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Overview of Deploying Your Applications

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

COBOL Server is your COBOL run-time server. It is supplied as part of Visual COBOL, which is your COBOL development system. COBOL Server is also supplied separately, and provides the execution environment for applications created with any IDE variant of Visual COBOL.

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 COBOL Server with your application.
Ensure that the application you have developed has the proper COBOL Server licenses. Your end users need to install the licenses before they can run the application. This is done by using the Micro Focus License Administration Tool. The license, 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.