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A software company that helps you develop, test, deploy, assess and modernize business-critical enterprise applications using COBOL, PL/I, REXX, JCL and CICS

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Is there actually COBOL in .NET?

I was checking Microsoft's Visual Studio page just now and in the advertisements sidebar I suddenly saw an incredible advertisement: "Net Express is a COBOL development environment for extending core business processes to the .NET Framework and…
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What does Cobol file status 9Â mean?

My issue is when I try to open on input a huge file (6GB) , there's a message that says: cobol file status code 9Â I compiled the program and it has no errors, but when I try to run it, I use a small one (3 GB for example) my program work…
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Use Fortify sourceanalyzer with CMake

I have a Makefile generated by CMake. The following path to CMake executable is set in the Makefile: CMAKE_COMMAND = /home/xyz/opt/cmake/cmake-3.1.1/bin/cmake How can I integrate Fortify sourceanalyzer with it and run scans?
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Decimals in COBOL

I'm very new to COBOL. I'm following the tutorials that came with Micro Focus and I can't seem to get the example to work right. I'm trying to print -123.45 and I keep getting the following, I looked up a number of posts on here and they don't…
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Getting reserved timeslot with ALM or Performance Center REST API

How can we get the list of the scheduled performances tests in ALM or Performance Center ? are these informations available from the REST API ? I have to develop a java application which will get these different timeslot and and add some other…
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Replacing chars in string

I have this code: inspect w-string1 replacing all x'C48D' by 'c' But I got this error by compiler Operand has wrong size Is there any solution how to replace more chars by one char thru inspect command. Or I must do it by myself via perform loop?
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MicroFocus cobol commands cobinit,cobcall and cobtidy are throwing errors in my C program

As per the documentation in Micro-focus support site, to call a cobol program from a C program we just need to follow the given below steps. main(int argv, char *argv) { cobinit(); /* Initialize COBOL environment */ cobcall("cobep", 0,…
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GNUCobol (OpenCOBOL) error: libcob: module '»' not found

I'm converting a set of COBOL programs written for Microfocus's compiler for use with GnuCobol. So far, I've been moderately successful, only having to change some microfocus-specific date commands, along with using GnuCobol's -std=mf argument. I'm…
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COBOL - Microfocus - Generic I/O

I am responsible for converting an old UNIX based COBOL batch application that was developed by a consultant back in the 1990s to a Windows environment but still in COBOL using Microfocus (Eclipse, etc). This is a pretty straight-forward task…
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Mixing Custom External File Handler with Micro Focus Default EXTFH

I have written a custom external file handler (EXTFH), but there are some cases where I want to revert to the Micro Focus EXTFH. The cases are on a file by file basis (as opposed to a filetype by filetype basis). My idea is that upon OPEN, I place…
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Target for make gives "nothing to be done"

I have an issue with "make" (Oh, the horror!). We're trying to migrate some COBOL code from Windows to Linux. The compiler and such are from Micro Focus. Under Windows the code is developed with Micro Focus Net Express. Linux has Micro Focus Server…
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Microfocus Cobol Animator Debugger

I am using the Microfocus animator tool and I am able to debug the cobol executable from putty. The cobol animator tool converts the executable into source code and highlights the current executing statement. But , the animator and the putty session…
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Static code analysis - Dependence map of Cobol.Net program

We have some Microfocus Cobol.Net applications. We would like to create a dependency map similar to what is available in NDepend. Does anyone know of a tool that is able to do this?
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Creating MsSql table from Cobol fd file

I have the following COBOL files: .DAT, .IDX and fd (file definition) file. We are using COBOL Net Express from MicroFocus. Now at first I would like to create MsSql table from this Cobol file definiton. The file defintion has this inside: FD …
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Unignoring a file in .gitignore is not working. I want GIT to unignore bin directory?

I have tried the following solution but .gitignore overriding the unignore line. !/bin/ after compilation, it overrides as follows !/bin/ /bin/
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