Forum Post: Packed Decimal
What is the purpose of packed decimal field and is it necessary with Visual Cobol? I have researched and cannot find any pros or cons on its use with Visual Cobol.
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Packed decimal in Visual Cobol is so that it is compatible with mainframe Cobol.
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Packed-decimal is a feature of standard COBOL; see e.g. ISO/IEC 1989:2002 (the 2002 version of the international COBOL standard) item 13.16.58.3 #10. It's not present simply for mainframe...
View ArticleForum Post: invoke error on oopsm.dll
Hi, I have program compiled in Enterprise developer for Eclipse 2.3 and run on COBOL Server Win 2012, $set ooctrl(+p)...
View ArticleFile: Book Demo for #COBOLrocks TechCasts
This is the demo file for the second and fourth webcasts in the #COBOLrocks TechCast series (registration coming soon) - #2: Upgrading from Net Express to Visual COBOL for Visual Studio; #4:...
View ArticleFile: COBOL to RDBMS Conversion demo
This is the demo file for the fifth webcast in the #COBOLrocks TechCast series (registration coming soon) - F rom COBOL to a relational database - ISAM to RDBMS. There are three zip files for use...
View ArticleForum Post: Inspect-Function in Visual-COBOL for eclipse 2.3
Hello, I noticed the following: Eclipse-Function "Inspect" in JVM-COBOL after move in simple numeric field: not ok Eclipse-Function "Inspect" in JVM-COBOL after move in simple text field: ok...
View ArticleForum Post: Spreadsheet xls
Bom dia, estou precisando criar uma planilha xls em um servidor web. Quando o usuário clicar na opção o sistema gera esta planilha, só que não posso utilizar interoperabilidade do Office. Estava...
View ArticleForum Post: Field Validation
Hello All, I am trying to resolve how to validate a text box (field) immediately after entry and to determine if the content is invalid. And if it is, to return the user to that field. I have tried...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Field Validation
I am not sure if I found it... but could it be the "Leave" event and then if my validation failed I could set the focus back to the field or set the focus to the next field ?
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Field Validation
In general, Yes, I have used the "Leave" event as the approach for doing validation of the contents of a textbox, and I would recommend this approach, assuming no extenuating circumstances.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Field Validation
Thanks Rusty... I will it try today... and post results... Thanks Again Allen
View ArticleForum Post: License Issue for Visual COBOL Personal Edition on REDHAT
I installed Visual COBOL Personal Edition 2.3 on RedHat Enterprise 7.2 Workstation successfully. I started License Manager. everything seems to be in place. When I started Eclipse, it shows Micro...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: License Issue for Visual COBOL Personal Edition on REDHAT
On Windows, When I started Visual COBOL Personal Edition 2.3 at first time, it asked me to use my email address to activate it. But on Linux. it did not load any COBOL plugins. So Eclipse never...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Field Validation
Thanks Rusty... The "Leave" event does the job... Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees... Happy Easter
View ArticleForum Post: MF COBOL help on GridView - onrowupdating
I have a GridView table that I loaded data into from codebehind, and it is working, here is my GridView code: asp:Gridview runat="server" ID="GridView1" style='z-index: 2; left: 0px;...
View ArticleComment on Visual COBOL 2.2 - REST Web Services Tutorial
Hi, Trying to get this example to work on my machine. I'm getting 2 errors: 1) Description Resource Path Location Type The public type BookId must be defined in its own file BookID.java...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: License Issue for Visual COBOL Personal Edition on REDHAT
I have validated on a 7.1 system that when you launch EclipsePE from RedHat Linux the first time, it should present a dialog box giving you the option of entering the authorization code, or entering...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: License Issue for Visual COBOL Personal Edition on REDHAT
Thank you in advance. I can show you what is on my RHEL 7.2 machine: xu4.ddns.net/.../Shell.png From shell command, I started Eclipse: xu4.ddns.net/.../Flash.png I can see MicroFocus logo and...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: License Issue for Visual COBOL Personal Edition on REDHAT
Hello jzhang18: I can reproduce the missing COBOL perspective, even though I start Eclipse from $COBDIR/bin/eclipse, if I do not have a license installed for the product. Using the license...
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