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This article is a tutorial to supplement the documentation that is supplied with Enterprise Server. It shows how to get started with some of the Docker demonstration files that are supplied with Enterprise Server in order to run a CICS application in a Docker container on Windows. Overview This tutorial shows how you use the Docker demonstration files supplied with Enterprise Server to create an image containing Enterprise Server and a sample CICS application, run that image in a Docker container, and connect to the container in order to run the demonstration application and view and configure the enterprise server used to run it. The tutorial assumes you are creating 64-bit images but includes the relevant information if you want to create 32-bit images. The tutorial assumes you are using Enterprise Server 5.0. If you are using Enterprise Server 4.0 the steps in the tutorial should be the same but you will need to change the names of some of the files used to reflect the differen

Introduction This cheat sheet demonstrates how to use the Consolidated Tracing Facility (CTF) viewer to view binary format trace files that were created using the CTF binfile emitter.Eclipse includes the CTF perspective, which includes the CTF Viewer File View that displays the content of the trace file, as well as the COBOL Explorer, Properties and Bookmarks views. You can also use annotation files to get more meaningful textual descriptions to certain identifiers of the trace file in File View. To use the CTF viewer, you need to create trace files in binary format and to set up your environment and CTF configuration file appropriately. Import a demo to create a COBOL project Click File > New > Project, expand Micro Focus COBOL and select COBOL Project.Give your project a name and choose where to store it, then click OK.Click File > Import, expand General, select File System and click Next.Browse to the Samples or Demo folder in your COBOL development system installation and

Introduction In this tutorial, you will create different build configurations in order to create different output types for your project. Create a build configuration Right-click on your project in COBOL Explorer and select Properties.Choose Micro Focus COBOL > Build Configurations > COBOL. Click Manage Configurations.Click the New Configuration button. You can change the name of the new build configuration by clicking the Rename selected configuration button.Click Finish. Build to .int or .gnt files Choose All Int/Gnt Files from the Target types drop-down list, and click OK.Right-click on your project in COBOL Explorer and select Properties again.Choose Micro Focus COBOL > Project Settings > COBOL.Select Compile to .gnt in order to create .gnt files. If it is not selected, .int files are created.Click Apply and build your project (by default this will happen automatically). A folder is created with the name specified in the Output Path, and contains an .int or .gnt file f

Hi,I am in the process of creating the IMS DB Data from mainframe. I did use the "DFSURGU0" utility in mainframe JCL and unloaded the DB into a flat file with variable record length.As a next step, I did DBDGEN, ZEROLOAD successfully.When I try to load the data, it is allowing me to use the "GENERIC" file option, so I have given segment name position and data position, but I am unable to load the data. I am getting the below errors:Need some help!** ERROR (809) ** Invalid variable length input file.** ** Record length greater than 32K.  #EnterpriseDeveloper

I am compiling a suite (about 300) of COBOL programs as part of an upgrade to Enterprise Developer 4.0.  One of the programs doesn't compile - the "error" is the COMP-5 usages in SQLCA, which is pulled into the program with an INCLUDE.  Many other programs also INCLUDE SQLCA - and they all are compiling without any problem.  What is going on here - and how do I find the actual error?  It's not in the SQLCA, obviously.#EnterpriseDeveloper

Problem : How can the message "unsupported Platform" be avoided on SuSe Linux 11 SP4 during product installation? Resolution : During install Visual Cobol Development Hub on SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4, the message "Unsupported platform" may be returned. This product IS supported on this platform. The installer is expecting certain text  to be found in the "/etc/issue"  file, so because it is not found, the "unsupported platform" message is generated. To get around this problem, add the following line at the end of the current /etc/issue file."Welcome to SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (x86_64) - Kernel \\r (\\l)." Rerun the product installation.   Incident# 3145246 #EnterpriseDeveloper#MFDS

Problem When testing for the optimal number of SEPs in Enterprise Server the error CASSI1703S TCA occurred. If the user tried to go beyond 100 SEPs - Error CASSI1703S TCA registration of server failed, reason = 00005 appears.   Resolution Changing the kernel Linux semaphore, as shown below, enables the ability to set the SEP number above 100. sysctl -w kernel.sem="1024 128000 400 512" This is a LINUX kernel semaphore setting that had to be increased. #EnterpriseServer#Enterprise#Server

Problem: Is it possible to do a silent installation including casperm.sh of Enterprise Developer and COBOL Server products? Resolution: The $COBDIR/bin/casperms.sh script does not have a silent or non-interactive option.   It is only designed to run with user interaction.   To setup the product silently with the casperm settings you would need to install the product and pass in the command in arguments there.      [ as root ] setup* -silent –IacceptEULA -EssysLog=Y -ESadminID=tmfavaev -CASrtDir=/var/microfocus/mfcobol/es   The other option is to create a script, example below, to run the casperm.sh script and pass in responses to the prompts.   Create script “Run_casperm.sh”   #====== Start Run_casperm.sh ========== $COBDIR/bin/casperm.sh <<EOT Y tmfavaev /var/microfocus/mfcobol/es EOT #====== End Run_casperm.sh ==========   [ as root ] Run_casperm.sh #MFDS#EnterpriseDeveloper

