Restriction: This topic applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.
Visual COBOL provides an integration of
Enterprise Server with
Eclipse inside the Server Explorer
view.
Server Explorer displays the following hierarchical structure:
- ESCWA node: the top level node is a connection to an ESCWA. If this ESCWA is secured, you need to enter sign-on credentials to
view its contents. You can configure connections to more than one ESCWA.
- Micro Focus directory server node: when you expand the ESCWA node, the directory server connections configured in ESCWA are displayed. If a directory
server is secured, you need to enter sign-on credentials to view its contents.
- Enterprise server node: when you expand a directory server connections node, the individual enterprise server nodes are displayed, from which
you can perform a number of operations (see list below), or expand the node to view the server's local catalog.
You can use the IDE to:
- Connect to a local or a remote
Enterprise Server Common Web Administration and to local and remote Directory Servers.
- Open the ESCWA browser page.
- Create enterprise servers directly from within the IDE -
Visual COBOL provides pre-configured server templates as well as temporary servers if you need to quickly create a server and deploy one
or more projects to it.
- Export server definitions in XML format or as ZIP archives.
- Import servers using their definition files.
- Start and stop servers.
- View the server logs about creating, starting or stopping a server and, for local servers, view the
Enterprise Server console log. The information from the log is shown in the
Console view.