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The MSDN C# example looks like this: using System;using System.Threading;public class Example{    public static void Main()    {        // Queue the task.        ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(ThreadProc));        Console.WriteLine("Main thread does some work, then sleeps.");        // If you comment out the Sleep, the main thread exits before         // the thread pool task runs.  The thread pool uses background         // threads, which do not keep the application running.  (This         // is a simple example of a race condition.)        Thread.Sleep(1000);        Console.WriteLine("Main thread exits.");  &nbs

Good Morning, We are currently working with RM/COBOL accessing with RM/InfoExpress to a UNIX server data, anyone know how to connect from the visual cobol to files residing on Unix. I appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you.

Problem: Customer is using Visual COBOL for Visual Studio and needs to increase the stack size that is linked into a native .EXE. Is there a way to set this option other than by setting the LINK environment variable with the "/STACK:8000000" value? Resolution: Setting the LINK environment variable should also work under Visual COBOL for linking native .exes but you can additionally set the link directives in the project properties. Open the properties and look at the COBOL Link tab. Near the bottom there is a field called Additional Directives. You can pass directives to the linker by specifying the -wl option along with the directive. -wl"/STACK:8000000" For managed code we have a directive called -ILSTACKSIZE that allows you to do this.

Problem: Customer has a program that uses embedded SQL statements using the OpenESQL precompiler.This program compiles without errors under Net Express but when compiling under Visual COBOL as a native program it gets the following error:COBCH0801: Statement Incompatible with BEHAVIOR settingon the following statement:       EXEC SQL SET CONCURRENCY READ-ONLY END-EXECWhy is this occurring? Resolution: This error message occurs because the default settings of the SQL BEHAVIOR directive have changed in Visual COBOL.By default it is now set to BEHAVIOR=MAINFRAME if it is not specified.You can change this behavior back to the Net Express defaults as follows: Close Visual Studio and then in the C:\\Program Files\\Micro Focus\\Visual COBOL\\bin folder run the program esqlconfigw.exe. Click on the third option down which is for no change in behavior and then click the save button. Open up Visual Studio and try compiling again.The error message should now be

Problem: Customer is using ACCEPT/DISPLAY statements in a Visual COBOL native program to perform screen I-O. The screen that they have defined is 80 characters by 30 lines.They are displaying data on line 25 and the character that should be displayed in column 79 is being dropped.   Why and how can this be fixed? Resolution: There are several positions on the screen to which error messages and indicators are displayed by the ACCEPT/DISPLAY screen handling module and by default these are set on row 25. You can configure these to display on a different line or column by using the ADISCF utility. Open up a Visual COBOL command prompt and do a cd to your project folder and enter the command: adiscf to start the accept/display configuration utility. Press F2-Alter Press F7 positions Change the locations to the desired ones and then press Enter to return to menu. Press Esc key to return to main menu and then press F4 to save. Press F3 to overwrite current configuration then press Enter

Problem: Customer has a native Visual COBOL application that is using an OPEN to a printer which is a USB printer under Windows.They are setting the configuration option set printer_redirection=TRUE in a cobconfig.cfg file and are setting the environment variable COBCONFIG_ to point to this file.The printer redirection is working correctly and the output from the WRITE statements is successfully be printed. The problem is that the report is supposed to be aligned in columns and these columns are not be aligned properly so they do not match up from row to row. It prints correctly when printing to a printer attached to the LPT1 port. Resolution: Notes: Printer alignment issues on a USB printer most likely have nothing to do with COBOL and have everything to do with what is set as the default font for the printer. If the default font is a proportional font then all characters are not the same width so depending on what characters you are printiing the columns will not line up correc

Problem: A problem was encountered opening indexed files after an application was upgraded from Net Express to Visual COBOL running native code. The SELECT statement was as follows: SELECT ‘filename’ (i.e. no extension specified). Also, INDEXNAMETYPE=2 was set in the file handler configuration file. As a result when opening a new version of a file in Net Express the file handler created an indexed file with the naming convention filename.dat and filename.idx. When testing Visual COBOL it seemed the Visual COBOL Native Runtime was ignoring this directive and was creating just the one file - filename.dat. Some files were temporary transaction files and these were to be removed using the DELETE FILE statement each time the program was run. But in Visual COBOL the .idx file was not deleted when the DELETE FILE statement was executed, and this caused a problem when opening the file later on.   Resolution: The reason this happened was because in Net Ex

Hello  I found there is “Find References” can be selected when I right clilck on a variable. But,the result is only the references in current program When I want to know the references in the project even in the workspace, how do i do Although,i can use Search.but it doesn't have good exactness i want the feature lilke reference in java ， once search，multi-results in multi-programs Please tell me, thank you

