Define and Verify a Post-Build Event that Binds the Application

Walks you through the process of defining a post-build event that automatically binds the application after building the project.

Define a post-build event

In the Properties window, expand Micro Focus > Build Configurations > Events.
In the Post build event command line field, type the following command:
```
DSN SYSTEM(HCODemo) @"LBLDURATION.hcodsn"
```
This command calls the DSN Bind utility, specifies the SQL database connection to use, and states the location and name of a bind script file. Eclipse executes this event immediately after building the application, automatically binding the application at that time.
Click Apply and Close. Eclipse builds the native application automatically.

From the COBOL Explorer, open and review the contents of LBLDURATION.hcodsn. This bind script file contains one BIND PLAN command that binds the LBLDURATION member into a plan named LBLDURATION.

Using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, connect to your SQL Server instance.
On the Object Explorer, expand Databases > HCO_Test > Programmability > Stored Procedures to see the stored procedures HCOSS created when you executed your packages and plan.
Open the stored procedure named PLN:LBLDURATION.LBLDURATIONconsistency-token$0, where consistency-token is the value of the generated consistency token.
In this, you see the SQL from your application code. You also see that HCOSS has converted the original DB2 DAYS expression into T-SQL syntax that recreates the same functionality in SQL Server. This is due to having set the SQL(DIALECT=MAINFRAME) directive when you compiled.