Problem After each daily restart of Fileshare (necessary for daily batch jobs in this particular instsance), the very first transaction performed after the restart in the webservice receives a 9/124 error. For example, looking up a customer ID could fail but all subsequent times (looking up a customer ID agina) works fine till the next restart. Resolution Since the first transaction is the issue here, one needs to make sure that the client will attempt to reconnect. The delay between each attempt will not matter. By default the delay will be 0 milliseconds. By adding the following in the configuration settings in fhredir.cfg of Fileshare: /ra 1 Will solve that 9/124 error. With this setting, the client will attempt 1 millisecond, one time immediately after the first 'failed' attempt. #EnterpriseServer#Server#Enterprise

good morning,with mainframe express I could launch 3 jobs A, B, C and they were executed one in queue to the otherMFECL /RUNEXE %PRJ% MFJCL.EXE %JCLDIR%\\A.JCL /SUBMITMFECL /RUNEXE %PRJ% MFJCL.EXE %JCLDIR%\\B.JCL /SUBMITMFECL /RUNEXE %PRJ% MFJCL.EXE %JCLDIR%\\C.JCL /SUBMITin enterprise developer i have found command cassub (already present in mfe):cassub -j %JCLLIB%\\A.JCL -R%REGION_NAME%cassub -j %JCLLIB%\\B.JCL -R%REGION_NAME%cassub -j %JCLLIB%\\C.JCL -R%REGION_NAME%in this case the jobs start almost simultaneously, isn't there a system to launch jcls in sequence so that the next one starts only if the previous one is finished? thanks#EnterpriseDeveloper

good morning,I have a license for Enterprise Developer TE Eclipse (PA) type Full 25 user (s) that I would like to install as follows:- on a server A I would like to install the license as a license server and use Enterprise Developer Build Tools only to compile from the command line- on a B server I would like to install Enterprise Developer for Visual Studio 2013 Shell(Integrated) and use the same license on server A,so I entered the IP address of server A in the Microfocus License Administration Advanced Configuration as License Serverseems to have hooked it, in fact I see it in Summary, but when I open Visual Studio I have the following message:No license for this feature is avaible.It may be because it has not been installed or it has expired. Error details:Unable to obtain the requested license:Error [18]: No license code is available for feature SolarVisualStudio2010 on host 172.30.106.210172.30.106.210 is the ip address of server Ainstead, on a B server, if I use the command lin

Hi,Is there a tool that facilitates the migration of projects from MFE to Enterprise developer for visual stdio 2013?Can I use the same catalog file?Isn't there a way to move the xdb, cics and cobol configuration automatically?I have to migrate hundreds of Mainframe Express projects to Enterprise Developer, how long will it take?thanksbye#EnterpriseDeveloper

Problem: Why do PDS members not display correctly in the Data File Editor (mfdatatools2) ? Solution: When a PDS member is selected for edit, the contents of the member are not displayed correctly. This is caused by an invalid LRECL definition of the partitioned dataset. To workaround this issue, change the LRECL of the partitioned dataset to any positive value. For PDS members which are control cards for use with JCL, change the LRECL of the partitioned dataset to 00080 and then the contents of the PDS will be displayed correctly in the Data File Editor (mfdatatools2) .   Incident#3140183 #editor#MFDS#MFDATATOOLS2#PDS#Data#Tools#File#EnterpriseDeveloper

Hi,I was following the CICS webservices microfcus tutorial, when i found a point where i found myself stuck.The issue is i cannot find the Pipeline page under my groups to create a PIPELINE. As shown in the screenshot. Please helpThanks#EnterpriseDeveloper

Problem:What version of MySQL is supported in MF products Solution: The current products will support MySQL via OpenESQL and have been tested with MySQL 5.7 (5.3 ODBC drivers only) as per our documentation, click here for Windows  and click here for UNIX Although this relates to version 4.0, our support remains the same for our earlier products. Micro Focus provides compatibility for PostgreSQL and MySQL, but does not directly contribute to or support either open source products. Any issues relating to the functionality of either DBMS should be addressed through an open source support vendor. If issues are found in the Micro Focus support provided, please raise a new incident with the Customer Care team, and the issue will be investigated. Incident#3155388 #PostGRESQL#OpenESQL#EnterpriseDeveloper#MySQL#MFDS#SupportedVersions

