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How long does it take to transform COBOL applications?#VisualCOBOLUniverse2020

I can see that you are using AWS with Kubernetes.  Can you do the same with Azure?#VisualCOBOLUniverse2020

If we are not using 'MAIN' section in our COBOL code, then what will be the "MAIN" box in flow chart? In other words, is the "MAIN" box in flow chart is due to Procedure Division or due to 'MAIN' Section?#VisualCOBOLUniverse2020

When extracting code to a program, can the new linkage fields be put into a copybook?#VisualCOBOLUniverse2020

Are the Refactoring features demonstrated only in Visual studio IDE or they are also available in eclipse IDE?#VisualCOBOLUniverse2020

In the session, there was talk of refactoring to create APIs or RESTful webservices from existing COBOL applications. Can you explain what technology options are available to deploy COBOL code as an API?#VisualCOBOLUniverse2020

Hi, I am trying to compile my JVM Project.Using the include-command does not work, the copy will not be found:EXEC SQL       INCLUDE HVEND-EXEC....-> cobol] COBCH0012S Operand HV-T-BEZUG is not declared HV-T-BEZUG ist declared in the copy HV.Using the copy HV by the command 'copy HV' there are no problems.My directives :hide-message"1158" REMOVE(NAME) REMOVE(USER) nospzero DATAMAP hostnum-compare"2"hostnum-move nobound nomfcomment assign"external" defaultbyte"00"notrunc setting adv NOKEYCHECK filetype"11" sequential"record" HOST-NUMCOMPARESIGN-FIXUP TRUNCCOPY"16" IDXFORMAT"8" CONSTANT COBCONNECT "TRUE" CONSTANTCONREUSE "TRUE" CONSTANT COBLOG "FALSE" REMOVE(BYTE) REMOVE(DECLARE)REMOVE(PARAMS) COPYEXT",cbl,cpy,mf,CPY,CBL" ILEXPONENTIATION "FLOAT"CHECKDIV "ENTCOBOL" NOBOUNDOPTSQL Pre Dirs:SQL(DBMAN=JDBC) S

I noticed that two project setting have double entries: After fiddling around a bit I have a feeling they both seem to serve the same purpose.► Why do they exist twice? What's the exact difference? PS: From what I also noticed:The entries on the COBOL Link page override the entries on Application page.Clearing the entries on the COBOL Link page copies the Application page entries over to the COBOL Link entries.I would have expected a drop-down for Entry Point, providing me with a list of all available entry points in the project.#application#Projectsettings#COBOLLink

Hi,Getting this error whiler creating COBOL project in Wondows 10:Errors occurred during the build.Errors running builder 'Micro Focus Project Builder' on project 'testproj'.Truncated class fileThanks.Gagan 

Has anyone experienced this error and know how to correct the problem?  It was working fine yesterday before the update occured.  I uninstalled/reinstalled Visual COBOL Personal Edition to no avail.The "MicroFocus.Cobol.BuildTasks.Cobol" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Community\\MSBuild\\Micro Focus\\Visual COBOL\\v1.0\\MicroFocus.COBOL.BuildTasks.dll. Method 'get_SourceFileExtension' in type 'MicroFocus.COBOL.BuildTasks.CreateCobolManifestResourceName' from assembly 'MicroFocus.COBOL.BuildTasks, Version=16.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0412c5e0b2aaa8f0' does not have an implementation. Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, that the assembly and all its dependencies are available, and that the task contains a public class that implements Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask.

At this time, I don't need the left margin, so it's currently loss of workspace to me.So far, I couldn't find an option yet to hide it.Can the left margin be hidden in Micro Focus option settings?

Hello All,I have converted my Netexpress5.x Projects to Visual Cobol, but continue in the Moment with Dialog System Screens, i have no experience with dotnet Screens/Windows!Who want to share his experience?Where is it possible to buy any Standard moduls to implement in new programs, toolbar, taskbarI don't want to do many Errors and reject all developments.Thanks for your help.The used database is MSSQL or other SQL-Database, here i can take the part from netexpress! And don't use mf isam files at this time!

With the current version of Visual COBOL it's impossible to inspect multidimentional table data items in a debugging session: Visual COBOL should be able to inspect multidimensional table data items like in this sketch: 

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GOOD MORNING EVERYONEI have a problem and have not been able to fix it. Working with Windows 10, single user environmentMicrosoft Visual  Studio 19Micro Focus COBOL Version 5.0Working Directory is called G2, on drive CAll source, executable, data, copy members are in that directory. We are able to compile properly, and execute the programs individually ; however, if program A, calls program B, then the error occurs . We installed, repaired, deleted an reinstalled the compiler but still get the same error. Investigating via the internet, we found some comments about the %path% not being set properly, and the recommended solution is to use REGEDIT and eliminate the quotes "" from the %path%. We reviewed the register and there are not quotes in the path.  Could someone help? Thanks in advance

The "Show All Files" button in Visual Studio Solution Explorer doesn't work with COBOL projects: Without this functionality, it's hard(er) to add existing files to the current project.

