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Hi, Is it possible in VISUAL COBOL V2.2 to activate the Cursor postion in Screen Section by a simple clieck over the fields. Still now we are activating the Screen fields using TAB or Arrow Key function. Is there any Mouse Click is permissible to capture 9mainly activate the field) the data from Screen Section of Visual COBOL. #visualcobolreturn-code255#VisualCOBOL#VisualCobolManaged#visualcobolruntimeswitchlinking#VisualCOBOLCOBOLJVMCOBOLandJava#COBOL#VisualCobolwithEclpiseunderSUSE13.1#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution

Dear Chris, We stil have the same problema witk ADISCF in AIX 7.1. When we try toa alter the PFKeys funtion  we didn´t have the same that we have in ADISCF for Windows. Por example in Windows we have PF2, PF8, PF2 but in AIX 7.1 We have PF2,  then PF8 ,But here the PF8 Option have diferent  things like Figure enclosed. Please say to Us How to  do the same that we do in Windows  in AIX 7.1 for alter the PFKey Functions.   Regards,   PJM

Can you tell me what the syntax would be for creating an event that can be called later by an event handler? C# example:        public event EventHandler CloseButtonPressed;

Is there any function is avialable in VISUAL COBOL to calculate the Field-Length. We are actually facing one problem like where cursor is blinked on SCREEN-SECTION we are not able to capture the total length of the Cursor. I have tried with X"A7" feature but no luck. Any idea will be highly appriciated.#COBOL#VisualCobolManaged#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution#Eclipse#COBOLOrion

I would like to place a thread lock around the code below but I'm not sure what the syntax would be in Visual COBOL. Can you help me with the syntax?            IF WS-COMM-FROM-PROGRAM > SPACES             ??Lock             PERFORM VARYING WS-PREV-PROG-ENTRY                FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL WS-PREV-PROG-ENTRY > NAV-MAX-ENTRIES                  IF NAV-PROGRAM-ID (WS-PREV-PROG-ENTRY) =                     WS-COMM-FROM-PROGRAM                     MOVE SPACES TO W

I have just started using Visual Cobol in Microfocus Visual Studio 2012. My code needs to read records and update an array named 'ItemsField' in a web service reference file(See attached Word file for layout of the input file and the web service references file). The array I want to populate is described as having  'occurs any' and is named 'ItemsField' in the web service references file. My question is: How do I add data to this array and update the number of occurs?

Could you please suggest if there any File Comparison Utility Available in VISUAL COBOL 2.2 version. It will be great help also if any such programs can also aviable in this group.#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION#visualcobolreturn-code255#VisualCobolwithEclpiseunderSUSE13.1#COBOLOrion#COBOL#VisualCobolManaged#visualcobolruntimeswitchlinking#eclipseMFcobolconten#COBOLEnterpriseDeveloperSortNavigationExplorer

We do have a visual COBOL solution(contains 9 different projects) which is accessed from a .net application. While building the Visual COBOL solution in release mode, the 9 dlls for each project is created in bin directory of each project. Can you please provide us step by step procedure for deploying the dlls in the COBOL server. Which in turn .net application can access the Visual COBOL dlls, deployed in the COBOL server. Thanks in advance

I have a 01 data field defined as external within a program because the data is used by many programs and I did not want to pass it from program to program (this is a .net project).  When I am in debug mode, I can not do a quickwatch on any field in the data record.  I says 'Unable to evaluate expression'.  Can you not view external defined data area?

