Porting from VC for Eclipse to AIX

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 17 October 2011]

With the aid of a couple of Microfocus's finest and after a small amount of rewriting, I now have a green-screen application that will run on my PC, both in debugging mode in Eclipse and standalone. However, I need this to run on AIX. I have a VC AIX runtime installed on the target machine, but I haven't been able to find out how to actually get programs compiled and running on AIX. Could anyone tell me what I need to do on which boxes in order to get a running application?

You need to get the Visual COBOL Development Hub product for AIX.

This will install the compiler component under AIX so that you can use Visual COBOL Eclipse as your IDE and compile to native code on the AIX box.

The Eclipse IDE can be installed on either Windows or Linux and you create a remote connection to the system running AIX.

For more information please see the following:

Visual COBOL 2010 Dev Hub product

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 17 October 2011]

With the aid of a couple of Microfocus's finest and after a small amount of rewriting, I now have a green-screen application that will run on my PC, both in debugging mode in Eclipse and standalone. However, I need this to run on AIX. I have a VC AIX runtime installed on the target machine, but I haven't been able to find out how to actually get programs compiled and running on AIX. Could anyone tell me what I need to do on which boxes in order to get a running application?

We now have the VC development hub, and I have successfully used it from the Unix command line to compile and run.

However, I cannot work out how to use VC for Eclipse remote development with our current setup, and I'm wondering if it's possible at all.

Currently, on the development machine, I have copies of the live sources and copybooks in /prod/sources and /prod/copies, and copies of the sources and copybooks that I am currently working on in /devel/sources and /devel/copies. To compile on the command line, I have COBCPY set to /devel/copies:/prod/copies, and to run from the command line, I have COBPATH set to /devel/sources:/prod/sources. However, I can't work out a way of using this directory structure on remote development. If I try to create a new general folder to link to, I get " Linking is not allowed because project nature 'COBOL Remote Project Nature' does not allow it.". If I create projects for the copybook directories and link them as dependencies, the copybooks aren't found.

Is there any way I can use my current directory structure, or will I need to change everything around?