DELETE FILE ‘filename’ statement not removing both .dat and .idx files in...
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 3/8/2013 6:52:47 AMProblem:A problem was encountered opening indexed files after an application was upgraded from Net Express to...
View ArticlePrinting to a USB Printer and columns are not aligned
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 3/8/2013 6:54:29 AMProblem:Customer has a native Visual COBOL application that is using an OPEN to a printer which is a USB printer...
View ArticleProgram using ACCEPT/DISPLAY drops a character displayed on line 25 position 79
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 3/8/2013 6:58:23 AMProblem:Customer is using ACCEPT/DISPLAY statements in a Visual COBOL native program to perform screen I-O.The...
View ArticleProgram using OpenESQL gets compile errors when moving from Net Express to...
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 3/8/2013 7:31:05 AMProblem:Customer has a program that uses embedded SQL statements using the OpenESQL precompiler.This program...
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Setting link option /STACK in Visual COBOL for Visual Studio
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 3/8/2013 7:32:17 AMProblem:Customer is using Visual COBOL for Visual Studio and needs to increase the stack size that is linked into...
View ArticleStack Overflow Error in native Cobol
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 3/14/2013 9:58:38 AMProblem:During runtime you get Stack Overflow errors when Cobol DLLs are called. As the levels of inheritance...
View ArticleException occurs when native Dialog System program calls managed WinForm
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 3/19/2013 9:09:02 AMPROBLEM:Customer has a native Dialog System application that displays a window on which an ActiveX control...
View ArticleInterpreting the status-code returned by CBL_COPY_FILE
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 3/26/2013 8:36:59 AMPROBLEMUsing CBL_COPY_FILE returning status-code. 0 = successful non-0 = not successfulIs there a way to...
View Article.Net Class to Obtain Regional PC Settings
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/3/2013 5:58:12 AMProblemIn .Net how can COBOL find out the regional settings that are currently in use for a class. SolutionThe...
View ArticleASP.NET application gets RTS error 173 - "Program not Found" when attempting...
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/3/2013 6:02:04 AMProblem:Customer has an ASP.NET Web application written in Visual COBOL which does a call to an unmanaged COBOL...
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ASP.NET application gets RTS error 174 - "Imported File not found" when...
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/3/2013 6:02:26 AMProblemCustomer has created an ASP.NET Web Application in Visual COBOL which needs to do a P/Invoke call to an...
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Eclipse heap size 1
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/3/2013 6:05:53 AMProblemError “COBCH1501S Insufficient memory”Need to adjust Xms and Xmx settings in eclipse.iniSolutionIf you are...
View ArticleUNIX Visual COBOL for Eclipse won’t start
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/3/2013 6:08:36 AMProblemUNIX Visual COBOL for Eclipse won’t start ResolutionAfter investigation see below, for Oracle Linux...
View ArticleVisual COBOL and JAVA Integration
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/17/2013 5:19:03 AMProblemUnable to execute JAVA class or a COBOL JVM class on a UNIX machine. ResolutionThis simple example...
View ArticleExample Visual COBOL .NET program sending an e-mail with attachment using...
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/19/2013 7:47:58 AMProblemDoes anyone have an example of sending an e-mail including an attachment using Microsoft Outlook by using...
View ArticleIncreasing performance of index file I-O using sharing modes
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/19/2013 7:48:15 AMProblemCustomer is running a large batch process that performs a lot of file I-O on indexed files and they would...
View ArticleIncreasing performance when sequentially reading an indexed file
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/19/2013 7:48:41 AMProblemA customer has noticed that on a rather large indexed file, the performance seems to suffer when reading...
View ArticleIncreasing performance when using alternate keys in an indexed file
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/19/2013 7:49:03 AMProblemCustomer has an indexed file that has several alternate keys defined.They noticed that the performance of...
View ArticleOpenESQL database driver support
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/19/2013 7:49:30 AMProblemCustomer is moving from Net Express 5.1 native code to Visual COBOL 2.1 managed .NET code and they need to...
View ArticleProblem with SQL(DATE=EXTERNAL) directive no longer recognized in Visual...
Current Revision posted to Visual COBOL Knowledge Base by Angela on 4/19/2013 7:49:47 AMProblemIn Visual COBOL 2.1 Hotfix 2 a new OpenESQL directive called sql(date=external) was added to allow for the...
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