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 either the COBCONFIG or 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: