MFVSSW variable
I see this can be used to 'modernize' dialog screens using unmanaged COBOL under Visual Studio. Can it be used in a development environment? It says to set the MFVSSW environment variable to "/c /f"...
View ArticlePassing FieldInfo to TextToColumns
Trying to convert an Excel column containing fixed width text to columns using COM server.How to pass FieldInfo? invoke ExcelObject "getRange" using z"A:A" returning CellRange....
View Articlesymbol mFt_xmlSchemaVInit
Any idea what this error message means? Load error : file 'cobrtxml.so'error code: 198, pc=0, call=1, seg=0198 error message text not found (mFt_xmlSchemaVInit)
View ArticleMultiple programs with same name
When using multiple programs with the same name in multiple projects of the 2017 Visual Studio I get "Class pgmname has multiple definitions". I've tried using a common location but that results in...
View ArticleAuthorisation code did not receive with the download of trial software.
Authorisation code did not receive with the download of trial software. Upon successful installation, software requires activation code and authorisation code. I could not activate without...
View ArticleCreating an execution
On my development PC I was able to create an executable - probably very crudely. We're talking 2017 Visual Studio and a solution with many projects. After looking at video's of the subject and...
View ArticleCalling NATIVE COBOL from cobjvm
I am working my way through "Visual COBOL, a developer's guide to modern cobol". I found an example on page 99 of "calling native code from managed COBOL". Now our environment is LINUX and we use...
View ArticlePerformance degradation of Native COBOL access to Excel 2016
We have a Native COBOL program that reads excel files using COM Automation. After upgrading Microsoft Office from 2010 to 2016, the program takes about twice as long.Processing the same 270 files...
View ArticleVisual Cobol - Dialog System - compataddpack_232
Hello,i'm getting an error when installing the compataddpack_232.msi (update 2) on a Windows 7 - 64 bit professional system.When installing the Micro Focus Compatibility AddPack for Visual Cobol Setup...
View ArticleVS 2017 not found VC 3.0
Today when installing an update of VS 2017 prof.(15.6.6), when restarting VS2007, it does not find anything referred to VC 3.0. I tried to repair VC 3.0, and run createenv.bat, but VS 2017 doesn't...
View ArticleCobJVM and MAVEN
Anyone have success with using the cobol compiler in -j mode under maven? I want to build a solution including both java classes and CobJVM source and I would like it to all be in one JAR file....
View ArticleDeleted from N records in delete 'where current of' in cursor for update and...
I have a cursor for update in microfocus, with connection to a database of db2. In the readings of the fetch, always read a single row, but when I'm going to do the delete / update of this with a where...
View ArticlePro*COBOL and Informix: cannot find "INFORMIXDIR"
I need to compile my COBOL file with Informix Embedded SQL, but preprocessor fails because of this error:CSQL-F-012: INFORMIXDIR must be set for Informix SupportI'm using Visual Studio 2017. The...
View ArticleCalling Unmanaged COBOL from Managed COBOL: System.AccessViolationException
I'm following the tutorial to call unmanaged COBOL code from managed COBOL, but I get this exception: "System.AccessViolationException".What is causing it?
View ArticleSearching for fix2kset.exe to install old MF Cobol 4.0
Hi, I'm new here and have a question for the older COBOL developers among us :)I have an old version of Micro Focus COBOL, it's version 4.0 for Windows 95/NT, including the License Key dongle which you...
View ArticleWinforms DataGridView to Excel
Hi,Is there a quick (.NET) way to output data from a Winform Datagridview "straight" into Excel?Many thanksNeil.
View ArticleAdding a signature file
We are using Visual COBOL on a Red Hat Linux Machine. Our programs are text based UI. We have been asked to start using a signature file on our checks. Can someone tell us how you would do this? What...
View ArticleLicense problem
I installed Visual Cobol for Visual Studio 2017 with a free personal license to do some tests.Now I have requested the 30 days complete trial (if needed, my support code is 600000740231).I found the...
View ArticleError 177 and 178 when the project tranferring from Net Express 5.1 to Visual...
Hi, Errors 177 and 178 occur when transferring project from Net Express 5.1 to Visual Cobol 3.0Error 177 COBES0100 : Statement incompatible with BEHAVIOR setting ELS004XI.cbl[ELS004XZ.CPY]...
View ArticleC# to Cobol
Im having a problem with one line below, can anyone advise ????the problem line is set worksheet = workbook::ActiveSheetfrom the c#workbook.ActiveSheet * // Creating a Excel object. *...
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