RE: Setting cobol tabs
There are some settings that you can try that affects this behavior. Look under Tool-->Options-->Text Editor-->Micro Focus COBOL-->Margins and ensure that the Home Key and End key...
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Is there a way to set specific tabs is Visual Cobol? Such as at 7, 8, 12, and 72. Under Tools/Options/Text editor/Micro focus cobol, the tabs button does not seem to give choices like that.
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Never mind, think I got it to go to 72 but changing something in the options/edit/microfocus/margins.Thanks, Chris!
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Chris, Please see below:SELECT MPS-QBEXPORT ASSIGN TO DISK, "C:/MPSDATA/MPS-QB-EXPORT.TXT" ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL FILE STATUS IS FSTAT....FD MPS-QBEXPORTLABEL RECORDS ARE...
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in Cobol workbench 3.x and netexpress 4.x or 5.x this has been solved with Switches as:set cobsw=-F-N (i mean that -N solve it), please test it and give a small response
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List of General Run-time SwitchesThe following general run-time switches are available:0, 1, 2, ... 8 Programmable switchesA1 Display trailing spacesB, B1 Skip locked recordC4 Sets screen into 43-line...
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I don't mean to sound old but I guess I really am... Could you please tell me how to set the environment variable in VS when the executable is built. The days of executing line item arguments are long...
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It is the file handler during the write that is inserting the null character before each tab and this is default behavior for line sequential files. In fact it will insert a null character before any...
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Chris... I am not versed in what you are indicating... I did add (-N) to the command line under properties of the actual .exe meaning myprog.exe (-N) ... At least now understand....Not to beat a dead...
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The following code generated the CRLF and FFLF correctly as 2 bytes. However the TAB also generated 2 bytes with the first byte being set to <null>... Question is how do I generate a single byte...
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where is the Problem Setting one time a command in the Environment:set cobsw=-Nand then your application works.Do you want to load your sequential files to Excel? why do you not use ole and passed this...
View ArticleRE: Single File Compile
Actually we added the Procedural Multi-Output project template to the managed code templates in 2.3 update 1, I believe, so you can have a managed code project where each individual program will...
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Hi , What are the compiler directives to create a .dll for the single program ? ( My code is a managed code , also unlike Native code we donot have option to create multiple executable in Managed code...
View ArticleVideos on Creating Web Services in Visual COBOL for Eclipse
There are 2 new Visual COBOL for Eclipse videos available on YouTube, related to creating Web Services from new or existing COBOL programs. The first demonstrates how to create a SOAP Web Service, and...
View Articlearithmetic statement and type decimal
Using an arithmetic statement with a variable of type decimal generates an error message ‘error COBCH0034 : Operand DECVALUE3 should be numeric’. Using the MOVE statement does not generate an error. I...
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Hi Werner,I have talked this over with development and we agree with your synopsis. Although a decimal type is not actually a numeric but is an object reference instead, it should not be too difficult...
View ArticleRE: Visual Studio Editor - Block Unindent
Hi Austin,I have recreated this problem using VS2015 as well. I opened up SI 2876148 for you and have raised an RPI with Development.I noticed that the behavior is different whether you are selecting...
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In Visual Studio 2013 (Version 12.0.40629.00 Update 5) editor, with [Micro Focus COBOL] Tabs set to 4 & 4 and Insert spaces on ....... you can highlight a block of code (that let's say starts in...
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