RE: Can Visual COBOL 2.1 (Web Developer 2010) read directly from an Excel...
You can open/create, read and update an Excel spreadsheet directly from a managed code application such as ASP.NET using the appropriate .NET Framework classes, i.e.,...
View ArticleRE: Visual COBOL Personal Edition
Are you still experiencing this problem?Can you please tell me what the exact error message is that you are receiving when you try to activate the license?We did have a problem in this area previously...
View ArticleRE: Data Items in CPY
Which Visual COBOL version are you using?Is it Visual COBOL 2.1 update 1 or an earlier release?If you are using VC 2.1 update 1 then you should really create a support incident with Customer Care and...
View ArticleRE: creating database in visual cobol personal edition
You can create your own SQL Server database using the SQL Server Express product that is installed with the Visual Studio 2010 product.You can write a COBOL program using embedded SQL statements by...
View ArticleRE: Visual Cobol - Event Handler (Visual Studio)
The problem that you are reporting sounds very much like an issue that I dealt with previously that has been fixed in the upcoming Visual COBOL 2.2 release.Please contact Micro Focus Customer Care and...
View ArticleRE: Visual Cobol - Event Handler (Visual Studio)
Thanks for the answer - I already notcied there are ATTACH and DETACH statements, but unforunately these are not supported in the cobol version we use.I will see that i report that issue.Thanks!
View ArticleRE: Visual COBOL Personal Edition
This problem has been resolved by sending the customer a new authorization code for his Visual COBOL Personal Edition product.
View ArticleRE: New - Need help
As soon as the program finishes, the output window closes. To make the output window persist, try putting a "stop" statement as the last line in the program. Example: display "Hello World". stop...
View ArticleRE: New - Need help
Starting with the upcoming release 2.2, the "stop" statement will no longer be needed in such a situation. The output window will wait user to press a key before end of execution and hiding the window.
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I just installed visual cobol for eclipse on windows and everything is running smooth. Im just trying to make a simple Hello world app that just displays Hello World in a console window. Every time i...
View ArticleRE: License
Yes, the licensing between Net Express and Visual COBOL can coexist without a problem.Visual COBOL uses Safenet licensing which is different from the licensing used by Net Express.You do need to be...
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I have a system on Net Express 3.1.11 that I am migrating to VC 2.1. I understand that the licenses are different between the two products. Can both licenses co-exist on the same server so that I can...
View ArticleRE: User defined functions
You can define the function within the same source file as the program that calls it.Here is an example: $set preservecase case repository(update ON) id division. function-id. myfunction. linkage...
View ArticleUser defined functions
Hello,I know it possible to define functions in a repository :mytest.cbl $set preservecase case identification division. program-id. mytest. environment division....
View ArticleRE: User defined functions
Thank you for the tip. I should have think about it !The only inconvenient in comparison to nested programs are the global/local variable. It can be useful to declare global variables used by a...
View ArticleRE: User defined functions
The reason why a function cannot be nested like a program is that it gets stored in the repository which is available to the entire run-unit and not just to one compilation unit.Although you cannot use...
View ArticleRE: Any way to force Visual Studio editor to exclusively use spaces, and to...
Tools->Options->Editor->Tabs
View ArticleAny way to force Visual Studio editor to exclusively use spaces, and to never...
I would like for there to be no TAB characters in my COBOL source listings, because I sometimes need to copy working-storage tables into Excel. The TAB characters cause my line of COBOL to be split...
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