Files in the Docker Demonstration for the Visual COBOL Base Image

The files contained in the Docker demonstration for the Visual COBOL base image are as follows:

bld.env Configuration file defining various environment variables that are used while building the images. The environment variables define details such as the names of installable files and strings to be used for different parts of the image names.
bld.funcs Definitions of functions used in the bld.sh script.
bld.sh Shell script to automate the process of building Visual COBOL images.

For full details on the parameters you can specify to bld.sh see Running the Docker Demonstration for the Visual COBOL Base Image.

Dockerfile Dockerfile used to build the Visual COBOL base image. For a detailed look at the commands used in this file, see Dockerfiles in the Docker Demonstration for the Visual COBOL Base Image.
palic.env Configuration file used to specify the name of the license (.mflic) file for Visual COBOL.
prodver.env Configuration file containing a setting that specifies the version of Visual COBOL that this Docker demonstration is supplied with.
README*.* Files for HTML and plain text documents containing instructions on how to build the Visual COBOL base image.
server-jre-8u162-linux-x64.tar.gz Package containing files for the Java Platform Standard Edition Runtime Environment. This is required to provide support for Java.
setup_visualcobol_devhub_for_docker_4.0_platform The installable executable file for Visual COBOL Development Hub.

There is also an associated .sum file for this file. You can ignore this file.

Note: The name of the Visual COBOL base image depends on the platform you are using:
  • On Red Hat Linux the base image is microfocus/vcdevhub:rhel7_4.0_x64.
  • On SUSE Linux the base image is microfocus/vcdevhub:sles12sp3_4.0_x64.