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This document describes the steps needed to configure Visual COBOL for Eclipse to work with the JVM servlet APIs and common Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) application servers. It will include the steps needed to configure both the IDE and the server. It will include the steps needed to make the Micro Focus JVM COBOL runtime environment available to deployed web applications. Finally it will include appropriate setup steps for various third party APIs and frameworks that can be used with JVM COBOL. Contents 1 Setting up the Servlet Container 1.1 Setting up Tomcat 2 Installing the Eclipse Web Tools Platform 3 Setup of the Server Runtime for Eclipse Web Projects 3.1 Setting up the Tomcat Runtime 4 Installing Eclipse Web Tools Platform Adapters 4.1 Installing the WASDev adapter for WebSphere 4.2 Installing the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 5 Additional Configuration Details 5.1 Installing the Eclipse Marketplace Setting up the Servlet Container The servlet container ca

I tried to install the trial versions (visual cobol eclipse and visual cobol visual studio) After installation (which seems to work properly) i will alwas be asked for a license key after programm startup. It is possible to cancel the license key window, but doing this both versions will not allow to open a cobol project (there are no cobol projects listed to choose from ).   Same for both versions (eclipse and visual studio) same behaviour on Win7 (64) and Vista (x86) both versions are german Please help   Thank you das      

I haven't found a good solution for this on the Web.  Project A in solution 1 wants to call a program in project B in solution 2.  Because project B is in another solution I don't see it on the Project tab of the Add Reference dialog so I add a reference to project B's dll file from the Browse tab.  Once I've done this I can call project B's programs from project A.  The problem is that I'm doing this for the debug build and looking inside the cobol project file the reference is shown as  "debug\\ProjectB.dll".  All of our compiled programs are being output to this directory.  When we later do a release build all programs will be output to the release directory and we will need to replace all references.  Because we are keeping our solutions small this could require a lot of work. What is the best way to add references to projects in other solutions ?#VisualCOBOL

This is not a feature that is built into the MessageBox class and the message box is always centered over the desktop.  I have found some examples written in C# on how to do this but they run for many lines of code and my C# training is not far enough along to where I can translate them into Visual COBOL.  Has anyone written a routine for this in Visual COBOL ?  Our other option would be to write our own message class or use a third-party control that allows positioning.#VisualCOBOL

Currently have this version of Visual Cobol: Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.0 Version 2.0.00110.Serial number:  Trial days left: 12Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.0 Copyright (C) Micro Focus 1984-2012. All rights reserved. We used single program .APP in Net Express - I do not see a way to create a .SLN with the import. Also when I use  NEW\\PROJECT\\COBOL\\NATIVE\\Console Application for native code I have a new dir created and then the .SLN in that dir - this occurs even when I have "create directory for solution" not checked.  How can I bypass this issue ? If I compile from the command line and try to execute the exe it created I get a dos command window that apprears and disapprears in a flash.  I cannot find any log or message file as to what is not correct.  Any idea where to look ?  I am currectly using c:\\VCSOURCE to do all my work and the new .exe is in this dir. What is the difference with my version listed above and the

What is the meaning of this message? What should I do to avoid it? The program never executed.

Getting Started with Visual COBOL for Eclipse Creating web applications using JSPs and Tomcat Summary In this tutorial, we take you through the steps to create a web application using JSPs and Tomcat. To create web application in Eclipse we need install some new plugins, we’ll walk you through this step too. First of all, you need to install the Web Tools Platform for Eclipse. From the help menu, select Install New Software. Paste this URL into the Work With entry field: http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/repository/helios/ You also need to download Tomcat to host your JSP and COBOL JVM application. Install Tomcat here. Choose the most current version of Tomcat and take a note the version you installed. After installing Tomcat and WTP, switch back to Eclipse and create a new project. From the File menu, select new -> other and then browse for the Dynamic Web Project     Click the next button, give the project a name   Click the “New Runtime” button Select the

