Hi Ignacio, You should go to the MF web site. At their documentation web page, in their bookshelf for Server Express there is a Multi-Threaded Programming manual that discusses how to create COBOL multi-threaded applications. You don't need a support contract with MF in order to get to the manuals at their site. Here's the one for Server Express 2.2. I think all the other bookshelves will have the same manuals. http://supportline.microfocus.com/documentation/books/sx22sp1/mtpubb.htm Good luck! ... View more

Object COBOL is not 64-bit capable. It will only compile into a 32-bit application. The error message is a SIGBUS, which along with SIGSEGV, is a "catch-all" type of error. Usually an "Attempt to access item beyond bounds of memory" indicate that COBOL has an invalid address for a variable or a subroutine. The "pays110r" indicates the subroutine the problem occurred in. How and when the address became invalid is the challenge. It could be due to a corrupted stack problem from a bad subroutine call or something else of that nature. You could try adding a compile directive for bounds checking to see if that helps. It could be due to corrupted code. Have you checked and/or recompiled any shared libs you are using? Also, your version of the compiler is really old and B.13.50 was the latest version of that discontinued COBOL product. The MF COBOL product is no longer distributed or supported by the HP Response Center and you may need to talk to Micro Focus if you cannot figure out the problem on your own. ... View more

I checked the aC++ pragma directives list at docs.hp.com: http://docs.hp.com/en/1559/pragmas.htm and there doesn't seem to be anything in there that will do what you want. I checked the submitted defects/enhancements lists for the aC++ product and didn't see that anyone had submitted a request for a new pragma of this type. If you strongly want this, I would suggest opening a call at the Response Center and requesting this pragma. ... View more

The usual root cause of a segmentation fault is that the program tried to access an unreachable virtual address. It is possible or likely that you had some type of move statement that resulted in corruption of the data stack and when the program later tried to use a virtual address that had been stored in the corrupted area, the value in that location was corrupted and pointed to an invalid "address" thus caused your program to abort. ... View more

Are you sure that the write is failing? You seem to be checking for a return write value not equal to the size of the max buffer size: if (write(err_fd, in_mess, mess_sz) != mess_sz) and could it be returning a value greater than -1 but less than mess_sz, like mess_sz -1? Can you change the test to be != -1 and then print errno? I think that the value of errno is undefined unless the write returns a -1 to signify failure. If the write is successful, you shouldn't be checking errno..... ... View more

Hi! If you look at the installation manual for Oracle, it will tell you that you must installed a purchasable compiler, either Ansi C, Ansi C++, COBOL or FORTRAN 90, so the bundled C compiler is not going to have all the "bells and whistles" required. ... View more

If the error you are complaining about is the "Make: Must be a separator on rules..." you need to check the makefile as it looks like you have a syntax error. It looks like you may be missing a "tab" character in the makefile. What is on line 995 of the make file? ... View more

Hi! If you create a small test C program like this called hello.c: #include int main() { printf("hello world\n");} and then try to compile it with the following compile options: gcc +Ofastaccess +DS2.0 +DA1.1 hello.c do you get the same error? My suspicion is that these errors are occurring because the gcc compiler doesn't recognize these compiler options, where the cc (purchasable Ansi C compiler)and aCC (purchasable Ansi C++ compiler) would recognize both of those options. But that is just a guess. I don't have a gcc compiler installed. ... View more

The Object COBOL product does require that COBDIR, SHLIB_PATH and PATH be set and as long as they all point to the correct directories within the same product version, that should work fine. The version that HP provided did have a copy_release script that would allow multiple versions to be installed on one machine. The potential problem I see is that Oracle 9i seems to require Server Express, not Object COBOL as the (default?) libraries, etc seem to be of type ELF-64, which is an executable type that Object COBOL (all versions of 4.1 cobol) is not equipped to deal with. The current version of Server Express is 2.2.SP1 and is capable of creating ELF-64 objects. Were you able to get PA-RISC 1.1 or 2.0 executables/objects/libraries for Oracle 9i from Oracle? ... View more

Hi! I must confess, I know nothing about ImageMagick, but I did find a jpeglib.h and a libjpeg.sl listed at the HP edu shareware site under the jpeg-6b package contents for hpux 11.00: http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/jpeg-6b/ Hope that helps! ... View more

You really should check out www.hp.com/go/c++ and go to the "latest versions and patches" link for the list of all the required patches for the aC++ runtime environment. Your version of aC++ may require more than just the runtime libs and the list of required patches for the product does mention which ones are required for the compiler product and which ones are required by the runtime. ... View more

Have you checked to make sure that you have the purchased compiler C/Ansi C? If you do "ll /usr/bin/cc" does that point to /opt/ansic/bin/cc? ... View more

I would guess that one of the ndd settings may be affecting your program's connect. I don't know of a way to get connect to time out like you can a select(). It sounds like something in your network protocol is set to timeout after 75 seconds (and it could be two or more parms, such as a "retransmission interval" multiplied by a "number of retransmission attempts" before giving up). You may want to use ndd -get to see your settings and may want to very cautiously modified a few. You may want to call the HP RC for some advice on ndd as setting your timeout to 5 is going to affect more than just your program. ... View more

Are you animating a .int or .gnt? The newer features with the non .int file formats may have some kind of bug. If you aren't using a .int, can you try animating with that? What version of Server Express are you on? The latest version is 2.2.SP1 (Service Pack 1) with fixpack 11 installed. Any version past version 2.2 ("base", not SP1) can only be obtained by opening a call at the Response Center at this time. I don't know of any "class" problems with the animator that would cause it to hang. Does it hang with 64-bit applications? Does it hang when you animator any cobol programs or just certain ones? What kind of subroutine are you talking about - non-cobol or system functions or what? ... View more

That particular version (B.13.40)was available as of March 2000 and was superceded by B.13.45 in September of 2001. The last 2 digits (B.13.40.01 vs B.13.40.02) is inconsequential. The real version number of the product is B.13.40 and the "build date" does not make any difference to the product features or functions. You could copy the /opt/cobol directory over, but that would be essentially illegal since this is a purchasable product and should only be installed on systems that have paid for the product and it would be supported by the RC for use on that machine only if it is officially installed from the application cds..... However, that version is pretty much best effort support since it is so old and the B.13.50 version is now the current version of Object COBOL. ... View more

That thread talks about EXEC_MAGIC which will give you up to 1.9~ gigabytes. Have you looked into SHMEM_MAGIC which can give you up to 2.75~ gigabytes heap? If you have an EXEC_MAGIC executable, you can then use chatr to modify it into a SHMEM_MAGIC executable. Of course, you can always go to 64-bit applications which would expand that limit quite a bit (as you can see from the maximum value for maxdsiz_64bit (4,396,972,769,279). ... View more

The product number for Server Express is at the public web site. If you go to www.hp.com/go/cobol and click on "Server Express", then click on the "how to order" link, it will show you the product numbers for Server Express (the development package) and Application Server (the runtime package). ... View more

Does the error still happen if you do the following: $ export COBDIR=/opt/lib/cobol $ export SHLIB_PATH=/opt/lib/cobol/lib $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lib/cobol/lib $ export PATH=/opt/lib/cobol/bin:/opt/bin/cobol:$PATH $ export COBMODE=64 $ cob -x temp.cbl ... View more

The patches required by the java runtime are to prevent problems with the underlying native methods that java employs and are documented at the java web site as a "patch info" link within the "download" page. As far as that file goes, have you tried to find it inside of the java runtime? It should be somewhere in the /opt/java. On my 10.20 machine it is /opt/java/lib/PA_RISC/green_threads/libjava.sl. Does it in fact exist on your machine? What is JAVAHOME equal to? Is it set or set incorrectly? Can you play around with JAVAHOME to see if that will allow the JVM to find the library. Is /opt/java/bin in your PATH? ... View more

Hi Mike, You don't have to do that in awk, you can do the same thing in your C program. printf("%20s%7d\n", mystring, myint); will put the string right justified starting at the 20th column and the integer at right justified at the 17th column. ... View more