Problem:

Need instructions for changing the default repository location for the MFDS and ES Admin.

Resolution:

The difference between the IDE and command line generated EXEs is support for animation.  By default, the IDE compiles the code with the ANIM directive whereas the COBOL command does not.

In the ES Administration pages

http://machinename:86/

select Configuration / Options in the left hand panel.

Once the repository location directory is changed here, this is what happens:

Supposing that $COBDIR/etc/mfds has been changed to /shareddir/mfds (at least /shareddir must already exist, if the mfds subdirectory doesn't exist, it will be created)

- The definitions that are currently loaded in memory are saved to the new directory /shareddir/mfds overwriting any definitions that could have been there previously (a warning message will appear indicating this if any defitions are found there already).

- Any new changes to the definitions will be stored in the new directory /shareddir/mfds.

- The next time that mfds is re-started (due to shutdown or because mfds has been stopped) it will load from the new directory /shareddir/mfds.