RE: Field Lenght
Partha,Can you explain in more detail what it is that you want to achieve ? A cursor can only ever be one character wide on a character mode display (which I am assuming given the other question you...
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
I will implement this suggestion. I was trying to set cobconfig from within the program itself and that seems to be my problem. Since I was not using a command line compiler like I did in the old days,...
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
Mozdzierz,Setting cobconfig from within the program did not work because the file is read when the COBOL run-time system starts up. Once you are in the COBOL program it has already started so it is too...
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
Thank you for the added information and I will check that as well. I did exactly that to set the variable in windows. On another note, when I look at the properties in Visual Studio for my program, the...
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
I have been fighting with the VA, so my mind is not all there right now. This is one of the reasons why I decided to mess around with my old programs, is to forget about it for a while. So, I forgot to...
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
Apologies mozdzierz, I assumed that you were working with a native code project since you referred to setting cobconfig but the exception indicates that you are running a managed code program which...
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
No apologies necessary, since I am new to MF Cobol for Visual Studio, the fault lies with me for not being versed on the proper procedures and explaining to others the context of my project. I will...
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
Well, like the other option for configuration, the add tab in solutions Explorer for what I choose as an empty Cobol project is not an option I can choose, since it is grey. Any suggestions? I actually...
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
I just noticed that I can choose the add option with the program that was run to a file and then choose the correct part of my project and the option was a choice. I will now work on getting it to work...
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
I just found out that I was in debug when I tried to add the item and that is why it was not a choice.
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
That was the ticket! Now all I have to do is format the output and I saw another post with that help and I hope it is as straight forward as your help was. If I have trouble with that, I will start a...
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
I see that that is in the also tunable in the config file.
View ArticleRE: Getting cobconfig to work.
Sorry for the intrusion, in older versions of MF Cobol the environment variable for Run-time tunables was "COBCONFIG_" (with the underscore at the end).
View ArticleGetting cobconfig to work.
I saw a post on how to get MF Visual Cobol to print to a USB printer, instead of the default LPT1. However, it was not as descriptive as I would have hoped. Since I have not worked with Cobol since...
View ArticleRE: External Defined Dataname
There is a known limitation when trying to do a hover or watch or quick watch on a variable that is defined as part of a data file record where that file is itself defined as being external.This...
View ArticleRE: Populate array with "occurs any"
Steve,Can you please open up a support incident with Customer Care for this problem?We will also need the actual Visual Studio solution that you are using zipped up and attached to the incident so that...
View ArticleDeploying Visual COBOL in COBOL Server
We do have a visual COBOL solution(contains 9 different projects) which is accessed from a .net application. While building the Visual COBOL solution in release mode, the 9 dlls for each project is...
View ArticleFile Comparison Utility.
Could you please suggest if there any File Comparison Utility Available in VISUAL COBOL 2.2 version. It will be great help also if any such programs can also aviable in this group.
View ArticleRE: Populate array with "occurs any"
Hi ChrisThanks for your reply. A support incident has been opened for this with Customer Care, and I have supplied the solution to them. Customer Care suggested posing the question on this forum as...
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