Tutorials: Interface Mapping Toolkit

Prerequisites

Before beginning this set of tutorials or any single tutorial within the set, be sure you have addressed each of the following prerequisites. Any additional prerequisites that apply to a single tutorial are addressed in the introductory topic for that tutorial:

Start Enterprise Developer

Each of these tutorials assume that Visual COBOL is started before you begin. If you need instructions to get it started, see To start Visual COBOL.

Open the appropriate Perspective and View in the Eclipse IDE

In addition, the COBOL Explorer view should be open in Eclipse.

Set Eclipse to build automatically

By default, Eclipse is configured to build a project automatically each time a change is made. These tutorials assume that Build Automatically is turned on. To ensure that this is the case:

1. From the Eclipse Main Menu, click Project.
2. Do one of the following:
   • If the Build Automatically menu option has a check mark to its left, it is already turned on. No further action is required.
   • If the Build Automatically menu option does not have a check mark to its left, click the option to turn it on.

Set Interface Mapper preferences

Before you begin the tutorials, you need to set the properties for the Interface Mapper to show both the Reusable Fields and COBOL Assignments panes. You use one or both of these panes while working through the tutorials.

1. From the Main Menu in Eclipse, click Window > Preferences.
2. Expand Micro Focus > Service Interfaces; then click Interface Mapper.
3. Check both Show Reusable Fields pane and Show COBOL Assignments pane; then click Apply and Close.
   Note: If a Preference Synchronization dialog box appears, click No - Preferences will be saved locally.; then click Apply and Close.

Be familiar with service interface concepts

If you are not familiar with the concept and implementation of a service interface, take some time to review the introductory information and other relevant topics for the IMTK before beginning the tutorial.

Sequence

You may do the IMTK tutorials in any order. They are not interdependent.