Overview of Deploying Native COBOL Applications

Note: The following applies to native COBOL only.

Native applications developed using a COBOL development system require a COBOL run-time server to provide the necessary run-time system and support.

Server Enterprise Edition is your COBOL run-time server. It is supplied as part of Studio Enterprise Edition, which is your COBOL development system. Server Enterprise Edition is also supplied separately.

End users need to install COBOL run-time licenses before they can run applications that use the COBOL run-time system.

You need to:

Ship Server Enterprise Edition with your application, if it is a modular application. We recommend that you ship the whole of Server Enterprise Edition to avoid compatibility issues and other problems.
Ensure that the application you have developed has the proper Server Enterprise Edition licenses. Your end users need to install the licenses before they can run the application. This is done by using the Micro Focus Licensing Administration Tool. The license Authorization Code, required to license the application, is either supplied when you ship the COBOL run-time server with the application or by end-user request from Micro Focus.

Note: This product is available in two variants which you can install and use with the same license - Server Enterprise Edition which is the deployment environment for COBOL applications created with Studio Enterprise Edition for Visual Studio 2010 or Studio Enterprise Edition for Eclipse, and Server Enterprise Edition 2012 which targets applications created with Studio Enterprise Edition for Visual Studio 2012.

Studio Enterprise Edition for Visual Studio 2010 and Studio Enterprise Edition for Visual Studio 2012 each target a different version of the COBOL run-time system - Server Enterprise Edition and COBOL Server 2012, respectively.

Ensure that after you've edited the project in the preferred version of Visual Studio, you compile your source code in that version of Studio Enterprise Edition which targets the version of the COBOL run-time in which you want your applications to run.

For example, if you build your application using Studio Enterprise Edition for Visual Studio 2010 you cannot deploy the target files to COBOL Server 2012; you must use Server Enterprise Edition.