Create a Visual Studio Solution for CICS Tutorials

A service interface is a component of an Enterprise Developer project. For the CICS tutorials, you'll create one Enterprise Developer Solution to contain your CICS IMTK projects – one for each tutorial.

1. In Visual Studio, click File > New > Project.
2. In the New Project dialog box, expand Installed > COBOL.
3. Click Enterprise Server, and then click Native.
4. Select Mainframe Subsystem Application.
5. Complete the remaining fields as follows:
   • Name - IMTKTutorials
   • Location - Any location.*
   • Solution name - IMTKTutorials

   * Note the physical location you specify here as you need it to configure your enterprise server.

6. Check Create directory for solution.
7. Click OK.

   Visual Studio opens the Solution Explorer for the IMTKTutorials solution, showing the IMTKTutorials project. Because each service interface created in a tutorial uses a different enterprise server, and enterprise servers are associated at the project level, each service interface must be in its own project. Therefore, we will not use the default IMTKTutorials project but instead will create a separate project within the IMTKTutorials Solution for each tutorial.