

How to view a record in the file and map the record to a record layout that was initially defined in a COBOL copy file or other COBOL source member. How to view a record in the file using the hexadecimal dump format How to view a list of the records in the file. How to view an ASCII or EBCDIC encoded file How to start the Data File Editor from within a Micro Focus Net Express project. The following features and functions will be discussed. This document describes how to use the Micro Focus Data File Editor to view the contents of a file. NET and JVM.Net Express, Structure Files and Data File Editor Data File Editor Procedural COBOL is regular COBOL without any of the new syntax that has been added for. Procedural COBOL Compared with JVM COBOL.Much of the edit and debug functionality in Server Express is available in Visual COBOL, but some of it has a different name or slightly different behavior. Some technologies behave differently in Visual COBOL and this might affect how you upgrade existing applications. However there are alternative techniques for many of these features. Some features in earlier Micro Focus products are not available in Visual COBOL. These, however, do not affect your existing applications if you recompile them from the source code in Visual COBOL. There are some differences between the run-time systems supplied with Visual COBOL and those supplied with Server Express. You might need to change the project properties and update some of the Compiler directives and settings that you previously There are several aspects of compiling and building applications that behave differently in Visual COBOL. However, there are some differences between these development systems you should consider when you upgrade

The majority of the applications created with Net Express or Server Express will continue to work in Visual COBOL without any changes. Micro Focus is using new standard industry technologies for license management in Visual COBOL.Īpplication executables that were compiled using Net Express, Server Express, RM/COBOL or extend® (ACUCOBOL-GT) must be recompiled from the sources using Visual COBOL.

Server Express functionality for editing and debugging is available in Some technologies behave differently and require some upgrade work. Visual COBOL - you only need to recompile the applications from the source code with

This, however, will not affect your existing applications and they will continue to run under There are some differences between the run-time systems supplied with You use the command line to build your applications as you did in the previous Micro Focus products. Subsystem Support as part of the Studio Enterprise Edition bundle. You can upgrade COBOL applications that were developed inĪll references to Net Express and Server Express in this guide relate to the variants of those products that provided Mainframe
