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Visual COBOL and ED on the same machine?

  • January 27, 2018
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Hello, I'm a member of the Academic Initiative.  We use two Microfocus products for instruction - Visual COBOL 2015 and Enterprise Developer 2015.  These two products I understand are not compatible so we run ED on our virtual desktops and Visual COBOL 2015 in our labs.  Is this still a problem when we move to Visual Studio 2017.  (Yes all Windows based products)

 

Lisa Landgraf

University of Wisconsin - Platteville


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    Chris Glazier
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    • January 29, 2018

    Hello, I'm a member of the Academic Initiative.  We use two Microfocus products for instruction - Visual COBOL 2015 and Enterprise Developer 2015.  These two products I understand are not compatible so we run ED on our virtual desktops and Visual COBOL 2015 in our labs.  Is this still a problem when we move to Visual Studio 2017.  (Yes all Windows based products)

     

    Lisa Landgraf

    University of Wisconsin - Platteville


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    Visual COBOL is actually a subset of Enterprise Developer which is why you cannot have them installed side-by-side on the same machine. ED is VC with the addition of the mainframe templates and tools.

    The same limitation exists in VS2017 with V3.0.

    Perhaps you could use ED to teach both classes?
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    • January 29, 2018

    Hello, I'm a member of the Academic Initiative.  We use two Microfocus products for instruction - Visual COBOL 2015 and Enterprise Developer 2015.  These two products I understand are not compatible so we run ED on our virtual desktops and Visual COBOL 2015 in our labs.  Is this still a problem when we move to Visual Studio 2017.  (Yes all Windows based products)

     

    Lisa Landgraf

    University of Wisconsin - Platteville


    #EnterpriseDeveloper
    Thanks for the response Chris

    We could. You also responded to a question I asked in the Visual COBOL forum about licenses. So if we were to use ED which I don't see as a problem, my question then is according to our academic program agreement, students could get trial versions of ED too? or only of Visual COBOL to load on their own laptops. And the second part of this question is could we get a couple of stand alone licenses for ED then for the faculty laptops so they could use it both on and off campus?
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    • January 30, 2018

    Hello, I'm a member of the Academic Initiative.  We use two Microfocus products for instruction - Visual COBOL 2015 and Enterprise Developer 2015.  These two products I understand are not compatible so we run ED on our virtual desktops and Visual COBOL 2015 in our labs.  Is this still a problem when we move to Visual Studio 2017.  (Yes all Windows based products)

     

    Lisa Landgraf

    University of Wisconsin - Platteville


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    This is something that would need to be sorted out and approved by the person in charge of the Academic Program.
    Please contact Ed Airey directly at Ed.Airey@microfocus.com.

    Thanks.


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