Vutil32 / vutil

[Ian Harper]

Is there a way of calling vutil32 or vutil from within a cobol
program with out using a call to SYSTEM as the output cant
be displayed on thin client or distributed computing as the datafiles usually lie on a unix server, I would like to do
automatic rebuilds on corrpupted files and to remove deleted
records occasionally

[sgough]

Dear Ian.

Currently, there is no way to call vutil, or another utility that can rebuild a Vision file from within a COBOL program without making a CALL to SYSTEM/C$SYSTEM/C$RUN.

There is an Enhancement Request to be able to do this, so this could be possible in the future, so please do not hesitate to contact your local Acucorp Technical Support Department to add your information to the current request.

Thanks
Shaun Gough
Senior Customer Solutions Analyst.
Acucorp Inc.

[MerlinM]

have you considered setting up a runtime to run locally on the server to run a program?

Suppose you wanted to rebuild files nightly you could do that on a server managed process without input from the user. If user input was required, a sneaky back door would by to use AcuCorp's socket libs to make a rudimentry server.


Merlin