The container demonstration to create the
Visual COBOL base image includes a
shell script (bld.sh) 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.sh.
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.sh to create a base image for
Visual COBOL you need to ensure that the relevant installation files and licenses are available in the same folder as
bld.sh. These are:
- The installable executable file for
Micro Focus Visual COBOL Development Hub. This is
setup_visualcobol_devhub_for_docker_10.0_platform.gz and is supplied in the container demonstration for the
Micro Focus Visual COBOL Development Hub base image.
- The appropriate license (.xml) file for
Micro Focus Visual COBOL Development Hub.
- If you will be including Java support in the image, the relevant executable file to perform the installation of the JDK. You
can get this file from your chosen JDK provider.
The command to execute the shell script to run the container demonstration for the
Visual COBOL base image is as follows:
./bld.sh { 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.