=0x80131600 Message=198 Load failure [Program has an incompatible codepage dependency "PR450000" is using codepage Western European (Windows) but the main program "MSIMenu.App" is using Unicode (UTF-8) Please see documentation for more information.] I am not sure how to fix this - both my menu and the program being called (PR45000) both have this code in my WPF Screen  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> So I am not sure why it is saying this, and when I run any other program that is in the project - they all work correctly.  Where is it seeing that I have the codepage set to Western Europe (Windows) ?

Hello, I have a small C# application from a vendor that allows me to communicate with and receive data from an ID document scanner. I've already managed to "translate" some parts to Visual Cobol but there are others that give some errors in the conversion. Would it be possible for you to help me with this conversion? Thanks. Alberto Ferraz

I need to call an API written in C# in out Micro Focus COBOL application.  I found this post very helpful  RE: Tutorial or example for calling a URL and processing the response  one thing though the call needs to ba a POST with input in JSON I can string together the body - but what is the syntax to attach it to the request?

I have a program that runs from the command prompt from my program.  This is the command:  cmd.exe /C cscript //nologo D:\\NEW_MSI\\MSI_DATA\\MakeGuid.vbs > D:\\NEW_MSI\\MSI_DATA\\myguid.txt I am using CALL "SYSTEM" USING WS-CMD-LINE to run the command. (the command above is placed in WS-CMD-LINE before the call to "SYSTEM". The command works great from a dos prompt, but when I use it in my program - it does not work at all. The myguid.txt file is never generated.  Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can get this to work? 

Knowing that Visual Cobol for Eclipse is not compatible with DialogSystem instructions. If I would like to adapt a COBOL program that uses DialogSystem, is there any example or document that explains how it should be done? Is there in VC for Eclipse any tool similar to DS that facilitates the migration?

I inherited a substantial application written in Micro Focus COBOL.  I need to make changes to the way the connection strings are used.  I sniffed through the code - and found 22 (!) with CONNECT USING statements.  The application contains hundreds of programs, each compiled and deployed individually, with a handful of EXEC SQL statements - and as far as I can tell every one of them has no problem getting to the database.  How are all the other programs connecting?

The setup stops with an error message indicating that another version of Visual COBOL (or COBOL Server) is already installed and should be uninstalled first.  Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000007637#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Hi!  I am playing around with the software, trying to update our conversion programs to no longer use Database Connectors.   In my program I have an input file that is an RM\\COBOL ISAM file, and when I run the program, it is giving me a 9+,00 error code.  I have tried adding the  $SET  DIALECT(RM)  FILETYPE(21) command to the beginning of the program to let the program know that I am using an RM\\COBOL file, BUT, when I do that, the embedded SQL commands are no longer recognized by the compiler, and I can't get the program to compile.  Is there a way to do this, or am I stuck using Database Connectors for my conversion programs? 

Hello, I am trying by all means to establish a connection to a SQL Server database, I supposedly connect but cannot see the data in a table. These are the errors: connection to the database establishedError: It is not possible to Access the Province TableError code: -00000000208Description Error: The object name 'province' is not valid Please can someone help me. Thank you. #VisualCOBOL#SQL

Hi Gents,Any experiences using msodbc and unixODBC on RHEL  with VisualCOBOL8 on RHEL to connect SQL2012?   We are currently experiencing DB reconnect issues to our SQL2012 with our COBOL 8 programs on RHEL8 , using using msodbcsql18 and unixODBC2.3.11 .It was working before with the same COBOL source codes on RHEL6, COBOL5express, using msodbcsql11 and unixODBC2.3.0.Thanks

I am using VS Code to code Visual COBOL. And one of my programs will require to connect to DB2 (MySQL Workbench). As per my research, I need to have ODBC to apply the OpenESQL in microfocus. But as I was trying to compile my cobol program, I am hitting an error saying: error COBCH0149 : No SQL directives have been set. But on the upper part i have declared $SET SQL.  I also tried updating the default directives to include sql, i am still getting COBCH0149 error. #VisualStudioCode

I was trying to connect to DB2 using ODBC.  When i try to compile my program on VSCode, I am getting COBCH0149 No SQL directives have been set. But before compiling I have set the default directives to include SQL also I have set the value before the identification division. $SET SQL I tried to include other directives like below: $SET SQL(INIT DB=PSDB2CONN PASS=postgres.****) Error:  COBCH0053 : Directive DB=PSDB2CONN invalid or not allowed here.#VisualStudioCode#DB2#DB2.Connect

Looking at documentation for Visual Cobol in Visual Studio 2019/2022 in Developing Applications in the IDE > Building Cobol Applications > Compiling Cobol Applications > Using Preprocessors > Additional Preprocessor In the section Specifying an additional preprocessor there is a note: Note: It is not possible to combine the "Micro Focus - EHTML Preprocessor" and "Micro Focus - XML Preprocessor" with other preprocessors. Selecting one of these preprocessors will prevent you from adding any other additional preprocessors. See Integrating Preprocessors into Visual COBOL for instructions about how to integrate an additional preprocessor with the list in Visual COBOL. My first question is, where is the section "Integrating Preprocessors into Visual COBOL"? Searching for it gives nothing useful. My second question if this is the case, what are the recommendations for code that handles both oracle (with pro*cobol) and XML (using the XML preprocssor)? Some ex

