Micro Focus Mainframe Express™

IDE Technical Guide

MERANT™

Issue 2
June 1999

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Preface

This Technical Guide provides detailed technical information on various aspects of using the core features of Mainframe Express, the Micro Focus product that enables programmers to do development work on mainframe applications in a PC environment.

Audience

This Technical Guide is for COBOL programmers who are using Mainframe Express to create and maintain applications that are intended to be run on an IBM mainframe. It is assumed that you are already familiar with using COBOL on the mainframe.

Notation

The following type styles and conventions are used in this Technical Guide:

• Text that you type is shown like this:

  cat script_name | more

  The italic text denotes a variable that you type as part of the command.

• Optional text in command lines and code examples is shown in square brackets. In the following example, the expression can specify that the column_name is like the pattern_value, or is not like the pattern_value, depending on the absence or presence of the optional word NOT:

  column_name [NOT] LIKE pattern_value

• A section or paragraph that applies only to a particular model or operating system is identified by a bold italic heading immediately preceding the paragraph or section. For example:

  Windows 95
  This paragraph only applies on Windows 95 systems.