Problem:- Customer was getting the following error $CJOBXXX COMMAND INVALID when deleting jobs through Enterprise Developer Remote Systems - JES Explorer.   Solution:- This issue can be caused by not using the default ‘$’ character for the JES Console commands. Mainframe Access will take the received JES command string from the Enterprise Developer client, translate it to EBCDIC, and then sets the first character to the default ‘$’. The JES console command character is set by the CONCHAR parameter in xxx.PARMLIB(JES2PARM). The problem will happen if the CONCHAR is set in their JES2PARM to for example ‘CONCHAR=# ‘ Mainframe Access now supports a new configuration parameter ‘JES_CONCHAR’ for mainframe installations that do not use the default '$' character for JES console commands.   #EnterpriseDeveloper#MFDS

Problem : How can the directory used for system information in ES be controlled ? Resolution : The directory used for the system information, is controlled using the environment variable CASROOT.    The value used must be the full directory path. By default this is defined in the  cas.cfg  file, which can be found in the  $COBDIR/etc/cat  directory. This is called the Transaction System Global/Region Configuration File. The contents of this file is as follows:############################################################## Transaction System Global/Region Configuration File ################################################################# global only directives ###USESYSCON=YAUTHPGMS=CASROOT=/var/mfcobol/es### other directives ############################################################## If the value of the CASROOT variable is changed, it MUST point to a directory that already exists. Enterprise Server will create a directory with the same name as the serv

Hi,where I can find sqlcode of microsoft sql?cobol application with ESQL have SQLCODE -4001 what's mean?thank bye#EnterpriseDeveloper

Hi, Can you please provide the steps for exporting CSD files from mainframe to Enterprise Analyzer. Thanks John#EnterpriseAnalyzer#Mainframe#CSD

Problem: Code has D in column 7 for the comments, needs to add it to the list of comment characters, how does this get set up? Resolution: Go to Utilities/Options/Component Parameters - for Cobol type - enter in the "Comment Characters" the characters that are used to denote a comment in column 7. e.g.  D*@& Old KB# 5107#EnterpriseAnalyzer#SupportTip

Hi  I am wondering if there is an eclipse based plugin for the EA product. We use IBM developer for z (IDz) and it would be useful if we could provide access to EA from within eclipse. TIA  #EnterpriseAnalyzer

Hi, Development team is facing an issue while trying to run the animator (debugging tool) in R110 debug application (app.r110.kgs.debug.v10). Target server is a solaris 11 machine.   Unfortunately the animator shows an error message (please find in attachment: "KOJAK.app.for.debugging.error.message.png" (the black one)) then the window disappears (almost immediately)   The development team used the following command to start the app as you can see in attached screenshot "KOJAK.app.for.debugging.png" (the blueish one):  kgsentw@MCHUNIXV10 ~/r105 $ setupTS -devarea=r105 -appfolder=app.r105.kgs.debug.v10/ -port=8518 -ldlibpath=/export/home/kgsentw/r105/z.KOJAK.nonInternational/lib:/export/home/kgentw/r105/app.r105.kgs.debug.v10/lib:/data/freigabe/r105/lib:/data/freigabe/r105/lib/dia -path=app.r105.kgs.debug.v10/ -start   #MFCobolCLink.bj#COBOL#CobolMargins#Animator#EnterpriseAnalyzer

We're planning an upgrade.  According to our development staff "Micro Focus Enterprise Developer server will be configured manually based on development environment setting since Export and import of configuration is not supported across the micro focus versions. "Can this be true?#EnterpriseDeveloper

ISSUE: The Change Traffic Control script supplied with Enterprise Analyzer (EA) requires an executable that cannot be shipped with EA to run. Where can this module be downloaded from? HOW TO STEPS: The module in question is called diff and this is a source comparison tool that has been developed as an open source module using GnuWin. As such, it is free to download, but is not something that Micro Focus can distribute. Diff can create metrics to show differences between two source modules. These metrics are then gathered by the change traffic control script (ChangeTraffic.bj) and loaded into EA via the Enterprise View (EV) core module apm-core.jar. Here are the steps necessary to download and install diff.exe: Go to the following web address - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/diffutils The latest version of diff is currently 2.8.7.1. Go into latest folder and select the exe to download, typically diffutils-2.8.7-1.exe. Run the exe, this will install diff onto the PC. The

I am using MFED for Eclipse -  Enterprise Developer 3.0 Version: 3.0.00519.Facing issue each time when adding a new module into the existing project,the module gets Archived and the program compile option gets disabled.  The file is then removed and project refreshed and then reinserted into the project the compile option is back. This is usually happenning bwcause the .cobolproj and .cobolbuild files are not getting updated when the new file is added.Is there a way to avoid this manual intervention for the IDE to automatically detect the code updates and new modules and update the build index and Project index for  build compilation? #EnterpriseDeveloper