Hi,We are doing a POC in our organization to prove a Cobol program can call a restful API(built in .Net C#). We generated the input and output JSON schema files from the JSON data using a free online tool(JSCON schema draft 6) and used in Visual studio 2012 to generate the clients. Since the generated client had the service address blank(it will be auto populated if we generate the client from wsdl for SOAP services), we manually types in the URL to be called. However, we are getting error "Service name not found in IDT" when we executed the client program. I am not sure if we are doing something wrong in this process. Can someone help us ? Please notes that we use enterprise server version 3(enterprise developer ver 3 in machine).

Creating a COBOL console application solution I don't seem to be able to run the compiled EXE file by double-clicking it.I get a system error message telling me that "cblrtsm.dll" is missing: I can debug the file without flaw from within the IDE.Am I missing something? How can I start the EXE file from the Windows shell?I read through the documentation at Building COBOL Applications and Running Applications (Native COBOL), but the information there couldn't shed any light on my problem. The only issue I found in the forums so far didn't yield a result, too.

I noticed that negative numbers seem to be sort of encoded by Visual COBOL when written to line sequential files. PIC S99 VALUE -2, for instance, is stored in a line sequential file as "0r": Is this by intention? I couldn't find any documentation describing how negative numbers are stored in line sequential files. Until now, I would have believed they were stored like any other literal value (e.g. as "-02").Just in case, please find a sample project attached, depicting the issue.Your help is appreciated.

I noticed a setting in the COBOL project settings that may clash with other projects in a Visual Studio solution when compiling for x64 processors: Apparently, the Visual Studio 2019 MSBuild platform target (1) is ignored while at the same time a proprietary Platform Target property (2) has been added in project settings.From what I can see so far ...the proprietary setting is pointless as it is ignored by the compiler(i.e. no compiler settings are changed when this value is changed (see Build Settings text field at the bottom of the COBOL settings page))no MSBuild platform target is available for x64 in the solution (1)The compiler appears to compile to the MSBuild platform target (3), ignoring the proprietary setting (2)As a beginner to COBOL (particularly to Visual COBOL) I'm anything but sure and I'm not able to set-up a sample solution at this time; yet, adding a 64 bit .NET project to this solution and adding dependencies to the COBOL project should result in failure

Hi Chris,allow me to ask for 2 questions:1. is it possible to use T-SQL commands between exec SQL and end-exec?    When yes, how to make the difference between SQL code and T-SQL code2. How must we convert the Netexpress *.RC filesI see as error Directive /R invalid or not allwed here for the *.rc filesand illegal command line (COBOL)Thanks for your great help, allowing us to advancing in visual Cobol!

During my debug session I want to follow what's written to an OUTPUT file in Visual Studio.To do this, I step into my code, shortly after the OPEN OUTPUT statement, and try to open the file in Visual Studio.But Visual Studio refuses to open the file. It reports that the file is "in use by another process". Same does every other application being able to open a file with read-only access.I don't seem to be able to give correct parameters to the OPEN OUTPUT statement. I tried "OPEN OUTPUT SHARING WITH READ ONLY". However, whenever the file is created, it it's never created with FileShare.Read access (see screen recording attached to this message).What am I doing wrong?Your help is appreciated.

Problem A simple CONNECT that works fine on Oracle 11g fails with ORA-12560 on Oracle 12c and higher. It appears the trailing spaces on user id and password are no longer trimmed causing the connect to fail, and the result is the same with PICX=CHARF or PICX=VARCHAR2. Solution As of Oracle 12cR1, this is the new behavior of Pro*COBOL – trailing spaces in the password are not removed. In order to accommodate this change, Oracle introduces a new option "trim_password" to Pro*COBOL as of 12cR1. However, this option is never mentioned in the Oracle documentation until the Release Note in 12cR2:https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/12.2/pcbrn/index.html#PCBRN-GUID-D345B73E-3C0D-4B0E-8BA1-0D5EA8442AAF\\ By default on Windows, trim_password is set to NO, whereas it is set to YES on Unix/Linux. You may then do one of the followings: Add the trim_password option into COBSQL:P(COBSQL) END-C trim_password=yes ENDP​ Update the default value of trim_password to

in netexpress 5.x i have use any copy-files for my development as:wingdi.cpy, miniwin.cpy, wintypes.cpy, winuser.cpyYes, i can use this files for compiling in Visual Cobol, but are there newer copy-files or was this files missed to be included in VC5.xI used up7Thanks for your help!

  #COBOL60 – Shaping the Future of Core Business Applications, Live Webinar am 12. Mai 2020, 10 Uhr Gemeinsam mit dem Meinungsforschungsinstitut Vanson Bourne haben wir Unternehmen zu Markttrends & geschäftlichen Herausforderungen befragt, denen sie sich im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung mit COBOL stellen müssen. Die Ergebnisse in diesem Webinar! #Webinars#DigitalisierungmitCOBOL#COBOL#BusinessApplication