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I have Visual Cobol Personal Edition I had an Internet outage on my Win/8 laptop and could not open Project1 (I am trying to 'get started' with this product) Once the connection was made true again, I could open Project1 Why is that?  

Is there a way to tell Eclipse that Echo is a reserved word for Accept Statements, which it is for RM Cobol (Until I remove them all). Either Eclipse tells me that every ECHO is an error, or I add Echo to the Working Storage, which makes Eclipse happy, but then the Program won't build because I have a Reserved Word in Working Storage ... I can ignore the Error messages for ECHO, but we have a prompt heavy system, and I won't be able to use Eclipses find error features. I just need to tell Eclipse that ECHO is ok, for now. #SyntaxErrors#rm#VisualCOBOL#Eclipse

I am running windows 8.1 with Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. When I try to install Visual Cobol I am getting the following errors 0x80048bc7. Am I correct in assuming that VS2013 is the cause of my issue?

I'm currently working in a project to run COBOL applications in windows 7 and windows 8.  The application runs flawless in windows 7 but I cant make it work in windows 8. Any idea how to deal with this?#COBOL#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION

Getting this error on installation after I have switch development laptops.  Current VC version is 2.2.01220. Is there an update to the COBOL server that I need for the client or another issue. Thanks Kevin Peters

Greetings, I had recently requested a download of Visual Cobol. However when I clicked on the link I was taken to a 404-error page. When I reported this back to the origination email an automated response directed me here for assistance....

You should have received the license files as part of your order. These files have the format xxxxxxx.mflic. Save this file to the machine where they must be installed.                         Open the License Administrator, go to the “Install” tab, browse the mflic file, click on Open and then Install Licenses. Alternatively, you can drag/drop the mflic file onto the license file box or copy/paste the licenses into the box below: If the license is successfully imported, you should get the following message: You should now be able to see the license installed in the Summary tab: If in the future you need to move the license to another station, just click on Remove and the license will be uninstalled.   If you have concurrent licenses installed in a server and you need to point the clients to the server, please follow these steps from the client machine: 1. Open the License Administrator> go to Options> Advanced C

in Visual Basic to improve readability of code you can define regions like #Region "Tab1_Instructions" method-id read... method-id write... etc. #End Region which are collapsible. Is there an equivalent in Visual Cobol? Just collapsing methods is no real alternative.#region

Hi, I'm an SW architect and we are moving our legacy cobol to Visual Cobol under Jboss. This legacy application has a custom persistence layer which is generated using a custom tool. Which are my options if I want to remove this custom persistence layer? Hibernate? OpenESQL? Isn't there something like hibernate for Cobol? Thank you, Mats

Is there any method in Visual COBOL to do Code Page converison for File CP1250(windows code page) to CP852 (DOS code page). Thanks, Partha!#VisualCobolManaged#VisualCOBOL#COBOLOrion#VisualCOBOLautoscalemodescreenresolution#eclipsevisualcobolvariablesviewencoding#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION#COBOLFILE#COBOL#VisualCobolwithEclpiseunderSUSE13.1

Is there away to install the Visual Cobol documention into the Visual Studio 2012 IDE? I have downloaded 2 files from the MicroFocus website, one has a .jar extention and the other a .chm extension but I can't figure how to install either one into the IDE. The webbased training shows it installed in Visual Studio 2010 but 2012 is different.   Thanks

I am going through the Web based training. In module 1 Visual Cobol Getting Started there are 3 DEMO's listed in the table of contents, but when I select any of them nothing happens, the area to the right of the screen is blank. Am I missing something?   Thanks

I don’t get the correct format when binding a decimal value in a DataGrid Column with ConverterCulture=de-CH. I think that the resulting format is correct for Germany but not for Switzerland. Can anybody help?

Hello - we're considering a webinar series focusing on OO COBOL for use in .NET and JVM. We'd look to start from the ground up, covering basic concepts through to UI modernization.  If you'd attend such a webinar series please state that in the attached poll. Many thanks [Poll]

I have a subprogram that uses the functions             call-convention 66 is dynamicWINAPI             call-convention 74 is cc74 but to include it in .NET project has an error             call cc74 'FindFirstFileA'                 by using reference findFileName                       by reference WIN32-FIND-DATA                 returning fileSearchHandle How to solve this problem?

