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HI, I have many question to post because I returned to Cobol years later. The most important question regards the database pre-compiler. In particular: 1) With EXEC SQL Can I set isolation level and begin transaction ? 2) How Can I test if an insert or updated does not succeed because of constraints violations? 3) If I set autocommit disabled in SQl properties can I use commit and rollback ? 4) To set a null value it is sufficient move -1 to :name-fileld-null  ? Claudio  #EXECSQL

set ExcelApp to new Application() set ExcelWorkBook to ExcelApp::Workbooks::Add(1) set ExcelWorkSheet to ExcelWorkBook::Sheets[1] as type Worksheet set ExcelWorkSheet::Cells[1,1] to "test" invoke ExcelWorkBook::SaveAs("C:\\temp\\test1.xlsx") invoke ExcelWorkBook::Close() invoke ExcelApp::Quit()   The above code works in C#, not sure what is going on with Visual Cobol.  I get #VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution

Hi, I have the following code that encrypts and then i can un-encrypt this file, which works file with text files i.e. readable characters. However if i try to do this with a stored printed data file that contains unreadable characters it produces garbage. Is there any way to do this using this .NET class? method-id "EncryptFile" public static. 01 ls-fsInput type "System.IO.FileStream". 01 ls-fsEncrypted type "System.IO.FileStream". 01 ls-des type "System.Security.Cryptography.DESCryptoServiceProvider". 01 ls-desencrypt type "System.Security.Cryptography.ICryptoTransform". 01 ls-cryptostream type "System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoStream". 01 ls-bytearrayinput type "System.Byte" occurs any. 01 ls-len binary-long. 01 ls-ToBase64Transform type "System.Security.Cryptography.ToBase64Transform". procedure division using by value lnk-inputfile as string lnk-Outputfile as string lnk-key as string. set ls-fsInput

I'm converting this C# statement to COBOL:  if (view.FocusedColumn.FieldName == "CityCode" && view.ActiveEditor is DevExpress.XtraEditors.LookUpEdit) For the COBOL statement, I'm using: if view::FocusedColumn::FieldName = "CityCode" and view::ActiveFilter = type Devexpress.XtraEditors.LookupEdit I get an error on "view::ActiveFilter = type Devexpress.XtraEditors.LookupEdit".  LookuEdit is a class.  How do I check for the ActiveFilter's type ?#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution

Hi All, Just checking if any one from MF has read my previous post concerning this matter? If so : is it possible / not possible? Would really appreciate an answer. Thanks Neil.

Dear Sir, We are using File Share with Visual Cobol 2.2.1 for Eclipse and we get Always  the same error 9/124 don´t matter that we put on the Server and Client definition. Our Server is en AIX 7.1 and our Client is in Windows 7 Any Help ? Thanks, PJM

i tried installing visual cobol on my windows 8.1 and i get the errror message 0x80070642 user cancelled installation can anyone help. i am installing it as an add on to visual studion 2013.

Dear Sirs, We are installing Visual Cobol Server in Windows 7 and we get the  error enclosed. Many Thanks, PJM

I've set up a very simple Console Application project in Visual Studio running Visual COBOL 2.2. Program1 initializes a group level redefine and then passes it to Program2. In Program2, it appears that the field within the group that was not used in Program1 was not actually initialized. Why would this be? I expect the second display in Program2 to show PROGRAM2, FIELD-2B is empty. However, it shows the field has the value "ST" unless the second display in Program1 is uncommented. PROGRAM-ID. PROGRAM1. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 GROUP-1. 02 FIELD-1 PIC X(4). 01 GROUP-2 REDEFINES GROUP-1. 02 FIELD-2A PIC X(2). 02 FIELD-2B PIC X(2). PROCEDURE DIVISION. MOVE "TEST" TO GROUP-1. INITIALIZE GROUP-2. DISPLAY "PROGRAM1, FIELD-2A: " FIELD-2A. * Uncomment the following display to see FIELD-2A passed to PROGRAM2 initialized * DISPLAY "PROGRAM1, FIELD-2A: " FIELD-2B. CALL "PROGRAM2" USING GROUP-1. GOBAC

I have Visual Cobol Personal Edition I had an Internet outage on my Win/8 laptop and could not open Project1 (I am trying to 'get started' with this product) Once the connection was made true again, I could open Project1 Why is that?  

