Forum Post: RE: Comp-X behavior
Yes, the value 1099511627775 is 13 digits, but the type of the data item described by Pic X(05) Comp-X is 12 digits, and that is what is relevant in a move from numeric to alphanumeric. Micro Focus...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Comp-X behavior
Sorry I meant off by 1 digit. Acucobol is relevant since that is what we are trying to convert from. Another reason not to convert.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: setting default parm - using MailPriority
There does seem to be a bug here, though so far I have not been able to reproduce the error as you describe. I extended the example to this: class-id a. 01 EmailPriority type MailPriority static....
View ArticleForum Post: activating personal edition
I could not download vs cobol pe from mf site went to cnet I did register, however, trying to down load from mf site.In the email I got there was no activation code. How can I activate. Also, Visual...
View ArticleForum Post: Setting directory path in Visual Cobol for .NET
Is there a way in Visual Cobol for .NET to specify a directory path somewhere in the project properties? As an example, we have a copybook in a program as follows: K:EMPESLCT.WS The K: drive on our...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: activating personal edition
I just tested the download of Visual COBOL PE from the Micro Focus site and I did not have a problem. I used the following link www.microfocus.com/.../index.aspx What was the problem that you had in...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: activating personal edition
Chris, I am running under VMware from my mac does this make a difference? John
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Setting directory path in Visual Cobol for .NET
Hi Chris, You should be able to add the folder in which the copybook is actually located to the Dependency Path tab of the project properties and it should find the copybook even if it is referenced...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: activating personal edition
It shouldn't make a difference as long as you have an internet connection available from the vmware machine. What version of Windows is running on the VM? The file that you should be downloading and...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Setting directory path in Visual Cobol for .NET
Hey Chris, You are the man! That worked like a charm. Now, can something similar be done if we have data files in different directories for the same project? ex: F:\data\proj1\master...
View ArticleForum Post: OpenESQL Assistant with ADO.NET
Hi, Could anybody please help me in automating this task using the OpenESQL Assistant for ADO.NET mode, since I have to rewrite the same code every time with slight changes such a cursor name and the...
View ArticleForum Post: Procedural Multi-Output Project
Hi, What is this type of project "Procedural Multi-Output Project" is all about? When should I use it and how to? Regards
View ArticleForum Post: Mapping COBOL Records in C#
Hi, I'm trying to call a procedural COBOL program that is using a COBOL record, in C# the record is represented as String so how can I manipulate the record and be able to fill it and extract it as...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Mapping COBOL Records in C#
In the runtime services they is a type called MarshallUtils that allows you to marshall a struct to a byte[] and back, alternatively use the ILSMARTLINKAGE directive and this will generate extra types...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Mapping COBOL Records in C#
Thank you very much spgennard. I am gandalfing through the docs and it's amazing especially this part "Compiling with ILSMARTLINKAGE exposes the group item in the program as a new class, and the group...
View ArticleForum Post: Failure at ILASM Phase
I've got this error when I was trying to build the library, it's at the goback keyword -verb- program-id. ExecuteTransaction as "CoreBanking.Transactions.ExecuteTransaction". data...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Setting directory path in Visual Cobol for .NET
Well if you only specified the filename in the select such as: select test-file assign to "EMPLOYEE.DAT" Then you could set the environment variable COBDATA to point to the location of the file such...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: OpenESQL Assistant with ADO.NET
Hi Ahmet, The OpenESQL Assistant can be used for automating the code generation for some of the commonly used tasks but it does not support every possible code scenario. The scenario that you present...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Procedural Multi-Output Project
Normally managed code projects are built into a single output file regardless of how many programs exist within the project. All of these programs will be compiled and then output to a single assembly...
View ArticleForum Post: Duplicate Field Delcaration
Hi, First of all, I am running out of time due to the continuous failures for no reason!!! This time I have this: ------ Build started: Project: BusinessLogic, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------ *...
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