The various COBOL and JAVA files used in this article.JVMCOBOLWebServices.zip

Recently I was asked by one of our Visual COBOL users how to retrieve a Database connection string for use in an ASP.NET WebForm application. I thought it would be good to put together a small sample and share it on the community site. In many presentations I have done, I have emphasized that Visual COBOL is a .NET language. That means that techniques to do things in .NET can be used in Visual COBOL as well. This is what makes any .NET language powerful. .NET comes with many categories of classes built in that you can use to speed up development. Take advantage of .NET classes with Visual COBOL just like any other .NET language! The sample I have put together really is very straightforward and makes use of some recommended classes and code on Microsoft’s MSDN site. The sample depends on an example connectionString element entry in a Web.Config file. This connectionString element consists of the name of the connectionString, the connectionString itself, and the providerName for th

I tried using that app configuration file that chris glazer sent  (i think that's his name) for another program and it gave me a wrong mode error what modes it suppose to be in the only thing I can think that is different is this line in my code organization is line sequential. im not sure that's any mode or not

Hi, I am facing a technical problem in calling a native code from a managed code. I have created a native COBOL project and another managed COBOL project, I followed the documentation and no progress!! I would like some help. after I add the native code DLL reference to the managed project I try to call it using CALL "NativeCOBOL" using data-record. and the IDE(Visual Studio) doesn't recognize it despite that I have added the MicroFocus.COBOL.Runtime so anyone guide me please  Best Regards#COBOL#VisualStudio#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution

Error 1 Unable to copy file "obj\\Debug\\WindowsFormsApplication3.exe" to ".\\bin\\Debug\\WindowsFormsApplication3.exe". The process cannot access the file '.\\bin\\Debug\\WindowsFormsApplication3.exe' because it is being used by another process. C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\Microsoft.Common.targets 2869

I attached  the error in a text file does anyone know what this error means

Hi, i've already connected my code in a database(access 2007). Now my problem is the syntax in inserting data from textboxes when a button is click. Thank you.

Hi. im new in visual Cobol, i would like to know how to connect to a database. And this program will just add, edit and delete. I can make it in Visual C#. Is it the same?? Help please. :(

Hi All, We are considering to buy the license and use Visual COBOL for our solution. However, first we need to be sure that it fits our requirements. If anyone can provide a code example (or link with this solution described) for the following that would be greatly appreciated: 1. Ability to allocate huge limits of RAM - we need a working example of creating 7 GB array and reading/writing data from its veryt last item. 2. Working example of calling a DLL written in Visual COBOL from the code written on C# - the matter is that we will be integrating the COBOL program into existing project, so we need to be sure we can do this. 3. A proof that Visual COBOL is easily integrated with could solutions (like Amazon EC2, MS Azure, etc.). Maybe examples of some existing solutions written in COBOL that are running in the clouds? We would love to use Visual COBOL for our development. If we are sure that it fits the above requirements - we would buy the license right away. Thanks, Artem#COBOL

well I downloaded visual cobol 2012 used it for 30 days or however many days the trial version will let you and it expired so i got the micro focus personal cobol 2010 for a year supposedly and I tried to install it but it said my license expired and I hadn't even used it for a day it was referencing the 2012 cobol trial version I had I am so mad that I deleted everything and now I can't program in cobol so what can I do can anybody help me                                                                                            

Hi. I downloaded Visual Cobol for Visual Studio 2010, but my trial license of 365 days don´t work, my university passed the link of the product. When I put my activation key, the program don´t accept. I don´t know what happened, but I need this program. What can I do to fix that? Thanks

Hi Are there any good sample programs/systems that demonstrate how to implement a datagrid? I want to create a simple program that populates a grid then allows users to click on an entry to open a new form for amendment. I will have a button for 'Add' also. Standard stuff I would imagine, so why can't I find it? I'm going through the Visual COBOL training at the moment and can't find anything on this. Indeed, I can't find enough examples on how to deal with the new visual objects and controls. For example, setting and detecting checkboxes. It may well be that these do exist but I've just not come across them. Many thanks Ian

Hello everyone, I want  use the Checkstyle plugin to check my COBOL source.I try to custom the xml file,but the plugin doesn't work. Can I use Checkstyle in the Visual Cobol(eclipse)? Thanks.#VisualCOBOL

I have this book that explains you can suppress leading zeros in a variable like this         01    THE-NUMBER           PIC ZZ99. but i get an error operand should be numeric error  cobch0034 error It says you can put Z's in front and suppress them this i think came from a 85 cobol standard book

Dear Microfocus Why Personal Edition can't run any program without the team edition trial!! Best Regards

Created On:  25th September 2012 Problem: If an XML document contains empty elements such as the RemoveThis element in:- <?xml version="1.0"?><customer>    <first_name>Joe</first_name>    <last_name>Smith</last_name>    <RemoveThis></RemoveThis></customer> then how can you remove then from the XML Document whne running COBOL under the .Net Framework. Resolution: One approach to doing this would be to apply a XSLT Transformation to the XML Document. Attached to this document is a demo showing how you can do this in managed .Net Visual COBOL The .Net Framework provides a number of classes for XML and allows a developer to apply XSLT transformations to XML. The XSLT Transform being applied is:- <xsl:sylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">  <xs:template match="@*|node()">    <sl:if test=". != '' or ./@* != ''"