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Hello, I have a problem with a small application that I have that reads the citizen card using the chip. The card is read, the data is imported, but when the photo image is written it gives an error: "Generic error in GDI+" (I send the error as an attachment). I have two computers where one of them records the photo without any problem and the other gives this error. The instruction that gives the error is as follows: invoke bitmapx::Save(ccPictureFilePath, type ImageFormat::Jpeg)where bitmapx using class System.Drawing.Bitmap.I'm waiting for your notices.Best regardsAlberto Ferraz

Will the Visual COBOL release cadence continue as is?  Is there a new release coming? 

I upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 by getting a whole new machine.  I downloaded Enterprise Developer 8.0 and Patch 18 on top of Visual Studio 2019 and tried to build a few programs.  The few I've tried all failed - most but not all of the copybooks can't be located.  What is happening here?  I've never had a problem with previous upgrades, with of Windows versions or more often Micro Focus.

Hi, Can someone provide a link to Chris Glazier's video 'Database Access Using ODBC with Visual COBOL'. I believe there are other videos in the same series, but I am not able to find them.   Thanks, Luis

We are working with another company to get their product working with ours - and they have written iframes to display their information.  Is there a way to call those iframes within Visual COBOL. P.S. We are only on Version 5.0 of the software - we are well aware that we need to upgrade. We just cannot at the moment. 

I have installed the Microfocus Visual Cobol 9 after downloading the product from the "">www.microfocus.com/.../overview". I have also installed a community edition of Visual Studio 2022 prior to the Visual Cobol install, and I can develop .net applications in it. However I am unable to create any of the "Visual COBOL" template projects. Creating these gives an error in Visual Studio. I cannot even open a COBOL file and when I try to do so, I can see the an error listed below the ribbon(Screen shot attached) in Visual Studio. The error reads as follows "Visual Cobol for Visual Studio does not have a valid License". When I try to install the License following the visual studio link in the error message, I get the error shown in the attached screenshot. Please note that I have already installed the Visual Cobol License Manager and activated the product on the Microfocus Site. How do I get past this installation error and start some coding in COBOL. #VisualCOBOL#COBOL#Installation#lice

I'm running the following environment: VisualCOBOL 9 Patch Update 2Micro Focus VS Code extension 1.0.57VS Code version 1.90.0 on Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows (10 and 11) The outlining feature does not work when a COBOL file is loaded into the editor.  The message "No symbols found in document <filename>.cbl" is displayed. Syntax highlighting is working, however there is no dynamic parsing of the source (I'm not sure if there should be - it's present for other languages such as shell scripts).  Nothiing ever shows up in the "Problems" tab. I seem to recall that code outlining worked for about 10 minutes after I installed the extension, but hasn't worked since.   I can't replicate this by reinstalling the extension. In addition CTRL-clicking on variables to see their definitions, CTRL clicking on paragraph or section names, or hovering over either of them does nothing either. There are no other enabled COBOL extensions installed. In short, the extension seems to b

Already tried both the 16 Alphanumeric / Serial numbers sent from email and the downloaded .XML file , same error  Visual COBOL Product License ERROR #VisualCOBOL

Recently new rmcobol licence installed and after that when I try to create SOAP style sheets (xsd, xsl etc) recompiling exisiting programs (no changes were made), I get error. So I tried to test as per the document here page 22 - https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/rm-cobol/10/xmltk10.pdf. Program - getstarted.cbl Identification Division. Program-Id. Getting-Started. Data Division. Working-Storage Section. 01 Customer-Address. 02 Name Pic X(128). 02 Address-1 Pic X(128). 02 Address-2 Pic X(128). 02 Address-3. 03 City Pic X(64). 03 State Pic X(2). 03 Zip Pic 9(5) Binary. then I give - rmcobol getstarted.cbl y  - which runs fine then I give - cobtoxml getstarted customer-address -bv Cobol Object File: /test/getstarted.cob Cobol Data Item Name: customer-address XML Document Names: /test/getstarted.[xsd,xsl,xtl] Options - Schema: XSDError: 12[0] - data item - not found[12] Is there any environment changes needed after installing new rmcobol licence?&nbsp

hello, I have had to install VC 9.0 2022 on a new PC, due to the failure of the previous PC, after installing VS2020 professional 17.1o and Windows SDK location = D:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus Visual COBOL\\Microsoft\\SDK\\10 version = 10.0.19041.0 Microsoft Build Tools location = D:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus Visual COBOL Microsoft version = 14.34.31933. I load VS2022, and no VC options appear in the IDE.I have tried to repair the VC installation, but it gives error 0x8007000a. How should I proceed to have a correct installation? Regards

Hi, we are currently migrating a big application from BS2000 mainframe to linux using MF Visual COBOL V9. There are indexed data files that contain 2 identical data sentences (completely identical - indentical primary key aswell) in mainframe. Is there any chance in MF VC to use ISAM files with non unique primary keys? Thanks in advance! Paul#Mainframe#COBOLMigration#ISAM#VisualCOBOL

I have to upgrade my Net Express project into Visual Cobol. So please let me know what licence do we need for Visual Cobol.

