Forum Post: RE: Calling Managed COBOL from C#
What product and version are you using? If you are using Managed Mainframe Subsystem Application templates then I assume you are using Enterprise Developer and not Visual COBOL is that correct?
View ArticleForum Post: RE: error: Visual Studio cannot debug because the debug target is...
The error is saying that either the compile and build failed so that it did not create the .EXE specified or that it could not place it into the specified folder. Can you use Windows Explorer and see...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: BLINK
The BLINK attribute (Flashing) text isn't supported by Microsoft's console APIs, so instead of blinking you get a high intensity background color, e.g. black becomes grey. On which Operating System...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Visual Cobol connect DB2
In order to access DB2 from your embedded SQL programs you need to turn on the correct compiler directives. This can be done within a project's property page or within the program itself. Please see...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Legacy migration
You should talk to your Account Manager about possibly upgrading to Visual COBOL. Visual COBOL can install into Visual Studio and you can create full managed code .NET applications or it can install...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: cobrun k0
Hello mf_galberico, A few questions for you: 1. What are the permissions on your file /swlocal/microfocus/cobol/etc/cobver, as revealed by using "ls -l"? 2. Do you have any special security in place?...
View ArticleForum Post: Visual COBOL PE v2.3 Versions
I'm just now installing Visual COBOL PE 2.3. The only download option seems to be for the Visual Studio Edition. The installer stops to tell me I have to install Visual Studio version 2015. I'm...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Visual COBOL PE v2.3 Versions
Visual COBOL PE is available for both Visual Studio and Eclipse. If you go to www.microfocus.com/.../personal-edition and then click the Trial Download button in the top right-hand corner it will...
View ArticleForum Post: VC 2.1 to 2.3
Hi We are upgrading an application from Visual Cobol 2.1 on Windows XP to Visual Cobol 2.3 on Windows 10. The application consists of windows forms projects and native code programs compiled as...
View ArticleForum Post: signed number in rm and mf
I have a microfocus cobol program that is reading an rm file. One of the "columns" is a S9V9999 field. if the rm world I would copy it to a pic 99.9999 and the value is readable. The value 0050{ gets...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: VC 2.1 to 2.3
It sounds like the instructions for the free trial download may be a bit out of date as all three versions are available for download, 2012, 2013 and 2015. It is really up to you which version of the...
View ArticleForum Post: Upgrading
This is my current configuration. Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Shell (Integrated) Version 11.0.61219.0 Q11REL Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.6.01055 Installed Version: IDE Standard Micro Focus...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Upgrading
If you upgraded to Visual COBOL 2.3 update 2 you would have to recompile your applications and upgrade your users to COBOL Server 2.3 update 2 as well. We relinked our run-time system at version 2.3...
View ArticleForum Post: open an rm file for writing from mf
I have a mf cobol program that reads items from an indexed rm file. The filetype is set to 21. trying to open a file for output gives a file status error of 93. Reading the file works find but...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: open an rm file for writing from mf
Hello, I can do an open output without an issue with filetype(21) from an MF COBOL program. I am running Visual COBOL 2.3 Update 1. What version are you running? Regards,
View ArticleForum Post: RE: open an rm file for writing from mf
I am running version Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.3 Version 2.3.02187. If I use a different file, I can write to the file however I am opening (and closing) a file for input in one procedure then...
View ArticleForum Post: c# to vc
Hi! hat is this C# Code in VC? RibbonMenuItem rmi = sender as RibbonMenuItem ; RibbonButton rb = rmi . DataContext as RibbonButton ; if ( rb ! = null && ! rb . IsEnabled ) rmi ....
View ArticleForum Post: RE: open an rm file for writing from mf
It sounds to me like the file isn't being closed after the original open input which would cause the open output to fail. Please trace through your code and make sure that the close statement for that...
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