What does the error "NO X11 DISPLAY" mean?

Question ID : 207
Created on 2013-07-19 at 4:02 AM
Author : Veryant Support [support@veryant.com]

Online URL : http://support.veryant.com/support/phpkb/question.php?ID=207



When you get this error:


   "No X11 DISPLAY variable was set, but this program performed an operation which requires it."
It means that isCOBOL is trying to access the AWT/SWING GUI Interface and your system doesn't have that.

If your program doesn't have a GUI interface, you can try to set this property in your run command line:


   iscrun -J-Djava.awt.headless=true ...
or

   java -Djava.awt.headless=true ...
If your cobol program includes some textual ACCEPT/DISPLAY statements, you'll need to use isCOBOL's CHARVA toolkit by adding a '-t' switch to your command line:

   iscrun -t ...
This automatically sets this configuration variable needed to activate CHARVA:
 iscobol.guifactory.class=com.iscobol.gui.client.charva.GuiFactoryImpl 



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