RE: Keyboard shortcut for toggling between two sets of COBOL code?
Thank you, kind sir. Worked like a charm.
View ArticleKeyboard shortcut for toggling between two sets of COBOL code?
I "enhanced" a program and screwed up something. As always, I had made a backup under a different name. Now I'm in Microsoft Visual Studio, navigating back and forth between the original code and the...
View ArticleInstallation Visual Cobol stops with 0x80004005 - unspecified error
Logfile:[01E8:01EC][2014-05-06T09:30:29]i001: Burn v3.7.1224.0, Windows v5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 3), path: E:\Downloads_von_C\Cobol_vce_22.exe, cmdline: ''[01E8:01EC][2014-05-06T09:30:29]i000:...
View ArticleRE: Copy/Replacing statement
During processing of COPY REPLACING the PICTURE string is parsed just like any other text in the input source, so that for instance the PICTURE string associated with MPPOLY-MM is broken up into...
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We have a copy/replacing statement where our intent is to change the 01 level to an 02 level.Here is the statement we are using, note the space before and after the 01 and 02 values.Copy "PrmPolcy.fd"...
View ArticleRE: Case sensitive
COBOL does not allow data names to differ only by case, but you can distinguish an instance or static field from a method local variable or parameter by using the self:: prefix like...
View ArticleRE: Case sensitive
The reason I was doing this was to stick to C# naming conventions. I will probably use self::fieldname or just change the name thanks.
View ArticleRE: Installation Visual Cobol stops with 0x80004005 - unspecified error
Is an actual error message displayed when this occurs?The log entries seem to indicate that this might be either a corrupted download file or that you have a space or permissions issues in your...
View ArticleRE: Case sensitive
Other .NET languages have similar constraints, most notably VB.NET. This has been recognised since the earliest days of .NET. Microsoft introduced the Common Language Specification (CLS) to ensure .NET...
View ArticleCase sensitive
How do I make variable case sensitive. I would like to make policyNumber and PolicyNumber different variables. How is that done? working-storagesection. 01...
View Articlerecord layouts
I would like to be able to use an FD record layout in a derived class. I don't want any instance of the class to be able to use the fields in the record layout so I have them marked as private. I...
View ArticleRE: record layouts
You can't directly mark groups, or members of groups as anything other than private. Only fields mapping directly onto managed types (binary-long, string object references) are allowed to have more...
View ArticleRE: [Poll] Would you like to launch your application without the need for a...
It would be nice if i can lauch a Cobol application without having to set the environment in a Linux environment too ;-)
View ArticleRE: record layouts
Do you know if there is a way to access the test-file in the derived class?
View ArticleRE: Managed Code Calling Naïve code
What type of managed code project is this, console, Winform, WPF or is it a ASP.NET mult-threaded web application?When you are in your processing loop do your subprograms always exit back to the...
View ArticleRE: Managed Code Calling Naïve code
It is a winform application. If the perform thrus and go to are in the naïve code not the managed code, would that still cause this issue?
View ArticleRE: Managed Code Calling Naïve code
It might.You might want to add the compiler directive PERFORM-TYPE"OSVS" to the native programs and see if this helps...
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