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Tutorials on COBOL and PL/I in the Visual Studio IDE

There are a number of tutorials that guide you through creating COBOL applications of various sorts using the Visual Studio IDE. Some of them use the demonstration programs supplied with this product. The source files of the demonstrations are installed in subfolders under %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Micro Focus\Studio Enterprise Edition x.x\Examples\Visual Studio Integration by default.

The following tutorials are available:

Mainframe Subsystem Tutorials

Tutorial	Shows you how to
Tutorial: Assembler	AACT is a sample CICS 3270 transaction that comprises several Assembler programs and a single BMS map, and uses the resource definitions in the file dfhdrdat. This tutorial walks you through the steps required to implement and test the AACT transaction.
Tutorial: CICS	Create a CICS project in Visual Studio. You associate the project with Enterprise Server, deploy the CICS application to the server and debug in Visual Studio.
Tutorial: Web-Enabled CICS Acting as a Web Server	Create a Web-enabled version of a CICS project in Visual Studio.
Tutorial: Web-Enabled CICS Acting as a Web Client	Create a CICS Web client project in Visual Studio.
Tutorial: Extending CICS Applications to Use Database Connector for Microsoft SQL Server	Extend an existing CICS application to use Micro Focus’s Database Connectors™ for Microsoft® SQL Server. This enables your application to store and access information in a Microsoft SQL Server relational database management system (RDBMS).
Tutorial: JCL	Create a JCL project in Visual Studio. You associate the project with Enterprise Server, deploy the JCL file to the server and debug in Visual Studio.
Tutorial: IMS	Create an IMS project in Visual Studio. You associate the project with Enterprise Server, deploy the IMS files to the server and debug in Visual Studio.
Tutorials: Service Interfaces Using the IMTK	Three tutorials that walk you through the process of defining service interfaces in Visual Studio using the Interface Mapping Toolkit feature, deploying them to enterprise server instances running on Enterprise Server, and generating and running clients to access them.
Tutorial: Compiling, Linking and Debugging a CICS-based Open PL/I Application	Compile, link and debug a CICS-based Open PL/I application using the Open PL/I CICS preprocessor.
Tutorial: Compiling, Linking and Debugging Open PL/I Programs Running Under ES/JCL	Compile, link and debug an Open PL/I application running under the control of JCL in Enterprise Server.
Tutorial: Developing an Open PL/I Application Using Visual Studio	Develop an Open PL/I application using the Visual Studio IDE.
Tutorial: Using Java CodeWatch	Use Java CodeWatch as an alternative to the standard debugger.

Tutorials on Native COBOL

Tutorial	Shows you how to
Tutorial: Developing a Simple COBOL Application	Create a native COBOL application, using existing supplied source COBOL code.
Tutorial: Debugging Web Services	Use Visual Studio to debug COBOL Web services deployed under Enterprise Server.

Tutorials on Managed COBOL

Tutorial	Shows you how to
Tutorial: Developing .NET Managed COBOL	Create a simple Windows application in .NET managed COBOL. You create a Windows form that says "Hello World".
Tutorial: Creating Windows Forms in COBOL	Create a Windows form that interacts with an existing COBOL program.
Tutorial: Creating Web Forms in COBOL	Create a Web page that interacts with an existing COBOL program.
Tutorial: Creating and Accessing WCF COBOL Services	Create a WCF Service in COBOL and access it from a client application