Good afternoon: I have an application in Microfocus Cobol - WPF that was working until a few hours ago. In the meantime, I've been updating some NuGet packages and, from that point on, when the application starts, it immediately gives an error that is as follows: " System.ArgumentException HResult=0x80070057 Message=An item with the same key has already been added. Source=mscorlib StackTrace: em System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource resource) em System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.Insert(TKey key, TValue value, Boolean add) em MS.Internal.Resources.ContentFileHelper.GetContentFiles(Assembly asm) em MS.Internal.Resources.ContentFileHelper.IsContentFile(String partName) em MS.Internal.AppModel.ResourceContainer.GetResourceManagerWrapper(Uri uri, String& partName, Boolean& isContentFile) em MS.Internal.AppModel\\ResourceContainer.cs:linha 138 em MS.Internal.AppModel.ResourceContainer.GetPartCore(Uri uri) em MS.Internal.AppModel\\ResourceCon

Hi  What is the next available patch update for Microfocus COBOL Server 8.0  that will update the security vulnerability of the openssl included. Current installed:cobol v8.0.0PRN=K1CRH/AAK:Ao.U4.13.04PTI=32/64 bitPTI=Micro Focus COBOL Server 8.0 - Patch Update 08PTI=Patch Update 08PTI=pkg_324515PTI=MFInstaller Scan vulnerability: Path : /opt/microfocus/VisualCOBOL/bin/openssl Reported version : 1.1.1t Fixed version : 1.1.1x Thanks,Aldous

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Hello Team, I am Currently in RM COBOL With ISAM File. We don't want to Use the ISAM Files anymore , So with Visual COBOL Migration How we can upgrade the ISAM File to Store in Database any RDBMS. Do you have any Tools or capabilities in VS COBOL which will directly connect to the RDBMS.  Please share a training video if you have.. Thanks.. #COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION

We are in the process to migrate 30 millons LOC written in Cobol Micro Focus using embedded SQL for Oracle, to use PostgreSQL database. We know that there are some open source pre compilers like gixsql, but we are interested in the official support from Micro Focus, is there a supported pre compiler for PostgreSQL?#PostGRESQL#precompliler

It is not easy to find the correct commands to control excel interface. With the Macro Recorder it is very easy to find the VBA-Commands! Now i search a converter from VBA to Cobol? Thanks for help!

I do not work with this program, but am trying to assist in a server migration that involved upgrading Syspro which utilizes Micro Focus components. Upon trying to run an install, I receive this error message: 0x81f40001 - Micro Focus COBOL Server 3.0 must be uninstalled before continuing.  I feel as if I have tried everything and removed everything I could find to no avail- I keep getting this error. Where does this live and how does one remove it?

Dear sirs, when I run the command: call cc74 'FindFirstFileA' using by reference findFileName *> lpFileName by reference WIN32-FIND-DATA *> lpFindFileData returning fileSearchHandle I'm getting an error 173 Called program file not found in directory/drive FindFirstFileA How do I solve this Att Rogerio Barbosa

I search a way to define in a excel-cell a formel and had problem to do this or to recognize this field/cell as formel Send data, text, date, values is not a problem. The given example "excel.cbl" is not very exhaustive, in msexcel.cpy are many information, but i don't have found the correct solution. Who is interessed to exchange information on the excel/office integration? who can help me for formel? (not managed cobol)

Hi, I wanted to check it's okay to have Net Express 5.1 and Visual COBOL 9.0 installed on the same laptop? Will initially be using VC native code and still supporting out Net Express application so I wasn't sure there will not be an issue with the rts. Thanks

I originally created this post a while ago : How to set Paper Size being passed from Printer Selection , and I never got it to work. Here is my code: PREPARE-PRINTER-WITH-STANDARD-PRINTER-DIALOG. CALL "P$SETDIALOG" USING PrintDialog. CALL "P$DisplayDialog". IF DIALOG-RETURN = 0    move SET-DEFAULT-PRINTER to default-option    move dpb-len of MyDefaultPrinterBrowser to dp-len    move dpb-body of MyDefaultPrinterBrowser(1:dp-len) o dp-body    call "PC_PRINTER_SET_DEFAULT" using by value default-option                                                                 by reference MyDefaultPrinter     PERFORM OPEN-PRINTER-PARA END-IF. What I would like to do is grab what was changed in the Windows Printer selection box, and have it prin

I am having an issue running a single program in my project.  I had made some changes to the WPF screen, and in the code as well. When I compile and run my software - when I execute my software, and select the program I changed from the menu, I get the below error message.  MicroFocus.COBOL.COBOLRuntimeException HResult=0x80131600 Message=198 Load failure [Program has an incompatible codepage dependency "PR450000" is using codepage Western European (Windows) but the main program "MSIMenu.App" is using Unicode (UTF-8) Please see documentation for more information.] I am not sure how to fix this - both my menu and the program being called (PR45000) both have this code in my WPF Screen  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> So I am not sure why it is saying this, and when I run any other program that is in the project - they all work correctly.  Where is it seeing that I have the codepage set to Western Europe (Windows) ?

Hello, I have a small C# application from a vendor that allows me to communicate with and receive data from an ID document scanner. I've already managed to "translate" some parts to Visual Cobol but there are others that give some errors in the conversion. Would it be possible for you to help me with this conversion? Thanks. Alberto Ferraz