The Visual COBOL v2.1 documentation states that the return parameter for the C$SetEnv RM library call within is optional.
Syntax:
CALL "C$SetEnv" USING name, value [, return]
Parameters:
name PIC X(n)
value PIC X(n)
return PIC 9(n) BINARY, where n can be a digit from 1 to 9
However if the "return" parameter is not used an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds Exception occurs.
To run the RM/COBOL library routines provided in Visual COBOL, you set the DIALECT(RM) Compiler directive, which sets the required calling convention. To run the Visual COBOL library routines, you use the standard COBOL calling convention.
If you have RM/COBOL compatible library routines and Visual COBOL library routines in the same program this can be a problem because of the different calling conventions.
If you have RM/COBOL compatible library routines and Visual COBOL library routines in the same program, do one of the following:
• Set the DIALECT(RM) Compiler directive to enable the RM/COBOL library routines, then explicitly use the standard COBOL calling convention for the Visual COBOL library routines. For example :
$SET DIALECT(RM) IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. CTEST2. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. CONFIGURATION SECTION. SPECIAL-NAMES. CALL-CONVENTION 0 IS Microsoft-c DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. LINKAGE SECTION. 01 ARG-1 PIC X(4). 01 ARG-2 PIC X(8). 01 ARG-3 PIC X(8). 01 ARG-4 PIC X(8). PROCEDURE DIVISION USING ARG-1 ARG-2 ARG-3 ARG-4. MAIN-LOGIC. CALL Microsoft-c "SYSTEM" USING ARG-1. CALL "C$getEnv" using ARG-1 ARG-2 ARG3.
• Explicitly use the 1024 calling convention for calls to the RM/COBOL compatible library routines if DIALECT(RM) is not set.
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. CTEST2. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. CONFIGURATION SECTION. SPECIAL-NAMES. CALL-CONVENTION 1024 IS RM. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. LINKAGE SECTION. 01 ARG-1 PIC X(4). 01 ARG-2 PIC X(8). 01 ARG-3 PIC X(8). 01 ARG-4 PIC X(8). PROCEDURE DIVISION USING ARG-1 ARG-2 ARG-3 ARG-4. MAIN-LOGIC. CALL "SYSTEM" USING ARG-1. CALL RM "C$getEnv" using ARG-1 ARG-2 ARG3.
NB : RM(GIVING) was deprecated in v2.1, is replaced by DIALECT(RM)
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2. Right click on the option "More information" and save the license file to your desired location.
3. Copy the license file to the machine where your product is installed
4. Open the license file in notepad
5. From the start menu run the Micro Focus ‘License Management System’… 6. Select Options > Manual Authorization… 7. Copy and then paste the contents of the license file into the ‘License string(s)’ box… 8. Click on the ‘Install Licenses’ button.
Please contact Micro Focus SupportLine if you have any additional questions.
The RM/COBOL Use Count Utility(rmucutil) is used to check how many use count licenses are in use on the network. The RM/COBOL Use Count Utility(rmucutil) can be found in the RM/COBOL installation directory.
Below is the usage information for the RM/COBOL Use Count Utility(rmucutil):
rmucutil [COMPILER|RUNTIME] DETAILS
*The Registration Number for your product can be found by running either of the following commands: "runcobol" or "rmcobol"
In addition, the environment variable RM_UC_LOG_PATH can be set to a directory, so RM/COBOL will create a RMUSECNT.LOG file, which will contain similar diagnostic messages.
For example, for Windows systems, setting RM_UC_LOG_PATH=C:\TMP will cause RM/COBOL to create and write C:\TMP\RMUSECNT.LOG.
Rumba 8.2 is IPv6 aware now. So what is happening is that Rumba is asking the stack to resolve "localhost", and it's returning "::1", the IPv6 loopback address. Rumba attempts to connect to that address, but the Server application is only bound to the IPv4 address, so there is no response to the connect attempt. If you look in your hosts file (Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts), there is a commented entry for both localhost types there:
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
If you uncomment the 127.0.0.1 entry, it works.
· Launch a Rumba Printer session. Right click on the PC Queues and select “Configure PC Printer Queues…” from the pop-up menu.
· It presents a dialog with a single entry for the update interval as shown in the image.
· Change the update interval as desired. For instance, if you enter the number 60 then Rumba will send a status update query every 60 seconds to the printers displayed in the Printer Queues section.