Is there a way to tell Eclipse that Echo is a reserved word for Accept Statements, which it is for RM Cobol (Until I remove them all). Either Eclipse tells me that every ECHO is an error, or I add Echo to the Working Storage, which makes Eclipse happy, but then the Program won't build because I have a Reserved Word in Working Storage ... I can ignore the Error messages for ECHO, but we have a prompt heavy system, and I won't be able to use Eclipses find error features. I just need to tell Eclipse that ECHO is ok, for now. #SyntaxErrors#rm#VisualCOBOL#Eclipse

I am running windows 8.1 with Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. When I try to install Visual Cobol I am getting the following errors 0x80048bc7. Am I correct in assuming that VS2013 is the cause of my issue?

I'm currently working in a project to run COBOL applications in windows 7 and windows 8.  The application runs flawless in windows 7 but I cant make it work in windows 8. Any idea how to deal with this?#COBOL#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION

Getting this error on installation after I have switch development laptops.  Current VC version is 2.2.01220. Is there an update to the COBOL server that I need for the client or another issue. Thanks Kevin Peters

Greetings, I had recently requested a download of Visual Cobol. However when I clicked on the link I was taken to a 404-error page. When I reported this back to the origination email an automated response directed me here for assistance....

You should have received the license files as part of your order. These files have the format xxxxxxx.mflic. Save this file to the machine where they must be installed.                         Open the License Administrator, go to the “Install” tab, browse the mflic file, click on Open and then Install Licenses. Alternatively, you can drag/drop the mflic file onto the license file box or copy/paste the licenses into the box below: If the license is successfully imported, you should get the following message: You should now be able to see the license installed in the Summary tab: If in the future you need to move the license to another station, just click on Remove and the license will be uninstalled.   If you have concurrent licenses installed in a server and you need to point the clients to the server, please follow these steps from the client machine: 1. Open the License Administrator> go to Options> Advanced C

in Visual Basic to improve readability of code you can define regions like #Region "Tab1_Instructions" method-id read... method-id write... etc. #End Region which are collapsible. Is there an equivalent in Visual Cobol? Just collapsing methods is no real alternative.#region

Hi, I'm an SW architect and we are moving our legacy cobol to Visual Cobol under Jboss. This legacy application has a custom persistence layer which is generated using a custom tool. Which are my options if I want to remove this custom persistence layer? Hibernate? OpenESQL? Isn't there something like hibernate for Cobol? Thank you, Mats

Is there any method in Visual COBOL to do Code Page converison for File CP1250(windows code page) to CP852 (DOS code page). Thanks, Partha!#VisualCobolManaged#VisualCOBOL#COBOLOrion#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution#eclipsevisualcobolvariablesviewencoding#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION#COBOLFILE#COBOL#VisualCobolwithEclpiseunderSUSE13.1

Is there away to install the Visual Cobol documention into the Visual Studio 2012 IDE? I have downloaded 2 files from the MicroFocus website, one has a .jar extention and the other a .chm extension but I can't figure how to install either one into the IDE. The webbased training shows it installed in Visual Studio 2010 but 2012 is different.   Thanks

I am going through the Web based training. In module 1 Visual Cobol Getting Started there are 3 DEMO's listed in the table of contents, but when I select any of them nothing happens, the area to the right of the screen is blank. Am I missing something?   Thanks

I don’t get the correct format when binding a decimal value in a DataGrid Column with ConverterCulture=de-CH. I think that the resulting format is correct for Germany but not for Switzerland. Can anybody help?

Hello - we're considering a webinar series focusing on OO COBOL for use in .NET and JVM. We'd look to start from the ground up, covering basic concepts through to UI modernization.  If you'd attend such a webinar series please state that in the attached poll. Many thanks [Poll]

I have a subprogram that uses the functions             call-convention 66 is dynamicWINAPI             call-convention 74 is cc74 but to include it in .NET project has an error             call cc74 'FindFirstFileA'                 by using reference findFileName                       by reference WIN32-FIND-DATA                 returning fileSearchHandle How to solve this problem?

I'm starting the progress of migrating RM Cobol (Linux) to RM Cobol/Visual Cobol(Linux) with Eclipse (Windows) I've discovered the option to set the compiler directives in a file cobol.dir and have that control some of the compile, build and file options. I was wondering what is the compiler directive for the cobol.dir to tell it to use RM. I know its completely lazy, because I can change the Dialect in the Build Properties ... but I'm intending of doing somewhere north of 1600 programs, and anything that will allow me to move these from RM with a Text DE to RM with a Visual IDE would be helpful. I know my cobol.dir is working because I've moved the idxformat"21" to it for RM File access, as opposed to having the set command in the programs. Any tips for how to accomplish this ... any warnings for doing it this way? Long Term the plan is to move from RM Text DE to RM Eclipse to VC Eclipse ... but for now I need to learn Eclipse and start using it regularly which will involve me gett