I saw a post on how to get MF Visual Cobol to print to a USB printer, instead of the default LPT1. However, it was not as descriptive as I would have hoped. Since I have not worked with Cobol since 1995 and went into the business world using Fortran after that class, I never found the need to set environment variables. I also never used MF Cobol before now. The one post states to create a file called cobconfig.cfg and then set the cobconfig environment variable to point to that file. Well, I have tried a couple of ways on my own and could not get it to set the environment variable of cobconfig and work. Any help that someone can provide in getting the cobconfig environment variable to work in MF Visual Cobol for Visual Studio 2012 would be greatly appreciated. I've looked far and wide on the net and have not yet found any specific help. I did get the old program to work via sending the output to a file, but I want to get it to work as origina

Is there any way to generate KeyStroke programatically to move cursor control to the next field. The same feature was handled by the TAB key. Client's requirement is to validate each of the fileds in the screen and if validation success it automatically highlight the next fileds. During validation control is back to the program level but how again is it possible to retrieve the screen with very next field activated. Please help.#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION#COBOL#COBOLOrion#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution#visualcobolruntimeswitchlinking#VisualCobolManaged

In visual cobol is there a way to trapped the X button on a winform being clicked.  I need to do some processing before closing the window.  Thanks

Hello, I do have an JVMCobol Project with some thousand CobolFiles. The whole stuff is highly integrated with other JavaSources running in a JBOSS Application Server. The problem is the following : - Saving one Cobol-File results in an "ANT-Run" of ".cobolBuild". The Cobol Task does not check if the source file is younger than the generated Classfile. So every file is compiled. This takes a long time, litteraly killing the development process.  Can somebody provide me with the attributes of the : - Cobol-ANTTask -MfFilelist-ANTTask Basically I do have written an build.xml that looks like this : <fileset id="cbl.src.files" dir="src">     <include name="**/VSD138L.CBL"/>    <include name="**/USERVG.CBL"/> </fileset> <!-- ******************************************************************* --> <target name="init"> </target> <target name="compile

Is there an example program available which catches the MouseMove event in a PictureBox to draw a line following the movement and allowing this to be saved as a bitmap. I've seen examples in C# but my knowledge of a possible translation to COBOL is inadequate. Can somebody help me on this? Regards Rainer

Dear Sir, We use adiscf.exe in Visual Cobol for Visual Studio and Visual Cobol for Eclipse without problema. When we go to production environment (AIX 7.1) we try to replicate the same with adiscf for Unix and we noted that adiscf is diferent in AIX, por example en Windows PF2, PF8,PF3  in AIX we have PF2, PF8 but we didn´t find the PF3 option.....   THANks.....   PJM

Problem: Error 1 message is received after launching Micro Focus License Manager. After clicking on OK and trying to install a license Error2 is received. When trying to restart theSentinel RMS License Manager, it does not prompt to also re-start the dependent services of Micro Focus ces Deamon; when trying to manually start Micro Focus ces Deamon Error 3 is received. Error 1: Unable to initialize:  Initialization file line too long. Please check the Advance Configuration under Options. Error 2: Error installing licenses: Error(131) Client library is not in initialized state. Please contact Micro Focus Supportline Error 3: Windows could not start Micro Focus CES daemon on your computer. Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly. RESOLUTION: The formatting of the ces.ini file, which stores the configuration settings for Micro Focus License Manager, has not been setup correctly. You will need to add a carriage return to the last line of the ces.ini file.  After adding t

Hello, I´m trying to implement in Visual COBOL the following code (C#): report.Render("Image", deviceInfo, CreateStream, out warnings);CreateStream is not a dataitem but a function call... that is, a callback function defined previously as: private Stream CreateStream(string name, string fileNameExtension, Encoding encoding, string mimeType, bool willSeek) { Stream stream = new MemoryStream(); m_streams.Add(stream); return stream; } I can´t get the way to translate that type of callback function call as a parameter of a COBOL INVOKE. This is what I tried, but although it compiles, it doesn´t run (null exception): INVOKE informe::Render("Image", deviceInfo, CreateStream, warnings). And this is the definition of my Callback function: delegate-id CreateStreamHandler. procedure division using nombre as string, fileExtension as string, codificacion as type Encoding, mimeType as string, willSeek as condition-value RETURNING stream as type Stream. end de

