Includes tutorials for basic IMS support features, and for using the IMS Segment Layout Editor and IMS Database Editor data
tools.
Assumptions
These tutorials are written from the perspective that all of the following is true. Specific instructions for setting up your
environment to adhere to these assumptions is found in the
Before you begin these tutorials section that follows:
- Windows
File Explorer is set to show file names and extensions.
- You are running the latest version of
Micro Focus
Enterprise Developer, which has been installed on your local machine using default installation settings, including the Rumba+ Desktop option.
- You are using the embedded Rumba Mainframe Display when instructed to run an application or transaction in TN3270 mode. If
you choose to use an alternative emulator, adjust the instructions to accommodate your software.
- Enterprise Developer is started on your local machine.
- Your parent project directory is
c:\tutorials\IMS. If you choose to use an alternative parent project directory, adjust the instructions accordingly.
- You have addressed all of the items in the
Before you begin these tutorials section below.
Before you begin these tutorials
Before beginning, be sure you have addressed each of the following items:
- Set Windows File Explorer options
- These tutorials assume that your Windows File Explorer options are set to use the Details layout, and to show file name extensions.
See your Windows documentation for more information.
- Create a parent project directory
- Create a directory in which to store the project files imported or created while completing this tutorial, which cites a parent
project directory of
c:\tutorials\IMS.
- Start
Visual Studio
- If you need instructions to get
Visual Studio started on your local machine, see
To start
Visual Studio.
- Set Rumba+ TN3270 options
-
- In
Visual Studio, click
Tools > Options; then expand
Micro Focus Tools and click
TN3270 Display.
- In the right frame, ensure that
Rumba (Embedded) is selected, and that
Connect automatically is checked.
- Close the
Options page.
Sequence
These tutorials build on one another; therefore progress through them in the order presented here. The bottom of each topic
provides
Next topic and
Previous topic navigational links to help you proceed in the proper sequence: