Having activated
Visual COBOL Personal Edition, you can use it for a limited period of 365 days. After this period, you
can either register a new Personal Edition license for 365 days or
enter an authorization code in order to continue using it, either for a 30-day trial or full license of
Visual COBOL. To do this:
- Start
Visual COBOL.
If you have not installed a license for
Visual COBOL, starting the IDE for the first time after you install the product opens the
Micro Focus Visual COBOL Product Licensing dialog box. If you cancel this dialog box, you can invoke it again from
Help > Micro Focus > Product Licensing.
- Click
I want to activate the free product.
- Ensure that the email address used to register the product is in the
Email address text entry field. If you haven't registered your email address yet, click
registration page and follow the instructions on that page.
- Select one of the following options:
- Automatic
- Use this if you have Internet access.
- Click
Finish to activate your copy of
Visual COBOL Personal Edition.
- Manual
- Use this if you are not connected to the Internet.
- Click
Next and then click
Send email.
This opens your default email client and creates a new email filled in with the details to email to
Micro Focus about activating your copy of the free Personal Edition product.
- Send the email.
- If there is no mail client installed on your machine, copy the email address, the subject and the exact contents from the
Email details fields and paste them into an email to sent to
Micro Focus using a mail client of your choice. Do not modify or add to the text.
You will receive a response email with information with details about your authorization request.
- Paste the body text of the response email into the text entry field of the
Manual Activation dialog box.
- Click
Finish.
You should receive a message that the activation has been successful.
- Restart Eclipse to complete the activation process.
