Our company has just upgraded from BC2 to BC3 and I'm seeing a number of problems. One of my main usages of BC is to compare cobol code on the PC with ditto on z/OS (keep in mind that we're a Swedish company). FORTUNATELY, I'd written a "dummies" document for new users of BC2 so when I started receiving problems, I referred to this document.
My first attempt was to try and compare a PC folder with one on the mainframe (MF). I'd forgotten whether I needed to specify the fully qualified "folder" name on the MF so I started by specifying the MF folder as userid.xxxx.yyyy. This was rejected (fair enough), so I changed it to 'userid.xxxx.yyyy' (note the quotes) and was able to bring up the folder contents. Next problem - in BC2, I'd specified that any files ending in CBL or COBOL (if I remember correctly) caused a prompt for the code page conversion. This would be ANSI for the PC, and 1143 for the MF - this worked fine. Now to my problems.
I started by comparing 2 files, PC on the left, MF on the right. The MF file was shown as garbage. I noticed the pulldown as shown in BC3_screen1 - trouble is, when I expanded this for the MF files, 1143 Finnish/Swedish wasn't one of the options (which it was in BC2). I changed the option to Western European but that didn't help. I thought that this was the type of change that required closing/restarting BC, so I tried that. Now the situation got worse - when I selected the same session again, I got the results in BC3_screen2 and couldn't access the MF at all. Okay, I thought - my password has possibly been saved incorrectly (even though I deliberately unticked the box to save the password). I looked in my old BC2 notes and saw the following:_
Clearing your password if it’s saved by mistake
If by some chance, your password gets saved (thereby resulting in you never being prompted for it when you open TSO as an FTP site) you can clear/remove it in the following manner.
Start BC and access some TSO PDS
Select tools, options, and the FTP firewall/proxy option on the left-hand side
Click on the Clear passwords button
Select OK
Trouble is - that option seems to have been changed/moved somewhere else.
Final "complaint". I have defined some rules for cobol code (saved in an XML file) and tried to import these rules. I received the error message "BC2 rules not importable". I'm ASSUMING there's a way to convert old rules and import them, or ...........
My first attempt was to try and compare a PC folder with one on the mainframe (MF). I'd forgotten whether I needed to specify the fully qualified "folder" name on the MF so I started by specifying the MF folder as userid.xxxx.yyyy. This was rejected (fair enough), so I changed it to 'userid.xxxx.yyyy' (note the quotes) and was able to bring up the folder contents. Next problem - in BC2, I'd specified that any files ending in CBL or COBOL (if I remember correctly) caused a prompt for the code page conversion. This would be ANSI for the PC, and 1143 for the MF - this worked fine. Now to my problems.
I started by comparing 2 files, PC on the left, MF on the right. The MF file was shown as garbage. I noticed the pulldown as shown in BC3_screen1 - trouble is, when I expanded this for the MF files, 1143 Finnish/Swedish wasn't one of the options (which it was in BC2). I changed the option to Western European but that didn't help. I thought that this was the type of change that required closing/restarting BC, so I tried that. Now the situation got worse - when I selected the same session again, I got the results in BC3_screen2 and couldn't access the MF at all. Okay, I thought - my password has possibly been saved incorrectly (even though I deliberately unticked the box to save the password). I looked in my old BC2 notes and saw the following:_
Clearing your password if it’s saved by mistake
If by some chance, your password gets saved (thereby resulting in you never being prompted for it when you open TSO as an FTP site) you can clear/remove it in the following manner.
Start BC and access some TSO PDS
Select tools, options, and the FTP firewall/proxy option on the left-hand side
Click on the Clear passwords button
Select OK
Trouble is - that option seems to have been changed/moved somewhere else.
Final "complaint". I have defined some rules for cobol code (saved in an XML file) and tried to import these rules. I received the error message "BC2 rules not importable". I'm ASSUMING there's a way to convert old rules and import them, or ...........
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