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Unsupported Library Routines

The following ACUCOBOL-GT library routines are not (or will ever be) supported in Visual COBOL and will produce a COBRT097 Acu library routine is and will remain unimplemented error. You should remove any calls to the following routines from your source code to avoid producing the error.
Note: This list may contain customer-specific routines that are not found in the ACUCOBOL-GT product documentation.
  • C$ASYNCPOLL
  • C$ASYNCRUN
  • C$CHAIN
  • C$CHARTERR
  • C$CONFIG
  • C$EXCEPINFO
  • C$GETVARIANT
  • C$GETEVENTDATA
  • C$GETEVENTPARAM
  • C$GETERRORFILE
  • C$GETNETEVENTDATA
  • C$KEYMAP
  • C$PRODKEY
  • C$RESOURCE
  • C$SERVER-EXTENSION
  • C$SETERRORFILE
  • C$SETEVENTDATA
  • C$SETEVENTPARAM
  • C$SETVARIANT
  • C$TOJIS
  • KEISEN1
  • KEISEN2
  • KEISEN-SELECT
  • SYSID
  • W$BROWSERINFO
  • W$FORGET
  • W$GETC
  • W$GETCHAR
  • W$GETCGI
  • W$GETURL
  • W$INPUTMODE
  • W$KEYBUF
  • W$MENU
  • W$MOUSE
  • W$PALETTE
  • W$POSTURL
  • W$STATUS
  • $HP-CURRENT-DATE
  • $HP-TIME-OF-DAY

There is also another list of library routines that are not currently supported, but may be in the future. These also produce a run-time error COBRT098 The library routine is not available in Visual COBOL (routine-name) Please contact Micro Focus Customer Care for information and must be removed from your source code whilst they are not supported.

  • ASCII2HEX
  • ASCII2OCTAL
  • HEX2ASCII
  • KEISEN
  • OCTAL2ASCII
  • C$CODESET
  • C$DISCONNECT
  • C$EXTINFO
  • C$FILESYS
  • C$JAVA
  • C$KEYPROGRESS
  • C$LOCALPRINT
  • C$OPENSAVEBOX
  • C$PARSEXFD
  • C$PING
  • C$RCONVERT
  • C$RECOVER
  • C$REDIRECT
  • C$SOCKET
  • C$SYSLOG
  • R$IO
  • REG_OPEN_KEY
  • REG_CLOSE_KEY
  • REG_CREATE_KEY
  • REG_DELETE_KEY
  • REG_ENUM_KEY
  • REG_QUERY_VALUE
  • REG_SET_VALUE
  • REG_OPEN_KEY_EX
  • REG_CREATE_KEY_EX
  • REG_DELETE_VALUE
  • REG_ENUM_VALUE
  • REG_QUERY_VALUE_EX
  • REG_SET_VALUE_EX
  • S$io
  • $WINHELP
  • W$BITMAP
  • W$FLUSH
  • W$FONT
  • W$PROGRESSDIALOG
  • W$TEXTSIZE
  • WIN$PLAYSOUND
  • WIN$PRINTER

For a list of currently supported library routines, refer to ACUCOBOL-GT Library Routines.

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