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I was trying to run a batch script and got the below error.   Can't open message file '/opt/microfocus/cobol/rts.msg' Defaulting  to English Messages Execution error: file '' error code: 187, pc=0, call=1, seg=0 187   error message text not found   Can someone please help in understanding the above error.  

Bom dia, gostaria de saber se no cobol Microfocus existe algum comando facilitador para leitura de aquivo formato JSON?

 I too, like many others, cannot activate the student trial license for Visual COBOL. This is for Visual Studio 2017. I need this install ready for a mainframe development class I am in and would appreciate any assistance you can offer. Thanks

Hi all, What's the easiest way for an MF cobol program to check a font is present on a Windows (7, 10) PC or Windows Server (2008/2012).  My environment is Visual Studio 15, Visual COBOL v3 - compiling to native windows .exe i.e. not .net.  Thanks, Linden

Hi everyone, I'm having trouble activating my free trial for Visual Cobol 2017 PE.  I've tried automatic activation, but get an error that I'm not registered.  I'm sure the email address is correct.  I've also tried manual registration but receive the  error MG0106: Unable to authorize the request. My serial no. is 600000730619 Thanks for the help. Edit-  I should also add that I contacted Supportline@microfocus.com and was told they do not support the personal edition and that I should come here.

How can i use syntax help for the cobol language within the cobol editor? This does not work out of the box, instead the Microsoft Online Help shows up in a Browser. Micro Focus Documentation says this feature is available:"In the editor, point to a COBOL reserved word and press F1 to display the syntax Help for that word." We're working with Enterprise Developer 2.3 for Visual Studio 2015.

Hi all,   i want to read with cobol for eclipse a file folder and i'll write all of this files (they are copy books files) from this file folder in a file.i need help.   your sincerely alashara

Hi, Can anyone assist with changing below C# into Visual Cobol?  subItems = new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem[] {new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem(item, "Directory"),new ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem(item, dir.LastAccessTime.ToShortDateString())}; This is in the code block:-   *> TreeNode newSelected = e.Node; declare newSelected as type System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode = e::Node *>listView1.Items.Clear(); invoke listView1::Items::Clear *>DirectoryInfo nodeDirInfo = (DirectoryInfo)newSelected.Tag; declare nodeDirInfo as type System.IO.DirectoryInfo = newSelected::Tag as type System.IO.DirectoryInfo *>ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem[] subItems; declare subItems as type System.Windows.Forms.ListViewItem ListViewSubItem[] *>ListViewItem item = null; declare item as type System.Windows.Forms.ListViewItem = null * foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in nodeDirInfo.GetDirectories()) * { * item = new ListViewItem(dir.Name, 0); * subItems = new ListViewItem.ListViewS

Hallo, I installed Visual Cobol 3 with Devhub on a Redhat System 7.4 which runs on Virtualbox. Connecting from Eclipse to the remote system and creating a Cobol program is no problem. Also compiling it on Redhat works fine. However the remote built does not work. As I am a beginner with Devhub I probably missed one step. "Connection to 192.168.178.49 could not be established." is the main message from my understandig (see entire message below). However I have access to the remote system. I hope this is not a big for the community and someone knows what I did wrong. Thanks in advance Franz   Below  the error message is shown:   Errors occurred during the build.Errors running builder 'Remote COBOL Builder' on project 'CobolProgram1'.Could not connect to remote hostConnection to 192.168.178.49 could not be established.Launch command output:Last login: Wed Jan 10 23:26:31 2018 from 192.168.178.23sh -c "/opt/microfocus/VisualCOBOL/remotedev

Hi all, I am experiencing the following problem : I downloaded and installed Visual Cobol PE for Visual Studio 2017, but I can't activate it.When I select "I want to activate the free product" with my e-mail address (xrousaios@yahoo.gr), I am receiving the following message :"The activation of Micro Focus Visual Cobol personal edition failed. This was because we didn't recognize the email address you endered as having been previously registered with us.". But, when I am visiting the registration page, I couldn't see or find any registration procedure. So, I used the MANUAL activation process, using the "Send Email/Display Fields" sequence and, I sent an email according to the instructions.However, the answer I received was the following :   "The following error occurred during the authorization processMG0106: Unable to authorize the request." I tried it again later, but nothing happened.  Well, I don't know what excactly can I do to solve this issue.  Any help wll b

Hello to everyone and happy new year, with health and blessings! As I have Windows XP as Operation System, I installed the personal (free) edition of Visual Cobol 2010 (only Visual Studio 2010 can work on Windows XP, not the earlier versions). I tried to activate it, even manually by sending email at LicenseRequest@microfocus.com, but the acivation failed. I received by email the message: "The following error occurred during the authorization process MG0106: Unable to authorize the request. Please try the authorization later. If this problem persists, please go to Micro Focus community website at http://community.microfocus.com/ and look at the authorization issues under the wiki. For more information start a thread under the Visual COBOL forum." Can you please help me about the issue? Thank you very much in advance.