I have 2 picture strings that seems to be valid per the documentation (coming from ACUCOBOL), but the compiler is giving errors. Any ideas why these are invalid? They are: This one gives error saying "Incompatible qualifiers". PACT-AMOUNT  PIC S9(9)V99  COMP-3 SIGN IS LEADING SEPARATE. This one gives error "PICTURE string has illegal precedence or illegal character" Disp-Comm-Pct                    PIC ZZZ.Z9. Thanks

Hi, Currently our application is running on one server and a cold standby. All in Suse linux Anyone has experience with clustering visual cobol applications?   To be more concrete : I'm looking at multiple servers (at least 3) to be put in a multi-active cluster with shared filesystem (like ocfs or veritas). The cobol applications should then use the same shared filesystem for read write datafile manipulations. Some sort of load balancer in front of the applications. thanks.#COBOL#multi

Hi, I know it is possible to access RM/COBOL indexed files from a Visual COBOL Console app and that this app can be called by a Managed VC app. But is it possible to use RM/COBOL indexed files directly from Managed code? If not, are you planning to add that support? It is crucial to move apps into Visual COBOL. Regards#RMCOBOLfiles#VisualCobolManaged

We are converting some GCOS (Bull) mainframe programs to work on a Microfocus platform. I have a lot of calls for this particular item. The variable is defined as pic x, and 0 is moved to it, Alphanumeric check. But in the mainframe code (in lots of places) this value is checked against zero (the word, numeric value). In microfocus COBOL this is false, but in GCOS it is true. If I change this: IF IN-STATUS NOT = ZERO GO TO 580-GET-OUT to this: IF IN-STATUS NOT = "0" GO TO 580-GET-OUT it works in Microfocus (probably for GCOS too, I didn't specifically check). The second statement is true in GCOS. Is there a setting for the program which will allow "0" to be checked against ZERO or 0?

I have this code working in VB.NET and I am migrating to VC2010. NET. Unfortunately I'm having trouble with this function. How would this code?     Sub Decrypt(ByVal Doc As XmlDocument, ByVal Alg As RSA, ByVal KeyName As String)        ' Check the arguments.          If KeyName Is Nothing Then            Throw New ArgumentNullException("KeyName")        End If        ' Create a new EncryptedXml object.        Dim exml As New EncryptedXml(Doc)        ' Add a key-name mapping.        ' This method can only decrypt documents        ' that present the specified key name.      &n

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Another error: An exception of type 'MicroFocus.COBOL.COBOLRuntimeException' occurred in MicroFocus.COBOL.Runtime.dll but was not handled in user codeAdditional information: 198     Load failure [Program has an incompatible codepage dependency "ClassLibrary1.GET_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE" is using codepage Unicode (UTF-8) but the main program "ASP.logon_aspx" is using Western European (Windows) Please see documentation for more information.] I have opened LOGON.aspx in Visual Studio, selected Advanced Save Options in the File menu, and changed the character set to UTF-8. this was also done to all other cbl files in the solution. I also set the compiler directive SOURCE-ENCODING"UTF8" in the project. I am still getting the error on ASP.LOGON_aspx, which I am assuming is the generated aspx page. I am using the default asp.net server with Visual Studio 2010, if that helps.

I am creating a web application from files that I successfully created a web site with. I am creating new pages, and copying the bulk of the code to the web application. I am doing this because the pages are not successfully compiled because of the header information being different. I have gotten the code to compile in VS 2010 successfully, along with 3 assemblies. When I try to call one of the programs in the assemblies, I get an error: MicroFocus.COBOL.COBOLRuntimeException was unhandled by user code  HResult=-2146232832  Message=198     Load failure [Program not verifiable][Program "ClassLibrary1.GET_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE" is not verifiable, Initial Program "logon_aspx" is verifiable]  Source=MicroFocus.COBOL.Runtime  ErrorNumber=198  ErrorString=198     Load failure [Program not verifiable][Program "ClassLibrary1.GET_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE" is not verifiable, Initial Program "logon_as