Enterprise Developer provides a number of enterprise server templates, available within the IDE, to enable you to quickly create an enterprise server and associate it with your projects.
The different types of enterprise server templates are available in the
%Program Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL SOA\1.0\Etc\ServerTemplates folder, by default. The templates supplied in this folder are the basis for enterprise servers, with the appropriate Mainframe Subsystem Support and CICS, Job Entry Subsystem, or IMS support enabled. For applications that need an enterprise server to run but do not use Mainframe Subsystem Support you need to use the
ESTemplate.xml template. You can create your own templates using the
mfds command and the following syntax:
mfds -x [repository type] [repository address] [server name] <options> <user id> <password>
Refer to the topic
mfds for more details.
Each enterprise server created using one of the templates contains a number of environment variables. When the server is started from the IDE, the environment variables are set to the appropriate project output locations. Using such variables enables you to associate the server with more than one project at the same time, or change associated projects without requiring changes to the server.
The variables enable the enterprise server to locate project output files based on the Output settings for the currently associated project(s); therefore, no changes are required when the enterprise server is associated with another project. Also, if you change the configuration within the currently associated project (for example, from Debug to Release), the new location for the project output is used, without any changes necessary. You can also append project-specific values to theses variables, separating each value with a semi-colon.
The variables are:
| IDE_LOADLIB
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The location for the Assembler, COBOL and PL/I application files
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| IDE_MODPATH
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The location for MFS and BMS
.mod files
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| IDE_IMSGENPATH
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The location for IMS gen output
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| IDE_IMSDATA
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The location for IMS databases
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| IDE_IMSCONFIG
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The location of IMS config output
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Note: There is currently no template for a PL/I-configured enterprise server.
