Running the Container Demonstration for the COBOL Server Base Image

The container demonstration to create the COBOL Server base image includes a batch file (bld.bat) to make the process of running the demonstration as easy as possible. This topic lists and describes the parameters that you can specify when running bld.bat.

Note: The product installers for the ... for docker products, such as Visual COBOL Development Hub for Docker, are supplied as a .tar file. For example devhub_dockerfiles_8.0_platform.tar for the base release, and devhub_dockerfiles_8.0_platform_patchupdate01.tar for the patch update installer. (The patch update installers provide the basic product images, but do not include the Hello World or other container examples; these are only provided with the base release.)

To obtain the bld.sh installation script, installable executable, and other files mentioned below, extract the provided .tar file into an empty directory on the container host machine. The files for the base release will be in a DevHub directory within the .tar file; the files for a patch update will be in the main directory extracted from the .tar file.

When using bld.bat to create a base image for COBOL Server you need to ensure that the relevant installation files and licenses are available in the same folder as bld.bat. These are:

The installable executable file for COBOL Server. This is cs_100.exe and is supplied in the container demonstration for the COBOL Server base image.
The appropriate license (.xml) file for COBOL Server.

The command to execute the batch file to run the container demonstration for the COBOL Server base image is as follows:

bld.bat { IacceptEULA [options] }

options enables you to specify a number of characteristics for the image, such as any odbc or java requirements, or auto-login credentials. For a full list of available options and their definitions, run ./bld.sh without specifying any other parameters.