We have recently upgraded to docker image of Visual Cobol DevHub 8.0 (Patch Update 9) from DevHub 7. and we are getting below error when while calling .int compiled module. execution error : file 'server/bin/module.int'error code: 40, pc=5F, call=1, seg=0 40 National Language Initialization not set up correctly I have verified that LANG is set as en_us which is available in /opt/microfocus/VisualCOBOL/LANG folder. Please suggest the solution to resolve this issue.#VisualCOBOL#MicroFocus

When we log into our software - the program is giving us an 9D,18 error.  According to the documentation, that means that "An Error occurred when creating the primary key for a secondary table". But when I get this error - that is not what is going on in the software - we are just opening and reading files.  I also found that the 9D,18 error could mean that both types of SQL Authentication is being run in the ACUFH.TXT file.  That is not the case here either.   Can anyone help with this error? Our customer is dead in the water until we get this fixed. 

HelloI am trying to install Micro Focus Enterprise Developer 9.0 on Windows Server 2022, but I have an issue. I have checked all requirements stated in documentation related to windows installation, everything is fine. The error is :"Service 'Micro Focus Directory Server' () failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient priviledes to start system services."I launch the script in both non-administrator and administrator, leading to the same error.I check online for community solution, I tried this one : https://community.rocketsoftware.com/discussion/service-micro-focus-directory-server-mf-ccitcp2-failed-to-start#bm7df637c8-eff8-47e1-93c3-32607081f8ff.Without any success.Version of "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistribuable" installed (x86 & x64) is 2022 - 14.38.33135.0 Here's the log file:/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/265/Micro_5F00_Focus_5F00_Enterprise_5F00_Developer_5F00_for_5F00_Eclipse_5F00_20240219152933.log Is there anything that can be done

We've created a short series of videos on using COBOL Profiler, a feature of OpenText Micro Focus Visual COBOL. Profiler helps you analyze performance of your COBOL application, by reviewing statistics gathered during execution. Profiler can gather these statistics without the need for program changes. With Profiler, you can do things like: Figure out which portion of your application is taking the most CPU time (or, Elapsed time) to execute. This can be seen at the level of COBOL Programs in a multi-program application, or down at the level of COBOL paragraphs and sections within a program Help discover where performance bottlenecks are that might be affecting your migration to a different product version or platform Accumulate statistics across multiple application executions, so that you can summarize performance when running with varying tests and data   Links to the videos: Visual COBOL: Introduction to Micro Focus COBOL Profiler Visual COBOL: Profiler Advanced Usage V

Hi, our company works with Visual cobol and COBSQL preprocessor for Informix. We are testing to change to Visual cobol and openESQL and we have found that if a cursor  is named with a host variable  the program gives and compilation error. we has discover that If we change de cursor to a "prepare" compilation is ok, but in our instalation there are a lot of programs with this kind of declarations, and having to change it is a problem There are some way to avoid the compilation error without change the code of the program? something like a compilation directive, and OpenESQL Preprocessor Options, an upgrade of the openSQL...? This is an example of code: declaration of the host variable to name the cursor            exec sql begin declare section end-exec                  01  sql-cursor        pic x(30).            exec sql en

Hi, We currently have Microfocus Visual Cobol version 6.0. Can it be upgraded directly to version 9.0 or it has to go from 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, then 9.0? Kind regards, Sar

I have a very serious problem with Visual Cobol and Visual Studio 22, I made a project and a solution, I have a code to connect with MySql and insert record, everything worked until I had to renew the visual studio license, from that moment on it does not You can insert records, but if I can consult the records from the database, no error occurs, it displays the record inserted correctly in the message. From that moment on, I started reinstalling MySql, Visual Studio, Visual Cobol, several times, the last installation of Visual Cobol was done wrong, now it won't let me uninstall it completely. I have started with a great desire to learn Cobol and I have this problem that I don't know how to solve. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you#VisualCOBOL

Hi Apologies if this is not the right place for this. I am unable to access the code translation site cs2cobol.microfocuscloud.com  It is saying the cert expired on 1/2/2024.  I tried on Firefox and Microsoft Edge on Windows 10.  There is an option to accept the risk and continue to the site but I would rather not risk it.  Firefox says the issue is most likely with the website. Is there anything that can be done to resolve this?  An alternative site perhaps? Thank you Brendan

We currently use a third-party spell-checking software with one of our COBOL applications. The COBOL program makes a call to this third-party software at run time. This third-party spell-checking software, however, is no longer supported. I wanted to know if anyone knows of a spell-checking software that can be utilized with our COBOL application. We currently use Visual COBOL version 9 with Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022. Our operating systems are Windows 10 Desktop and Windows 2022 Server. Thanks in advance.