Set Up the AACT Project

Create the AACT project

1. In Visual Studio, click File > New > Project.
2. In the Create a new project dialog box, select COBOL from the Language drop-down list.
3. On the Platforms drop-down list, select Windows.
4. On the Project Type drop-down list, select Enterprise Server.
5. On the list of filtered templates, select Mainframe Subsystem Application, and then click Next.
6. Complete the fields as follows:

   Field	Value
   Project name	AACT
   Location	c:\tutorials\ASM

7. Check Place solution and project in the same directory.
8. Click Create.

   Visual Studio creates the project in the c:\tutorials\ASM\AACT directory, and opens the Solution Explorer showing the AACT solution and project.

Import the AACT demonstration files

In this step, you import the files from the AACT demonstration transaction into your project, and copy the resource definition file to the project.

1. In the Visual Studio Solution Explorer, right-click the AACT project, and select Add > Existing Item from the context menu.
2. Browse to the AACT sample files, located in the %PUBLIC%\Documents\Micro Focus\Enterprise Developer\Samples\Mainframe\Assembler\Classic\AACT directory.
3. On the Add Existing Item dialog box, click the drop-down list associated with the File Name field, and select All Files (*.*).
4. Select all of the following files, and then click Add to add them to the project:
   • AACTREC.cpy
   • AACTSET.bms
   • AACTSET.cpy
   • aactset.mac
   • aactrec.mac
   • asmacct0.mlc
   • asmacct1.mlc
   • asmacct2.mlc
   • asmacct3.mlc
   • asmacct4.mlc
   • asmacctm.mlc

Install the dfhdrdat resource definition file

1. At a command prompt or using Windows File Explorer, create a subdirectory under c:\tutorial\ASM\AACT named SYSTEM.
2. Copy the dfhdrdat file from the %PUBLIC%\Documents\Micro Focus\Enterprise Developer\Samples\Mainframe\Assembler\Classic\AACT\SYSTEM directory to the c:\tutorials\ASM\AACT\SYSTEM subdirectory that you just created. This is the file that contains the resource definitions you need to create an enterprise server to run the AACT transaction.

Configure and build the AACT project

1. Double-click the Properties folder AACT project, then click the COBOL tab in the properties.
2. Enter .\loadlib in the Output path field. This will be the location of the build artefacts.
3. Click File > Save All.
4. Right-click the AACT project name in Solution Explorer; then select Build.

   You can watch the progress of this process in the Output window.

5. When the build is complete, save the project.