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CALL SYSTEM USING WS-COMMAND not working on microfocus COBOL on Enterprise server
I have a requirement to call a powershell script from microfocus COBOL running on Enterprise server.
The sample script is below:
echo "Hello World " | Out-File -FilePath
"C:\test.txt"
I have added the powershell to be executed from…

Sushovan Dutta
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Alternative or Equivalent Product for GUI ScreenIO required for Microfocus Cobol
We are working on a project that involves the conversion of old DOS based screen panels to Windows based graphical user interface using GUI Screen IO.
We got in touch with the company recently to purchase the software but company is apparently in…
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Error 249 (Process killed (by mfunit)) when running a unit test in Microfocus Visual COBOL for Eclipse
I have a simple COBOL program (inside a Visual Cobol for Eclipse project), which calculates the maximum size of the binary gap and prints the result. Now I want to create a unit test and then modify the program so that the result is returned to the…

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Microfocus cobol is not able to connect to postgres using DSN
I am working on Microfocus COBOL code on UNIX box and trying to connect to Postgres database using a system DSN which is already being created and for connecting to that Database I am executing below SQL Query in our code:-
EXEC SQL CONNECT TO…

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Powershell Error creating entry through WSDL SOAP connection
So I am getting a conversion error when submitting something via WSDL SOAP in PowerShell.
I am trying to create entries in a system called Kablink however although the entry has all the values etc. in the variable $soapData when I attempt the…

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switch between applications in silk4j
I have a test thant launches a desktop application and from this application a browser application with authentication window is launched. The problem is when running the test it executes all steps that are related to the desktop application and…

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COBOL Replace the first line in a file without using OPEN I-O and REWRITE
Say that I have a file with the below format
record line 1
record line 2
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record line n
I'll have to open this file and change the value of n to another value based on some logic. After change my file should look…

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Disable SSLv3 on Orbix 6.3 services
What is the correct way to disable SSLv3 on Orbix 6.3 services? I am new to Orbix and I was recently given an environment to support on one of our servers. My task is to disable SSLv3 which is still supported on the environment.
Per the…

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Start - Process : A position parameter cannot be found that accepts argument
I'm getting the above error when trying to run from powershell.
start /wait "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\SafeNet Sentinel\Sentinel RMS License Manager\WinNT\cesadmintool" -term install -f FileName

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How to read compressed idxformat 8 MFCobol
I have raw microfocus cobol data file and copybook from old unix server. And wants to read it raw on pc without cobol.
As I scan the file header, found out this is idx format 8 file with compression. How to read this file?

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HPQC - RecordSet Not Displaying All Data
I am using HP (Microfocus) Quality Center 12.5 and designed a button using the toolbar in Workflow.
The following code pulls the first value from the RecordSet but not all values. How do I pull all values from the RecordSet and display it?
Sub…

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Microfocus Net Express COBOL, Replace PERFORM PARA with actual code
I'm using Net Express 5.1. I want to know if it is possible to replace PERFORM PARA with the actual paragraph code. In the .lst file, we get all the COPY statements expanded and I want the same for PERFORM statement.
If yes please tell me what are…

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C# windows forms app using process.start on Windows XP Virtual machine
Here is the situation. We have a very old COBOL exe that will only run on Windows XP. In order to run this exe we have set up a virtual XP machine. Each week the user runs a series of BAT files.
I'm trying to write a C# Windows app that will run on…

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Parsing Micro Focus XML in COBOL variables
I have the following xml-structure that I want to parse in Cobol.
1 //OD 1'st occurrence
1 //OLD 1'st occurrence
2 //OLD 2'nd occurrence
3 //OLD 3'rd occurrence
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SunSystems debugging
please I am debugging cobol program on SunSystems 5.2.1 via MF Net Express 3.1.11 SP1. So I am on virtual machine with Windows XP.
But on debug when I am not quick enough I got this message: "The sunsystems server is unavailable. Since there are no…

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