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Getting Started with Visual COBOL for Visual Studio Creating Web Applications Summary In this tutorial, we task you through the steps to create an ASP.NET web application. Start Visual Studio and from the file menu, create a new project. Under the COBOL templates and select Web and ASP.NET Web Application. Give the project a name and location and click OK Click the design tab in the bottom left of the main window to switch to the HTML design view. Ensure the toolbox window is visible from the View menu And then drag a button from the toolbox on to the form. Add a textbox too. Your screen should look similar to this: Double-click the button to add an event handler. Add the following code: class-id WebApplication1._Default is partial inherits type System.Web.UI.Page public. working-storage section. method-id Page_Load protected. local-storage section. procedure division using by value sender as object by value e as type EventArgs. goback. end method. method-id Button1_Click

Getting Started with Visual COBOL for Visual Studio Hello World using .NET Summary This getting started tutorial shows how you can create a user interface using .NET and call a COBOL application to perform the backend processing.  Start Visual Studio and create a new project from the File -> New menu Make sure the COBOL  section is selected and from there choose Windows Forms Application  Name the project and choose a location for it to be stored and then click OK.  Your screen should look similar to this.   We’re going to paint a very simple user interface with a single button. To add the button, make sure the toolbox is visible from the view menu:     Now you can drag a button from toolbox to the WinForm     Right click the button and choose properties    In the properties window, change the value of the button’s Text property to “Click Me”. You can change other properties if you like, including color. Now double c

Getting Started with Visual COBOL for Eclipse Hello World using COBOL JVM   Summary: This getting started tutorial shows how you can create a Java user interface and call a COBOL application to perform the backend processing. We’re using the Google Window Toolkit to design the user interface. The walkthrough will guide you through the process of setting this up. Before creating your application, we need to add some new extensions to your Eclipse IDE.   Install Google Window Builder Google Window Builder provides a UI designer within Eclipse that allows you to create graphical applications for Java using drag and drop.  Help-> Install new software Add the following URL for Eclipse 3.7 Window Builder support to the Work With field – you don’t need to click Add. http://dl.google.com/eclipse/inst/d2wbpro/latest/3.7 Select all components and click next and then complete the installation.      Once Eclipse has installed the software, restart with a fresh wor

Hi,   I'm using <LinkMultiDlls> set to true in the project definition for a Visual COBOL 2.1 project and I would like to create an installer to include all the DLL's for that project. Now this would appear to not be possible as the installer project (be it WIX, Installshield LE or a VS2010 .vdprof project) assume that the project build output has name ProjectName.dll and won't look for the multiple DLL's... I'm still researching MSBUILD but does any ideas on this? I know that I can specify each individual file manually from the project in the setup project, but if I add a new source file to the project and forget to add the associated DLL to the setup project it won't be included.   Thanks, Michael#Setup#msbuild#LinkMultiDlls

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Hi, Anyone know if a document exist explaining the requirement sin order to migrate a running MFC 5 application into using Visual Cobol instead?   I would be interesting in something that describe what to expect in the effort of replacing the Cobol compiler and runtime.  The obvious consist in installing the new visual Cobol and its license and recompile the source, but should we expect to have to modify any data file (KSAM for example) or should some compilation/runtime flags be used to emulate the old version behaviour. Thanks in advance -Pierre  PS: Principally on Unix.

Hi All, Could Anyone please help me in type casting in JVM COBOL ?? best regards#COBOL#JVMCOBOL

Hi I am using Eclipse Version!!! the problem is there is an error ==> Multiple markers at this line - COBCH0972S Linkage item 'CUSTOMER-MOBILE' is referenced but has no addressability. - COBCH0972S Linkage item 'CUSTOMER-NAME' is referenced but has no addressability. - COBCH0972S Linkage item 'CUSTOMER-ADDRESS' is referenced but has no addressability. - COBCH0972S Linkage item 'CUSTOMER-PHONE' is referenced but has no addressability. the code is : #Eclipse#JVMCOBOL#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution#COBOL

Good morning,I wonder if it's possible to change the default Builder that appears for a Cobol Remote Project in VisualCobol Eclipse 2.1, and as it should be The idea would be to set up the project so that when you perform a Build, will run a script located on the remote server for each of the programs that were part of the project. Currently we can accomplish this task by setting the following code in the Events tab; but the idea would be to set up the environment to not perform the default Buider, and only execute this code lines ... We also want to see the output produced by each of the lines in the script in the console tab.     Thank you

