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View ArticleRE: Compiling Visual Cobol 2.2 with Oracle
Hi Jose,What does the second directives file contain?The error message is pointing to a completely different directives file than the ones that you show in your $SET statements.$SET...
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RE: Compiling Visual Cobol 2.2 with Oracle
This piece of text is a part of the message that the compiler shows on screen.Here is the screen with complete message.The second directives file contains only directives for the compiler.
View ArticleRE: Compiling Visual Cobol 2.2 with Oracle
Sorry but I think that the screen was not included.This is the content of .LST file.* Micro Focus COBOL          V2.2 revision 000 03-Oct-14 10:44 Page  1* /MNG/DESA/VFUENTES/ATS/TST1F830.CBL*...
View ArticleRE: Compiling Visual Cobol 2.2 with Oracle
The lst file shows in the list of directives the "endp" directive which is actually supposed to have a matching "p" directive to turn on the precompiler.p(cobsql) should contain options and then end...
View ArticleRE: Compiling Visual Cobol 2.2 with Oracle
The p (preprocess) compiler directive is documented as "$SET Â On very first source line only". Â I think that is your problem.
View ArticleRE: Compiling Visual Cobol 2.2 with Oracle
This is the content of the first directives  file:p(cobsql) csqlt=oracle8 nomakesyn end-c comp5=no sqlcheck=full mode=oracle dbms=V8 varchar=yes unsafe_null=yes close_on_commit=no end_of_fetch=1043...
View ArticleRE: Compiling Visual Cobol 2.2 with Oracle
Yes this directive is in the first directives files.
View ArticleRE: Compiling Visual Cobol 2.2 with Oracle
The directives file must be referenced on the "very first line". Â Your program has a comment line as the very first line, followed by the $SET USE directive. Â Thus, the P directive is not the very...
View ArticleCompiling Visual Cobol 2.2 with Oracle
We are having problem to compiling Visual Cobol 2.2 with SQL embedded (Oracle).We are not using neither Eclipse nor .NET environment development.We are compiling using a script, setting de compiler...
View ArticleVisual Cobol personal edition debugging
Hi, when I try to start debugging with Visual Cobol Personal Edition (VS2012) I get "Unable to start debugging" (critical error). Someone else got the same error? Some idea before trying to...
View ArticleVisual COBOL Personal Edition - Windows 8 - how to Compile and then Run
I have been using Net Express 4.0 for many years and it is an excellent productI want to be able to do the same with the new Personal Edition of Visual COBOL that I have on Win/8I am at the stage where...
View ArticleTest insert update success
HI,I have many question to post because I returned to Cobol years later. The most important question regards the database pre-compiler. In particular:1) With EXEC SQL Can I set isolation level and...
View ArticleRE: Visual COBOL Personal Edition - Windows 8 - how to Compile and then Run
Hi Paul,Try this first of all:Start up Visual Studio.File -> New ProjectChoose the native console application project template:Add a DISPLAY "hello world"Use the build menu and then debug menu to...
View ArticleRE: Visual Cobol personal edition debugging
Hi Claudio,I am afraid that you will have to give us some more information as this is not a known problem.On what OS do you have this installed?Which version of Visual COBOL is this 2.2?Does the...
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Hi Claudio,I am assuming that your are using a native code project on Windows and you are using ODBC with OpenESQL, is that correct?You can set the isolation level for a transaction in several...
View ArticleRE: Visual COBOL Personal Edition - Windows 8 - how to Compile and then Run
Hi ScotThanks for those simple instructionsI followed them and I had successI am now starting to understand the 'BUILD' process and the 'DEBUG' processAnd the Add Existing Item was also key...
View ArticleRE: Visual Cobol personal edition debugging
Hi Chris,thank you for your answers. I have downloaded "Visual Cobol for Visual Studio Personal Edition v.2.2 0".It runs on Window 8.1 64 bit (Pentium x64). I do not have a web server on the machine so...
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According to a number of posts from Microsoft this problem appears to be caused by an installation problem that occurred during the install of Visual Studio or of one of the Visual Studio service...
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