read the registry from Cobol

[5166narda]

Is there a way to read a registry value from a cobol program. I can do it in a VBscript with the regRead function but can not figure out how to do it in the program.

Any help?

 

[k5tm]

Compiler?

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[5166narda]

acucobol ver 6.0

 

[3gm]

I don't have access to my sample code here, but ...

You can use the same wshshell.regread function in AcuCobol, but it requires loading the ActiveX Windows Shell control.

Or, you can use the AcuCorp provided wrappers for the native registry Win32 API calls. See

http://www.acucorp.com/company/newsletter/newsletter_pdf/newsletter_1999_2.pdf

I've not used AcuCobol since 5.2, so there may be better options now.

Glenn

 

[5166narda]

thanks - we have been trying to use Req_Query_value but do not get any value returned. We are trying to read a value that is in Local_machine so it should already be opened. We can get a return code of zero back but no values.

 

[MuadDubby]

Hi

Sounds like you're using the rights APIs, all right. I've tried them all the way up to 6.2 and they look ok.

Your other option, which is what we were doing before AcuCorp provided the wrappers, is write a C/C++ DLL that does the job for you...

Also, I think you might need admin rights for the LOCAL_MACHINE branch. Without them, you might be able to open a node (or at least the wrapper API says you just did so), but may not be able to access the data.


.DaviD.

 

[5166narda]

I just had to add an open and close - it is working now.
thanks