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Welcome to Customer Care In Focus, the regular online round-up of news & technical tips from Micro Focus.

In this edition, learn how the display of the “1058” message can be avoided when using the XDB “Blue Screen” Server in Mainframe Express 3.1 and find out about reading COBOL flat files from non-COBOL languages. There's also news on an automatic update feature for AcuConnect Thin Client and much much more...

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Hundreds of users have installed Net Express V5.1 and Server Express V5.1
Since the announcement last month of availability of the 5.1 product line including updates to the Net Express and Server Express development tools, alongside associated updates to the Micro Focus Studio and Server product ranges hundreds of users have requested, received and started using these new versions.
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Suppression of the “1058” message when using the XDB “Blue Screen” Server
How can the display of the “1058” message be avoided when using the XDB “Blue Screen” Server in Mainframe Express 3.1?
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Automatic Update Feature for AcuConnect Thin Client
In version 7.2.0 and above the process of upgrading thin client “acuthin.exe” and its DLL’s has been automated. All of the future upgrades will be handled automatically by the thin client with the installation process driven by acuthin. We have made this very simple with no client setup and minimal server setup.
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Running Acu-COBOL objects with a manifest file
In the past, users have used a manifest file to get the XP "look and feel" for an application's GUI run on a Windows XP machine. Here’s how to do this in version 8.0.
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Reading COBOL flat files from non-COBOL languages
How can Microsoft Visual Basic or any other non-Cobol language read a Micro Focus flat file (i.e. Line or Record Sequential) that contains signed numeric fields?
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