Visual Studio Managed Server Explorer

The Visual Studio Server Explorer has been extended to offer simple management for regions associated with a given database instance.

To use the Server Explorer to interact with a managed region .

• Open the Managed Explorer Pane
• Right click on the Micro Focus Managed Servers node, a context menu will appear
  
  
  
  
• Click on ES.NET configuration
  
  
  
  
• Enter the host address for the region
• Enter the Database instance the region is configured to use
• If you are using a non standard listener configuration, enter the details.
• Press OK and then refresh the view.
  • Regions available will be displayed. Only regions that have registered with the database will be displayed
    
    
    
    
  • If an expected region is not present, go to the administration tool and start the region there . Once it has been started this way once, there should be no need to do so again.
• Right clicking on the region of interest will present a list of options
  • Start
    • Start the selected region
  • Stop
    • Stop the selected region
  • Restart
    • Stop then start the selected region
  • Associate with project
    • Select the project to be associated with the selected region for debug purposes.
  • Show the console log
    • Shows the console log for the selected region
  • Mainframe TN3270 Display
    • Invokes the embedded Rumba TN3270 terminal emulator and connects to the TN3270 port configured in the associated project