Micro Focus Enterprise Server 2.3 Update 1 for Windows > Data Access > Database Access > HCO for SQL Server (HCOSS) > Deploying Native Applications

Deploying Native Applications

The software components required for successful HCOSS application deployment depend on your deployment scenario. For details, see Additional Software Requirements.

Important: This topic assumes that all applications being deployed to Enterprise Server were developed and compiled using the Enterprise Developer product.

Deploy an Application Compiled Without DBRMLIB

To deploy an Enterprise Developer HCOSS application that was not compiled using the DBRMLIB directive, meaning that you did not bind the DBRM files for your application, complete the steps presented in the topic Deploying Native COBOL Applications. The steps presented there are necessary to successfully deploy your application to the deployment machine.

Development Machine

Build and test the HCOSS application with a development SQL Server machine.

Deployment Machine

Follow the steps defined in Deploying Native COBOL Applications, moving your HCOSS application as specified
Create a connection to the deployment SQL Server machine
Test the HCOSS application with the deployment SQL Server machine

Deploy an Application Compiled With DBRMLIB

To bind an Enterprise Developer HCOSS application using the DBRMLIB directive and deploy it to a deployment machine, you have two choices:

Bind the application from your development machine

Development Machine

Build and test the HCOSS application with a development SQL Server machine
Create a connection to the deployment SQL Server machine
Bind the HCOSS application to the deployment SQL Server machine using the connection you created

Deployment Machine

Follow the steps defined in Deploying Native COBOL Applications, moving your HCOSS application as specified
Create a connection to the deployment SQL Server machine
Test the HCOSS application with the deployment SQL Server machine

Bind the application from your deployment machine

Development Machine

Build and test the HCOSS application with a development SQL Server machine.

Deployment Machine

Follow the steps defined in Deploying Native COBOL Applications.
Be sure that all prerequisite software is installed on the machine. See Additional Software Requirements for details.

Copy your HCOSS application from the development machine to the appropriate directory structure on the deployment machine.

Important: You must create some or all of the required directory structure manually.

Specifically, copy database request modules (DBRMs), that is, the DBRMName.hcodbrm files, from the development machine to the equivalent directory on the deployment machine. The location of your DBRM files varies on your development machine depending on your HCOSS options, and the specified DBRMLIB directive. The location on your development machine is:

localHCOSSFiles\DBRMDataSets\DBRMLIBName

Where localHCOSSFiles represents the value of the Local HCOSS Directory HCOSS option, and DBRMLIBName represents the value of the DBRMLIB directive.

Note: If no value is provided for the DBRMLIB directive, the default value is DBRMLIB. SQL(DBRMLIB) is the equivalent of SQL(DBRMLIB=DBRMLIB).

On the deployment machine, you must put the DBRM files into a subdirectory of the default directory: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Micro Focus\Enterprise Developer\hcoss\DBRMDataSets. The subdirectory name must match the DBRMLIB name.

For example, assuming the following:

Development machine Windows user ID	`devuser`
Deployment machine Windows user ID	`exeuser`
DBRMLIB directive	`SQL(DBRMLIB=REX.PROJECT.DEMO)`
Value of Local HCOSS Directory HCOSS option on both machines	Default setting, %LOCALAPPDATA%\Micro Focus\Enterprise Developer\hcoss\DBRMDataSets

You then copy the generated DBRM files using the following directory specifications:

Development Machine	Deployment Machine
c:\Users\devuser\AppData\Local\Micro Focus\Enterprise Developer\hcoss\DBRMDataSets\REX.PROJECT.DEMO	c:\Users\exeuser\AppData\Local\Micro Focus\Enterprise Developer\hcoss\DBRMDataSets\REX.PROJECT.DEMO

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Using the Manage Connections tool, create a connection to the deployment SQL Server machine. For more information, see the Manage Connections Tool topic.
Important: Be sure that the login credentials you use grant you the permissions necessary to successfully perform the tasks outlined in both the Schema Update Execution and Bind Script Execution sections of the DSN Bind Utility topic.
Using the Manage Packages and Plans tool, bind the DBRM to your deployment SQL Server machine by creating and executing a BIND PACKAGE script command. For complete details, see the Manage Packages and Plans topic.
Test your HCOSS application on the deployment SQL Server machine.
Note: When running from the command line, if your Enterprise Server installation directory contains spaces, do not enclose the directory specification in quotes when you add it to the PATH environment variable.

Deploy an Application with Customized SQL Error Codes

Copy the mfhcocds.txt file on your development machine, located in the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Micro Focus\Enterprise Developer directory by default, to the same directory on your deployment machine.

Deploy an Application with Customized SQL Name Mappings

Copy the DialectMappings.hcomap file on your development machine, located in the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Micro Focus\Enterprise Developer\hcoss directory by default, to the same directory on your deployment machine.