isCOBOL General

These errors mean that a java class was not found by the JVM. It can be returned at startup if the main program name has not been passed correctly in the command line (consider that Java is case-sensitive and the .class extension must be omitted) or... Read More

It’s very important to keep in mind that the isCOBOL configuration is built up by merging multiple files and settings. A configuration property is searched in the following list of places: the configuration file specified on the command line using... Read More

This error means that the JVM failed to load a native library. The library name is traced in the error message. A typical case in which this error can appear is when iscobol.file.index property is set to "ctree" or "ctree2" and isCOBOL is not able... Read More

This error means that a Java array has been referenced out of its bounds. In COBOL programs it usually refers to an OCCURS data item that it referenced outside of its occurrences. i.e. consider having 77 data-item1 PIC X(10) OCCURS 10 and performing... Read More

This error is returned when the JVM tries to use an object that is not available. In COBOL programs it usually refers to a data item. A typical case in which this error appears is when a called program tries to use a linkage item that was not passed... Read More

The CALL stmt can call isCOBOL object classes, native Java classes, and C routines (thru DLL’s, Shared object or static routines). But the CALL stmt cannot call any COBOL object from anyother COBOL compiler, which means it cannot call RMCOBOL,... Read More

To discover what property settings are being used during local execution of a program on Windows, you can set iscobol.tracelevel=1 (or 3, 7, 15, etc) and set iscobol.logfile to the path and name of a file. You will see a trace of places where the... Read More

One of Veryant's ISVs uses TestComplete from SmartBear software (http://www.automatedqa.com/products/testcomplete/) Veryant has experimented with TestComplete and has verified that it can be used successfully with COBOL applications developed... Read More

Question: When I run my program I get the following error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/iscobol/rts_n/StopRunException (wrong name:... Read More

The error message "Native call not found" means that the COBOL program has called a C language (native) function that has the same name as the native library (.dll or .so), but the function does not exist. For example, the first statement in the... Read More