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Is anyone using Relativity in a unix environment where you are sharing Cobol data with Windows?  I am trying to push data from Unix to SQL using a linked server and also update Cobol data from MSSQL Server Agent and from scheduled tasks running visual studio projects. Any suggestions appreciated as we are trying to determine if we have the right product or not. Eventually I also plan to use Visual Cobol with Esql to get Windows SQL data to be available to Cobol in unix.#Relativityunixodbcsharing

Hello, I have a datagrid with multiple lines.Select three of these lines.How do I read the three lines I selected? Thanks Alberto Ferraz

Hello, I made my first program with a TreeView and is working.I used the method that is in the example WPFBOOK the demo. Now the question I am asking is how do I get the selected line?For example I have a locale with five clients. What I want is to click on a client and display your data in another window. Thank you Alberto Ferraz

This is not a big deal, but I have an Indexed File that is NOT described as OPTIONAL in the SELECT statement. When I OPEN the file I-O,  and the file is not there, it creates an empty file (good!  that's what I want!) and returns a status code of 05 (instead of 35). I would have thought that the status code would have been a 35 in this instance (as it is NOT described as an optional file). So, my only question is why is it 05 instead of 35 in this case? Thanks.

I'm trying to download Visual Cobol for Eclipse Personal Edition but the only option that appears is for Visual Studio. What happened with Visual Studio for Eclipse? Microfocus has disabled this product? What happens to those who can't afford the expensive Microsoft licenses? 

I try to understand how Visual COBOL works in Eclipse GUI.  I turn verbose mode I saw this information in the build output windows: [cobollink] Linking Hello...[cobollink] cob32 -g -x -t -oHello Hello.o -U [cobollink] Link complete with no errors[cobollink] I can understand purposes about these flags: -g,  -t, -x from Enterprise > Micro Focus Studio Enterprise Edition for UNIX > General Reference > Command Line Reference > Compiling and Linking from the Command Line But I really do not understand flag -U The document says : Dynamically Load Unresolved Reference (-U) Causes any unresolved reference to be treated as a COBOL program to be dynamically loaded. Normally, such references would cause a fatal error at link time when creating a system executable, or cause a fatal error at run-time for callable shared objects. But I did not see any difference to use -U or without -U in the final executable file. Is there anyway to  turn off -U flag in Visu

Has anyone used the Crystal reports .NET interface to run, print and export a Crystal report from a COBOL program?  If so, I'd appreciate any suggestions, sample code, pointers or other advice.  Thanks in advance!

# cat /etc/redhat-releaseRed Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.1 (Maipo) # java -versionjava version "1.8.0_91"Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_91-b14)Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 25.91-b14, mixed mode) # df -hFilesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/sdb2        99G   33G   62G  35% /devtmpfs        7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /devtmpfs           7.8G  152K  7.8G   1% /dev/shmtmpfs           7.8G  9.0M  7.8G   1% /runtmpfs           7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup # ./setup_visualcobol_deveclipse_2.3_redhat_x86_64 -noplatformcheck   Product will be ins

Problem: When opening a project, intermittently, the following error message might appear:Unable to determine the status of the product license: Unable to retrieve error details for error MFCES_ERROR_SECURITY_UNCONFIRMED See sample screenshot below for further details:  Resolution: This error can occur if the Micro Focus CES Daemon is not started using the Local Windows  System account. Check that the Local System account is used to start this service.

Hi!I will get and set System Parameters like this in c#:             this.Top = Properties.Settings.Default.Top;            this.Left = Properties.Settings.Default.Left;            this.Height = Properties.Settings.Default.Height;            this.Width = Properties.Settings.Default.Width;            this.Closing = MainWindow_Closing;             // Bildschirmgröße anpassen falls zu klein!            HOEHE = Convert.ToInt32(System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenHeight);            BREITE = Convert.ToInt32(System.Windows.SystemParameters

Problem: Many Visual COBOL projects may use the same copybooks, this usually would require setting the Copybook Paths within the properties of a project. How can the Copybook Paths be set for a Visual COBOL project externally in the environment? Resolution: Setting up COBOL Copybook Paths within a Project The location of copybooks can be specified in the project properties of a project, on the Copybooks tab, or adding them to the project as linked files or folders. This would need to be set for each project within a solution. Select the Copybook Paths tab and select the New Line icon. Enter the value or browse to location and select the Check Entries icon.   Setting up COBOL Copybook Paths within the environment The COBCPY environment variable can be set in the environment before launching Visual COBOL. When Visual COBOL is started, it will inherit the settings from the environment, a batch file or script can be used to set up various environment variables and file mapping

Hello,the only way I know is to have another project which is linked to the "main" project.In the linked project the function resides which can then be called from the "main" project. Is there a way to put a function in "main" project and also call it from there. I am using Visual Cobol 2.2 with Eclipse and remote projects. The projects are unmanaged Cobol. Thanks for any information on this topic.

