Integrating Preprocessors into Enterprise Developer

This document walks you through the process of integrating additional preprocessors with Micro Focus Enterprise Developer. It is intended for third-party vendors who want to extend Enterprise Developer with their own tooling and for administrators who are implementing the integration with the additional preprocessors.
Note: Additional preprocessors integrated with Enterprise Developer are supported only in native COBOL applications.

Enterprise Developer is a contemporary development suite for Microsoft Visual Studio that enables mainframe developers to maintain, develop and modernize mainframe applications environments regardless of whether they are to be deployed back on the mainframe or onto an alternative platform.

Enterprise Developer is the smart and simple way to modernize, develop and maintain mainframe applications. It offers advanced capabilities editing, debugging, compiling, and integrated testing.

Some of the Enterprise Developer functionality can be extended with third-party tooling for which several extension points exist. For example, Enterprise Developer can be extended with additional code generation tools such as preprocessors and precompilers.

Though often the two terms are used interchangeably, there is a slight difference between the two:

This guide uses the term preprocessors but the instructions equally apply when you are integrating precompilers.

Note:
  • Currently, Micro Focus supports the integration of additional preprocessors and precompilers with Enterprise Developer. To integrate other tools with Enterprise Developer you need to create Visual Studio extensions.
  • If you need assistance with technical issues regarding the integration of additional preprocessors, contact Micro Focus SupportLine.