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Enterprise Developer Tutorials Guide

There are a number of tutorials that guide you through creating COBOL applications of various sorts using the Visual Studio IDE. The source files for the tutorials are the samples installed in subfolders of the %PUBLIC%\Documents\Micro Focus\Enterprise Developer\Samples folder by default.

The following tutorials are available:

Mainframe Subsystem Tutorials

Tutorial Shows you how to
Getting started with Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Visual Studio 2017 Develop and maintain both simple COBOL and mainframe subsystem applications using the IDE. Uses the Bankdemo sample.
Tutorial: Assembler AACT is a sample CICS 3270 transaction that comprises several Assembler programs and a single BMS map, and uses the resource definitions in the file dfhdrdat. This tutorial walks you through the steps required to implement and test the AACT transaction.
Tutorial: CICS Create a CICS project in Visual Studio. You associate the project with Enterprise Server, deploy the CICS application to the server and debug in Visual Studio.
Tutorial: Web-Enabled CICS Acting as a Web Server Create a Web-enabled version of a CICS project in Visual Studio.
Tutorial: Web-Enabled CICS Acting as a Web Client Create a CICS Web client project in Visual Studio.
Tutorial: JCL Create a JCL project in Visual Studio. You associate the project with Enterprise Server, deploy the JCL file to the server and debug in Visual Studio.
Tutorial: DSNREXX Execute DB2 queries from within a DSNREXX procedure.
Tutorial: IMS Create an IMS project in Visual Studio. You associate the project with Enterprise Server, deploy the IMS files to the server and debug in Visual Studio.
Tutorials: Interface Mapping Toolkit - Mainframe Three tutorials that walk you through the process of defining service interfaces in Visual Studio using the Interface Mapping Toolkit feature, deploying them to enterprise server instances running on Enterprise Server, and generating and running clients to access them.
Tutorial: Compiling, Linking and Debugging a CICS-based Open PL/I Application Compile, link and debug a CICS-based Open PL/I application using the Open PL/I CICS preprocessor.
Tutorial: Developing an Open PL/I Application Using Visual Studio Develop an Open PL/I application using the Visual Studio IDE.
Tutorial: Accessing IBM WebSphere MQ features using PL/I programs Use IBM WebSphere MQ software features with PL/I.

Tutorials on Native COBOL

Tutorial Shows you how to
Tutorial: Creating a Native COBOL Application Create a native COBOL application and debug using various debugging features.
Tutorial: Debugging COBOL Applications Remotely Edit and compile a native COBOL application locally. Copy the application files to a remote Windows machine, prepare for debugging and debug the application remotely.
Tutorial: Running Unit Tests in the IDE Create a unit test project, then within it create a test case that directly links to one of the sample applications supplied with Enterprise Developer. This enables you to directly test your application source code.
Tutorial: Interface Mapping Toolkit Define a Java/EJB service interface to access a COBOL application, deploy it to Enterprise Server, generate and run a client to access the application.
Tutorial: Data File Tools View a variable length sequential file formatted and unformatted, and then create and edit an indexed file.
Tutorial: Classic Data File Tools Convert a data file to a variable length indexed sequential file and view in various formats using Data File Editor.

Tutorials on Managed COBOL

Tutorial Shows you how to
Tutorial: Developing .NET COBOL Create a simple Windows application in .NET COBOL. You create a Windows form that says "Hello World".
Tutorial: Creating Windows Forms in COBOL Create a Windows form that interacts with an existing COBOL program.
Tutorial: Creating Web Forms in COBOL Create a Web page that interacts with an existing COBOL program.
Tutorial: Developing Web Application Projects Create a Web Application Project that interacts with an existing COBOL program.
Tutorial: Creating and Accessing WCF COBOL Services Create a WCF Service in COBOL and access it from a client application.

Note: To complete this tutorial, you need to use a more advanced edition of Visual Studio such as Professional, Enterprise or Community Edition.

Tutorial: Publishing Hello COBOL World to the Cloud Create a COBOL cloud service and then deploy and run it under Windows Azure.
Tutorials: OpenESQL Assistant Create a COBOL program using OpenESQL Assistant to generate an SQL query.
Tutorials: SQL Server COBOL Stored Procedures Create a SQL CLR stored procedure for OpenESQL
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