To activate Visual COBOL Personal Edition

When you activate Visual COBOL Personal Edition, you can use it for a limited period of 365 days. After this period, you can either register a new Personal Edition license for 365 days or acquire a valid license either for a 30-day trial or full license of Visual COBOL in order to continue using the product.

To activate Personal Edition:

Start Visual COBOL.
If you have not installed a license for Visual COBOL, starting the IDE and trying to create a COBOL project opens the Micro Focus Visual COBOL Product Licensing dialog box. If you cancel this dialog box, you can invoke it again from Help > Micro Focus Product Help > Product Licensing.
Click I want to activate the free product.
Ensure that the email address used to register the product is in the Email address text entry field. If you haven't registered your email address yet, click registration page and follow the instructions on that page.
Select one of the following options:
Automatic
Use this if you have Internet access.
1. Click Activate License to activate your copy of Visual COBOL Personal Edition.
Manual
Use this if you are not connected to the Internet.
1. Click Send email.
  This opens your default email client and creates a new email filled in with the details to send to Micro Focus about activating your copy of the free Personal Edition of the product.
  
  Note: If there is no mail client installed on your machine, click next to Send email, and click Display fields. You will be presented with a template that includes the email address, the subject and the contents of an email to send to Micro Focus using a mail client of your choice. Do not modify the details.
  
  You will receive a response email with details about your authorization request.
2. Paste the contents of the response email in the designated field in the Micro Focus Visual COBOL Product Licensing dialog box.
3. Click Activate License.
  This displays a message confirming your request for authorization has been successful.
4. Click Close.