Using the Container Demonstrations

Enterprise Developer includes a number of container demonstrations that illustrate typical uses of containers with COBOL applications.

These container demonstrations include Dockerfiles and related batch/script files to simplify the process of running them, and this documentation contains descriptions of the files that comprise the container demonstrations. After running the container demonstrations and reading this documentation to help you familiarize yourself with how the demonstrations work you will have all the information you need to enable you to build and use images for use with your own COBOL applications.

For users of Enterprise Developer for Eclipse (Windows):

The container demonstrations are supplied in the file ed_build_tools_dockerfiles_8.0_windows.zip which is accessible from the same place that you accessed the Enterprise Developer installation file. Unzip ed_build_tools_dockerfiles_8.0_windows.zip into a folder of your choice to create a series of folders containing the container demonstrations.

Each container demonstration includes the following:

A readme.html file that summarizes what it does and explains how to use it.
A bld.bat file to run it. Execute bld.bat with no parameters for a summary of the parameters that you can specify. More information on the parameters you can specify is provided in Running the Container Demonstration for the Enterprise Developer Base Image and Running the CICS Container Demonstration.

For users of Enterprise Developer for Eclipse (UNIX), or Enterprise Developer UNIX Components:

The container demonstrations are supplied in the file entdev_dockerfiles_8.0_platform.tar which is accessible from the same place that you accessed theEnterprise Developer installation file. Unzip entdev_dockerfiles_8.0_platform.tar into a folder of your choice to create a series of folders containing the container demonstrations.

Each container demonstration includes the following:

A readme.html file that summarizes what it does and explains how to use it.
A bld.sh file to run it. Execute bld.sh with no parameters for a summary of the parameters that you can specify. More information on the parameters you can specify is provided in Running the Container Demonstration for the Enterprise Developer Base Image and Running the CICS Container Demonstration

See Supplied Container Demonstrations for information on the containers demonstrations that are available.