To develop applications on a remote host, you need to configure a connection to it. Once created and configured, a connection
can be used for more than one remote project in a particular workspace.
Restriction: You must have
Visual COBOL Development Hub installed on the remote machine.
You create and manage connections from the Remote Systems Explorer perspective. You can then select the existing connection
when creating a remote project. Alternatively, you can also create and configure new connections during the creation of new
remote projects, or when converting local projects to remote projects.
The main connection types supplied to work with a
Visual COBOL Development Hub product are:
- Micro Focus DevHub SSH Only
- the preferred connection due to its ease of set up. It uses the in-built SSH daemon on the remote UNIX machine. This connection
also does not require an X Server implementation to display program output when running or debugging remote applications.
- Micro Focus DevHub using RSE - this connection type requires the configuration and running of RSE daemons on the remote machine. These daemons are supplied
with
Visual COBOL Development Hub.
- Micro Focus DevHub using SAMBA, NFS etc - this connection uses the SAMBA and NFS protocols for accessing files on the remote system; remote project locations must
be mapped to drives on the local machine. There is also some configuration of the RSE daemons required. The performance of
this connection type is slower than the others, and is therefore not recommended for large project bases.
- Micro Focus DevHub using SSH - this connection uses the sftp (SSH) protocol to access files on the remote system and launch RSE servers, but still uses
RSE servers to launch and execute commands on the remote system.
There are other connection types that can also be used, but these offer the tightest integration with your IDE.