Visual COBOL webinar: getting started with Eclipse

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 14 May 2012]

The third webinar in the Visual COBOL webinar series, Getting Started with Eclipse, is now open for registration.

When
Thursday May 24 2012
8:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST

Find out more information and register to attend

Thanks to everyone that attended. Questions and answers from this webinar posted below:

Q: We are using Server Express on an HP-UX server. We compile programs but aren't really doing any updates. I was trying to figure out if we need to upgrade to Visual COBOL?
A: Yes, absolutely.
Visual COBOL is our strategic product line for COBOL applications.
These products will enable you and other to better maintain and enhance the application in the short and long term.
Visual COBOL also opens up the option of JVM development for future modernization of the application.
New platforms and 3rd party products such as databases and app servers will be supported under Visual COBOL first of all.

Q: Can you comment on the difference between VC and ED?
A: Enterprise Developer is a family of products designed to support businesses with investments in IBM mainframes. Enterprise Developer is based on the Visual COBOL product line and provides mainframe features within Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs.

Q: My application was ported from CICS and runs via TN3270. How does the Eclipse or Visual Studio interface with CICS programs?
A: If you are a Studio Enterprise Edition user, Enterprise Developer is a great grade option as it provides industry standard development tooling for the development and maintenance of your migrated applications.
If you are also interested in Cloud deployment, the Enterprise Developer solution includes Azure deployment capabilities.

Q: Any road plan for the classic Net Express user interface?
A: Dialog System applications are supported under Visual COBOL for Visual Studio. For more information on this support including ways in which you can modernize these applications, see our online documentation here.


Q: Does the IDE support editing of IMS databases, VSAM files, and conversion of EBCDIC to ASCII data? All of this is supported in the NX IDE.
A: Visual COBOL provides support for editing COBOL data files using the same tooling you are familiar today.
Enterprise Developer provides all of these capabilities too. IMS support will be included in an imminent release.

Q: Can we have a copy of this presentation emailed to us for future reference?
A: All the webinars in the webinar series are available for download on Micro Focus webpage. Keep checking back for updates and future webinar registration pages.

Q: How to debug CICS application?
A: Enterprise Developer includes full support for debugging CICS application.

Q: Can/does the UNIX build create .GNT's?
A: Visual COBOL still supports INT and GNT formats. These can be created from the command line tooling and debugged within the IDEs.

Q: Is it licensed for each user and do we need a license for UNIX?
A: Each developer requires a license as was the case with Net Express and Server Express.