Setting up the environment

If you have installed the product to a directory other than the default one, you need to set the environment as described below.

Note: The default directory is /opt/microfocus/VisualCOBOL.

To set up your product, execute:
```
. <product-install-dir>/bin/cobsetenv
```
To verify that your product is installed, execute:
```
cob -V
```

Important: These commands set the environment only for the current shell. You need to execute them for each new shell that you start.

To avoid having to run cobsetenv for every shell, add these commands to the shell initialization files (such as /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc).

Note that cobsetenv is only compatible with POSIX-like shells, such as bash, ksh, or XPG4 sh. It is not compatible with C-shell or pre-XPG4 Bourne shell.

Configuring licensing for older products

If you use release 10.0 and previous releases on the same machine, you need to the set the environment variable MFCES_INIT_LOCATION to /opt/microfocus/licensing/bin/ces.ini in order for licensing to work for the older products. Also, see Advanced Installation Tasks > Licensing Coexistence when Upgrading to Release 10.0 in the Installation section.