Using Enterprise Server from within the IDE

Restriction: This topic applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.

Visual COBOL provides an integration of Enterprise Server with Visual Studio inside the Server Explorer window.

Server Explorer shows the following server nodes:

Micro Focus Analysis Server - shows the connection to an Enterprise Analyzer or COBOL Analyzer analysis server. See Code Analysis > Application Analysis Server for details.
Micro Focus Servers - this is the connection to an Enterprise Server Common Web Administration. Shows the available Directory Servers, and enterprise server regions.

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.
Associate servers with an Enterprise Server Application project from Server Explorer or from Solution Explorer.
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 Output window.