Hi I'm porting a large desktop MicroFocus  application that is currently compiled to gnts  onto the Web. I'm using Eclipse 2.2.2 on Windows 10. The app will deployed on a Windows Server 2010 or later. The old architecture uses a sockets C program, compiled to a dll that was itself called by a compile Cobol gnt. Here's an extract from the COBOL program that called the sockets.dll 01 W00SOC-REC PIC X(6144). 01 ws-msg PIC X(6145). string w00soc-rec x"00" delimited by size into ws-msg call dynamicNTStdCall "sockets" using ws-msg  The other side of the socket connection is a Java program that paints a Gui screen using the passed information at run time. Gnts needing to  use the sockets Cobol program pass W00SOS-REC in linkage. As far as I can tell there is no native support for sockets on the Web, apparently for security reasons. However there is socket like protocol "Websockets" that is widely supported. I can install and use To

I installed VC3.0 for Visual Studio 2017 PE free for 1 year. When I create a project it says there is no license. I ask for a license, automatic via the web, but it says my e-mail isn't registered. When I try to register my e-mail it sends me to a website http://www.microfocus.com/p-visual-cobol-pe and that's it... It stays waiting for a response from >MicroFocus. After more than an hour I gave up... Can you help?

Above is a window with the error I'm receiving when trying to connect to a Microsoft Access DB from VS Cobol 3.0.  I connected it under tools which appeared successful.  Help!

Hi there, I need to get the MySQL db name I'm connected to. MySQL command below gets pre-compiler error, "Incorrect SQL statement syntax near: database". exec sql select database() into :aName from aTable end-exec. 'Select schema()...' gets same error, while 'select whatever()...' is fine. Seems to be a reserved word problem?  How to solve? Thanks, Linden  

Hi Team,   XA Resource is keep on disabling and we noticed below errors in the logs. Kindly help me on this . WE are suspecting we need to change XA resource parameter. ERROR:- XA Resource Manager initialization error. Resource BDP1 open failed, reason -00003   Thanks in Advacne

Hi all, Any ideas?  How might I call out from Visual COBOL (Windows environment) to measure the height of a given piece of text rendered with a given font, point size, column width?  e.g. A call to calculate the size of this text in Arial 12 point in 50mm width column, "FORD FOR SALE. Lovely condition, very economical, £30 road tax, low insurance. MOT to August 2018 with no advisories. Cambelt Water Pump and Coolant all changed in August 2017. Continental tyres with plenty of tread all round. Ford Radio CD with auxiliary port for I Phone MP3 etc. Owned by us since May 2011." Anyone done this from COBOL?  Any ideas appreciated. Thanks, Linden

         We are getting below error.    Please Wait.    Extracting Payload...         ./setup_entdev_3.0_patchupdate04_168607_redhat_x86_64: - ERROR - File size does not match that expected.    Perhaps this file is truncated or corrupt.    When transfering via FTP ensure binary mode is used.    Please get a new copy and try again.   Can you please help on above issues.

Hello,   I am trying to use the same screen section for several purposes. In a case all input fields must be available to the user, and in another case some fields must be protected and not visible. Of course the change in the field attribute has to be done at run time.  I tried to play around with the ACCEPT CONTROL clause, I simply move "PROTECT" to a variable previously linked to the CONTROL clause in the SCREEN SECTION.  Result: The field is effectively protected but the cursor stop on it when I hit tab from the previous field!!!  Is somebody knows if there is a way to avoid the cursor to pause on it? #VisualStudio#ACCEPT#VisualCOBOL

I've recently added a MAC to my collection and found a VS 2017 for MAC download.  Has anyone used this or is familiar with using a MAC with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Cobol PE.  Is it the same Cobol download for the MAC as the one for Windows?  Need to know if it will function the same as my Windows versions.

Is there an easier way to convert a RM Comp-6 to something that OpenESQL would recognize. The error I get is "does not have a suitable definition to be used as a host variable"   The only way I've gotten this to work is move it to a Non Comp-6 Field first (into a signed non-packed field for example) ... then using that variable.   I was hoping that CAST or CONVERT functions would work, but Haven't had any luck getting it to work, or I've just go the Syntax wrong.     Thanks for your help/insight.     Eric Boatman  

Hi all, I am a experienced COBOL developer having used MF products for many years in Windows PC environments - currently Visual COBOL / Visual studio.  However my knowledge of direct Windows functions/api calls is more limited e.g. I launch a few apps to run scripts to find printers, display browser windows and manipulate MF Dialog System objects.  I'd like to learn about Windows programming from an MF and general perspective i.e. how to process windows objects, how they are structured, how I can use built in Visual Studio/.Net functions and so on.  As background I also use MySQL and program in PHP and javascript and have developed a few windows scripts. Many thanks, Linden

Problem: I have shipped Selected Files from COBOL Server together with my application files. When I run the application from a remote PC the RT Error 245 occurs. Resolution: Note: Micro Focus recommends that you ship the whole of COBOL Server with your application. However to provide backward compatibility, you can still select and ship specific files. Follow instructions in the Knowledgebase Article: Network deployment of Visual COBOL 2.3 native applications For this type of installation/configuration the progname.exe.mfcfg should contain the following two lines:    SET BINPATH=\\\\ServerName\\COBOLsrv    SET CESDYNAMIC=ces.ini    

First: Please excuse my lacking knowledge of the Micro Focus product structure and licensing. I have built a little Visual Cobol application in Eclipse and wish to run this on our customer sites. We will of course run this on the Java Virtual Machine BUT from my understanding the customer also does need a cobol runtime installed for licensing purposes? If so, is this runtime product the "Cobol Server"? Our customers are mostly on the "Micro Focus Server" product (running code built in NetExpress). Will we be able to run our java application on machines with "Micro Focus Server" or do we need to upgrade to "Cobol Server"? (Can NetExpress built code run on "Cobol Server"?)#license#Java

Hi there, My Environment: Visual COBOL 3.0, Visual Studio Community 2015 How can I keep tabs when reading line sequential files i.e. not expand to spaces?  Ideally I want to set it so that my project always just writes and reads line sequential files without interfering with the content i.e. no null insertion and no tab expansion. Thanks, Linden