I'm starting the progress of migrating RM Cobol (Linux) to RM Cobol/Visual Cobol(Linux) with Eclipse (Windows) I've discovered the option to set the compiler directives in a file cobol.dir and have that control some of the compile, build and file options. I was wondering what is the compiler directive for the cobol.dir to tell it to use RM. I know its completely lazy, because I can change the Dialect in the Build Properties ... but I'm intending of doing somewhere north of 1600 programs, and anything that will allow me to move these from RM with a Text DE to RM with a Visual IDE would be helpful. I know my cobol.dir is working because I've moved the idxformat"21" to it for RM File access, as opposed to having the set command in the programs. Any tips for how to accomplish this ... any warnings for doing it this way? Long Term the plan is to move from RM Text DE to RM Eclipse to VC Eclipse ... but for now I need to learn Eclipse and start using it regularly which will involve me gett

Hello, I have VS6, VS 2008, VS 2010, VS 2012 and VS 2013 on Windows 7 Ultimate computer. After installing Visual COBOL PE for VS 2012 and when I open VS 2012 Pro, I get this error: This only happens in VS 2012. I can open and create new solutions and everything seems to work otherwise. I tried Googling and searching for a solution and could not find an answer. Does anybody know how to get rid of this error? Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks, Tony

Hi Everybody, I downloaded the VisualCobol Academic Courseware and couldn't run the COBOLClass to extract the sample files. Any help would be appreciate it.

Everytime I try to install the Visual COBOL, I encounter the following error 0x80070643 (This application requires 32-bit Oracle Java 1.6 or later. Plase install Oracle Java and then run this installer again.). I have the following installed versions (1.7 and 1.8) and working properly, still the error persists at the time of installation. Português: Toda vez que tento instalar o Visual COBOL, me deparo com o seguinte erro 0x80070643 (This application requires 32-bit Oracle Java 1.6 or later. Plase install Oracle Java and then run this installer again.). Tenho as versões (1.7 e 1.8) instaladas e funcionando corretamente, mesmo assim o erro persiste na hora da instalação.#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION

When I try to install Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2010, I keep getting an error that says 0x800713c - Asia. Any ideas how to fix this.#visuastudio#error13filenotfoundvisualcobol#help#0x800713ec-Asia

The PadRight() method for strings only seems to work with hard coded numbers. 01 str1 as string value "hello". 01 str2 as string. set str2 to str1::PadRight(10)   *> this works fine declare pad as string = 10 set str2 to str1::PadRight(pad)   *> this doesn't work - no trailing spaces in returned string Am I doing this wrong or is this a bug?#stringspacespadding#VisualCobolManaged

I was a COBOL-programmer between 1989 and 1995Started with MF COBOL / Eclipse a few days agoGot strange behaviour and can not find any explanation in the manuals/websiteJust some test program to get the COBOL-feeling again ...Input is ASCII TXT file on MS-Windows 8.1 = 13 chars CR/LF = 15Output of first line is 13 chars CR/LF = 15following records are 5 spaces 13 chars CR/LF = 20First line of output is correct data (13 chars) but record length = 15, not 20 as supposed to be by the record description outfile-record   (part A and B)Why ? Best regards,J.M. Lietaer Input is  (data CR/LF = 15 chars) test line 001test line 002test line 003test line 004test line 005 CR/LF Output is  (data CR/LF = 20 chars) test line 001     test line 002     test line 003     test line 004     test line 005 5 spaces and CR/LF COBOL -program is ... ****************************************************************** IDEN

Hello, when using embedded SQL in JVM-Cobol I do have the problem that most of the existing Cobolsources (> 8000) do not have the "FullQualified"  Tablename in the FROM Clause of their SQL-Statements. With "native" Cobol it takes the username as the default Schema Qualifier. And if this is not sufficent it is possible to set QUALIFIER (as an SQL-Compiler Option). This is not working with managed Cobol anymore.  I do want to avoid the need to change all SQL-Statements to fully qualify the tablename.  Does anybody have the same problem and if yes .... maybe a solution ? Kind regards Michael#SQL#VisualCOBOL

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Hello, I am trying to download the COBOL compiler but never received an email with a link.  Also the Support Line seems to be down.  Thank you for your assistance.