Hi, I have just downloaded Visual Cobol for Visual Studio 2013. Can anyone help direct me to the method to create a VSAM file (KSDS and ESDS) within one the platform? Any help is much appreciated. Mark Gialo

I am unable to configure Ajax in visual COBOL. Is there any documentation regarding this which could help?#COBOL#FormVisualCobol#VisualCOBOL#extend9.2.5VisualCOBOL#ASP.Net

I have a COBOL program that calls the next program in a series of programs (in house transactional system). It calls a program using this syntax: CALL NEXT-PROG USING blah blah blah NEXT-PROG is the next program in the series. most of the time this works great. We have this in a RUNUNIT, so we isolate what is being run. However, we recently ran into a problem. The program being called had the headers mixed up. It's an abort routine, and it should only be called if another program error-ed out. This program wasn't being executed, although it compiled. During our conversion process this program had a copybook put in front of the PROGRAM-ID, forcing the system to not recoginze it. First lines looked like this:       $SET CHECKNUM       REPOSITORY.           COPY CONNECTIONCLASSESREPOSITORY.       IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.    &nb

I am converting acucobol-gt to visual cobol and have problems to access the data files created by acucobol.  I have used the sample LoginFormApplication and have added access to an existing archive with passwords  The indexed file is fixed-length and has two archives called  ARCHMENU  and ARCHMENU.vix Using idxformat 17 or 21 the code error is 39C6 SELECT ARCHMENU  ASSIGN TO RANDOM NAMEMENU                             ORGANIZATION IS INDEXED                             ACCESS MODE  IS DYNAMIC                             RECO

I've been trying to download a DB2 environment to use with Visual Cobol 2.3, I tried using the Visual Server and it doesn't work, I unzip the files and run setup and it stops loading with an error.  I tried using IBM DB2 the free version and using director it tells me I need to load Java, which I did and it keeps telling me to load the new Java, when it has been installed successfully.  When I try to download the http version, I just click on RUN and nothing happens.  Is there a DB2 environment that works out there??  HELP!!

I have cobol programs that connect to oracle with connect /    When I want to use the programs in visual studio I have to change the connect statement to connect to adodsn.   Is there a solution for this?

To turn on visual style controls and visual style fonts for Dialog System screens we set the MFVSSW environment variable to "/c /f" when we start our application.  A user can select to either use or not use this feature.  When we launch our application we display a splash screen and its background is a bitmap that shows our company name and logo.  If we turn on visual style fonts, the splash screen is resized so that it is not as tall.  The bitmap is not resized so it is chopped off on the bottom.  I can turn on the visual style font default in the Dialog System designer and then resize the splash screen so that it shows all of the bitmap, but if a user decides to not use visual style controls and fonts a gap is left between the bottom of the bitmap and the bottom of the splash screen. Does anyone know of a way to solve this?  If bitmaps don't get resized perhaps there is another control we could use for the background image which does resize

I would like to deserialize JSON from a REST call into an array and I'm not sure of the exact syntax. Are there any examples you can point me to or can you provide the syntax? I am working with Visual COBOL 2.2 and Visual Studio 2013. Thanks! This is what I have so far:       $set sourceformat(variable)      $set ilusing "System.Net"       $set ilusing "Newtonsoft.Json"       $set ilusing "System.Configuration"      $set ilusing "System.Collections.Specialized"         class-id CallRestService implements type IDisposable.       working-storage section.       01  wc type WebClient value new WebClient().        method-id RestService.       local-storage s

hello, I have no idea how to create a package of the Airport demo application for mobile and how I can deploy the application on a mobile phone (what files etc...) The mobile step-by-step presentation doesn't talk about packaging Any suggestion? Many thankx Any suggestion?

I tried to use Visual COBOL 2.3 to connect to IBM MQ 7.5 which is installed on the same machine (RHEL 7.2) The sample code is from IBM MQ 7.5 sample folder and I follow IBM document (instructions) , the sample is also posted online as www.davar.net/.../amq0put0.cbl I setup and compile the code as these steps: export COBCPY=/opt/mqm/inc/cobcpy64 cob64 -xtvP amq0put0.cbl -L /opt/mqm/lib64 -lmqicb_r Everything is good, create the 64-bit executable: [cobol@rh7 samp]$  cob64 -xtvP amq0put0.cbl -L /opt/mqm/lib64 -lmqicb_r cob64 -C nolist -xtvP amq0put0.cbl -L /opt/mqm/lib64 -lmqicb_r * Micro Focus COBOL                  V2.3 revision 000           Compiler* Copyright (C) Micro Focus 1984-2015. All rights reserved.* Accepted - verbose* Accepted - reentrant* Accepted - nolist* Accepted - list("amq0put0.lst")* Compiling amq0put0.cbl* Total Messages: &n

Hi, I am trying to create a managed dll from command line using -ILGEN directive.  While creating the dll I am also trying to consume the .res (Resource script) file but I am unable to do the same. can anyone please help me with a way to consume the .res or .rc file in managed dll from command line. Thanks Anand

Let’s start with a simple example. Declaring Local Variables Today variables are declared in the local-storage section of a method: In the next release of Visual COBOL you will be able to declare them within the procedure division body of your method. Optionally, you will be able to assign a value to the variable during declaration :   The same principle applies to framework types. For example, declaring the .NET Class Library structure System.DateTime. and again, optionally a value can be assigned on declaration:       Declaration of Iteration Variables or In the current product, the variables i and s have to be declared in the local-storage section of the method. But as shown above, in the next release, the iteration variables can be declared within the scope of the iterator. Declaration of Exception Variables Likewise, currently the exception variable e has to be declared in local-storage, but in the next release it can be delcared at point of use. Scope T

hi,I'm using "Micro Focus COBOL Server 2.3.1142" on Windows Server 2012.The same program compiled with Enterprise Developer 2.3.1 (Eclipse version) with same input data on my server work fine, instead on the server of customer give error rts 198.the command line is:C:\\"Program Files (x86)"\\"Micro Focus"\\"COBOL Server"\\BIN\\RUN.EXE LBTESO37.DLL   1>E:\\ALA90T\\FILES\\SYSOUT_LBTESO37.TXTerrorlevel = 198The customer told me that mfdebug.log was not created .I have attached mfsupportinfo and environment vars when error happens.All other program (also DLL) work fine....What can cause this error ?Thank..#rts198