In Visual COBOL 2.1 for Eclipse, I'm trying to build a JVM application that I would want to deploy on z/Linux, so created a  COBOL JVM Class, coded the statement  $set ilusing"com.ibm.mq", add a JAR to the JVM Build Path in which package com.ibm.mq exists, then wrote the line of code   set mqmanager to new MQQueueManager(qMgrName)  in a method within the class. I cannot get the compiler/builder to recognize MQQueueManager as a class that I can access. I get the error message "COBCH0845S Unknown class 'MQQueueManager' " I added some ilusing statements for java.lang, and can quite happily access classes like Integer. I'm very new to this environment including object COBOL, but I think I've set up everything I should to have my class invoke a java class. So, what am I doing wrong.    

Hi I am using visual COBOL for Eclipse, I want to know exactly ho to connect to mysql or oracle database and start using EXEC SQL statement using native cobol best regards#COBOL

We have a native DLL called WN99.DLL, which has a number of programs named WN99???.  Our application is mostly native but we are starting to add managed functions to it.  When we start up our application, we load WN99.DLL  in our native driver program with: SET PROC-POINTER TO ENTRY "WN99.DLL" All of our object, both native and managed, is output to the same directory.  I was able to call a native WN99 program from a managed project without doing any further handling.  When another programmer ran the same managed code, he got an error 173 on the call to the WN99 program.  We fixed this in one of two ways, either by adding a reference in the managed project to WN99.DLL or by doing  the above SET PROC-POINTER statement in the first managed program that got run (we have a little managed program which is run when we start our application and its purpose is to do any necessary preloads of DLL'S).  Is it true that native DLL's that are called from both

Hi, Can anyone tell me the appropriate cobol picture clause to use on a host variable to access a VARCHAR(MAX) column please ? Currently we have this defined as PIC X(32000) but when interrogating the esql statement generated in Sql profiler this appears to get converted into a TEXT data type which leads to an SQL error as we wish to use RTRIM. We need to be moving away from using TEXT data types as Microsoft are indicating they intend to withdraw support. Any advice would be much, appreciated. Thanks

Hi, I have some trouble when i try to "debug" an application in Visual COBOL.  I looked in the documentation but I havn't found a solution. When I run my application, I give it a buffer of several thousand character, i run it on java like this : Reference ref = new Reference(); ref.bytes = "000A003 [....] 030303030".getBytes(); MyProgram program = new MyProgram(); program.MyProgram(ref); But now, i want to debug my Cobol using Visual Cobol, but i don't know how to pass this buffer to my program. How can i do it ? Thanks, Regards#buffer#VisualCOBOL#debug

The build of project ACU2MFDataMigration gives me an Unkown build error; Object reference not set to an instance of an object, line 269 in file Microsoft.WinFX.targets. I use VS 2012 en VC 2.1 on windows 7 and VS is very new for me. Who will and/or can explain to me what is wrong.

Hi, I have code that reads 1000 sql records and outputs the data to a datagrid. Normally the program looks like its "hung" until the sql code has finished. However I found the "DoEvents" function which I added, after each record has been returned, as follows:- invoke type "System.Windows.Forms.Application"::"DoEvents"() This works and looks a lot better but it has really slowed down the program. So I then found the following VB code but have no idea how to convert to Cobol code, can any one pls advise. Private Declare Function GetInputState Lib "user32" () As Integer Private Sub btnGetInputState_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnGetInputState.Click ' 'This loop uses the GetInputState() Api call to check if any 'messages needs to be processed and decides whether or not to 'execute the DoEvents() method. Your application will NOT appear to 'be frozen while the code is runnin

Having build several Visual COBOL executables I want to deploy them onto peoples desktops. Rather than have a bog standard 'window' icon on my desktop I'd like to have them as small icons we've got artwork & images for. How do I build the executable so that these 'images' can be seen as the desktop icon rather than the 'window' icon?