Visual COBOL Co-existing with Earlier Micro Focus Products

If you have Visual COBOL and Net Express or Studio Enterprise Edition installed on the same machine, you sometimes receive a run-time system error if the COBCONFIG environment variable is set when you run Visual COBOL applications the configuration file it refers to contains entries that are not valid for Visual COBOL.

To work around this issue, ensure that Visual COBOL is not running and then modify the configuration file by doing one of the following:

• If the invalid tunable is not needed by another application, remove it from the run-time configuration file.
• Add the following as the first line in the configuration file:

  set cobconfig_error_report=false

• Unset COBCONFIG or set it to another configuration file that does not contain the invalid tunable for the particular session you are running in.