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2. Right click on the word “here" as highlighted below and select Save Target As… to save the license file to your desired location. 3. Copy the license file to every users' machine (or a single network location from where your end users can access the license file) 4. Using the automation tool of your choice, launch the following command on the workstation: CesAdminToolCmd -install The CesAdminToolCmd needs to be run on each workstation where you wish to deploy a standalone RUMBA license. Where is the path and file name where you saved the .txt license file in Step 2. The CesAdminToolCmd command is located in the directory \Program Files (x86)\Common Files\SafeNet Sentinel\Sentinel RMS License Manager\WinNT. Please contact Micro Focus SupportLine if you have any additional questions.
OBJECTX® Thread Safety Summary This technical bulletin answers multi-threading questions about RUMBA OBJECTX, Pro controls.
Thread Pooling
Q: What is thread pooling?
A: In an internet application, you may have thousands of users, each requiring access to their own host session. Creating hundreds of threads, let alone thousands, is not practical; Windows NT can't handle that many threads. Thread pooling creates a relatively small number of threads (tens of threads), typically based on the number of processors. Controls are distributed among the threads, with multiple controls being assigned to each thread.
Building Applications
Q: Is there any advantage to registering display controls with Microsoft Transaction Server ?
A: No, display controls have no way of backing out data that has already been sent to the host. Q: Does this mean that the display controls cannot participate in a transaction?
A: No, IIS 4.0 provides transacted ASPs. In the ASP’s OnTransactionAbort function, code may be written to drive the host application to reverse the changes. The OnTransactionAbort function is called when the transaction has failed and database changes are backed out.
Q: How do the terms "multi-instance" and "multi-threaded" apply to the browser environment?
A: To be perfectly safe, each instance of the browser should only have one instance of a
RUMBA Host Pro control.
Q: How does persistence object come into play here?
A: Persistence object works by keeping the display control running even when the browser tells it to shut down. This means that there may be many display controls running even though only one is visible on the current page. Persistence creates a multi-instance situation, meaning the RUMBA Host Pro controls are not completely safe.
Q: But it seems to be working OK to use multiple instances of RUMBA Host Pro display controls in a browser?
A: For client-side web applications with only one control per page and no persistence, these controls are perfectly safe. With persistence, your risk goes up, but you can probably get away with it, these controls mostly work.
Q: Can I use RUMBA Host Pro display controls for server-side applications?
A: No. On a server-side web application you will definitely encounter multi-tasking/multi-instance issues with the RUMBA Host Pro display controls.
Old KB# 36326
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I’m very pleased to announce the immediate availability of RM/COBOL 12 WS4. (V12.08).
This is the fourth Web Sync for RM/COBOL 12 and delivers on our previous commitments for continued support for our RM/COBOL customers.
RM/COBOL 12 WS4 supports Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
You will find more information about this Web Sync at:
http://supportline.microfocus.com/Documentation/books/Relativity/v12/Supplementv1208.pdf
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Problem:
It is easy to fully path to a file or files in the SELECT statement however this doesn't allow the root directory path to be changed at runtime without rewriting the application.
Resolution:
By using the RUNPATH environment variable and the RUN-FILES-ATTR EXPANDED-PATH-SEARCH configuration option allows for a more flexible solution. For example, if you wanted to open the following files :
/home/trpos/2012/FILE.DAT
/home/trpos/2013/FILE.DAT
Instead of fully pathing to them in the SELECT statement like this :
SELECT DOSYA ASSIGN TO RANDOM "/home/trpos/2012/FILE.DAT"
SELECT DOSYB ASSIGN TO RANDOM "/home/trpos/2013/FILE.DAT"
You could assign them like this :
SELECT DOSYA ASSIGN TO RANDOM "2012/FILE.DAT"
SELECT DOSYB ASSIGN TO RANDOM "2013/FILE.DAT"
NB: Note the lack of a leading /
Then set the RUNPATH environment variable to :
/home/trpos
This instructs the runtime to start it's file search path in the /home/trpos directory. Create a configuration file (simple text file for example called "c.cfg") containing the following :
RUN-FILES-ATTR EXPANDED-PATH-SEARCH=YES
Then run using the command line :
runcobol <program> c=c.cfg
The configuration file will instruct the runtime to look in all the RUNPATH locations appending the path/filename in SELECT statement.
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