Installing as an Upgrade

Installing this release as an upgrade will automatically uninstall any HotFixes of the older version of the product you have installed on your machine.

  • Before installing this release as an upgrade, ensure you create a back-up of your Enterprise Server configuration. To do this, on the Enterprise Server Administration home page, click Export and then select Export Enterprise Server configuration and Security Manager definitions. This creates a backup folder in the c:\programdata\micro focus\Enterprise Developer\MFDS. You can restore the Enterprise Server configuration after installing this release - click Import on the Enterprise Server Administration home page.
  • Visual COBOL 4.0 for Visual Studio 2017 cannot upgrade an existing installation of Visual COBOL 3.0 or earlier. You need to uninstall the existing product before you can install release 4.0
  • Visual Studio 2012 is no longer supported so it is not possible to upgrade to release 4.0 from Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2012 3.0 or earlier.