Installing Micro Focus Visual COBOL Development Hub

Micro Focus offers two types of installers on UNIX and Linux - a proprietary Micro Focus installer for installing on UNIX and Linux and a standard RPM (RPM Package Manager) installer for installing on Linux.

Before starting the installation, see Software Requirements.

These are the steps to install this product:

Give execute permissions to the setup file:

chmod +x setup_visualcobol_devhub_10.0_platform

Run the installer with superuser permissions:
If you don't run this as superuser you will be prompted to enter the superuser password during the installation.

Note: On Ubuntu, the prompt for superuser password is not available. On this platform you must either log in as root or use the sudo command to get root permissions before you run the installer.

The COBOL environment is installed by default into /opt/microfocus/VisualCOBOL, (COBDIR).

Enterprise Server System Administrator Process

During the installation process, the installer configures the product's Enterprise Server System Administrator Process User ID. The Process User ID will be the owner of all Enterprise Server processes except the one for the Micro Focus Directory Server (MFDS). The Directory Server process (Enterprise Server Administration) runs as root as this allows it to access the system files and ports.

All Enterprise Server processes you start from Enterprise Server Administration run under the Process User ID which can affects the file access and creation.

You must supply the user ID at the command line - specify -EsadminID=[ ID ] as part of your command.

By default, the installer uses the login id of the user that runs the installer for the Process User ID. To change the user id after you complete the installation, execute $COBDIR/bin/casperm.sh and follow the onscreen instructions.

AutoPass Licensing considerations

The installation of this product could affect the AutoPass licensed components running on your machine. During installation, the licensing shuts down to allow files to be updated. To ensure the processes running on your machine are not affected, you need to use the -skipautopass option, which skips the installation of AutoPass:
```
./setup file -skipautopass
```
To protect the AutoPass installation from accidental updating, you can create an empty file named SKIP_AUTOPASS_INSTALL in /opt/microfocus/licensing as follows:
```
touch /opt/microfocus/licensing/SKIP_AUTOPASS_INSTALL
```
While the file is present, the AutoPass installer does not make changes to the installation or shutdown the running license daemons. If licensing needs to be updated later, you can rerun the MFLicenseServerInstall.sh from within the $COBDIR/licensing folder with the force command line option:
```
cd $COBDIR/licensing
./MFLicenseServerInstall.sh force
```