Distributing COBOL Application in Visual Studio

hello guys!

im new to cobol and this is my first time to learn this languange. i
just want to test the deployment of a simple application that i
created in Microfocus Netexpress 5.0 Personal Edition.
How can i deploy my simple program to my other pc with .NET 2.0
already installed?

i hope that you can help me with my problem

On Jul 20, 2:06*am, monkeyn...@gmail.com wrote:
> hello guys!
>
> im new to cobol and this is my first time to learn this languange. i
> just want to test the deployment of a simple application that i
> created in Microfocus Netexpress 5.0 Personal Edition.
> How can i deploy my simple program to my other pc with .NET 2.0
> already installed?
>
> i hope that you can help me with my problem

IIRC, 'Personal Edition' does not allow 'distribution' (see licence
conditions) nor does it produce executables which could be
distributed.

--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
<monkeynote@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:dc613d49-1289-4f3e-952d-d1d622031ee5@r35g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
> hello guys!
>
> im new to cobol and this is my first time to learn this languange. i
> just want to test the deployment of a simple application that i
> created in Microfocus Netexpress 5.0 Personal Edition.
> How can i deploy my simple program to my other pc with .NET 2.0
> already installed?
>
> i hope that you can help me with my problem

If your code is to run as unmanaged code under .NET you will need to wrap it
in an OO layer as described in the MicroFocus documentation.

Given that you have done this, you simply use the standard methods to deploy
it.

If you have used Net Express for .NET to develop it, this isn't necessary
(it generates MSIL) but you WILL need MF .NET server to run it. I think from
your post this is not your case anyway.

If you simply want to deploy it as a Windows app on a machine that happens
to have .NET installed, you deploy it in the standard way. Build your
project for execution and run setup on the target platform. You will need
the MF application server.

As far as I know, MF are not yet offering ClickOnce deployment which is the
simplest form of .NET deployment and makes everything extremely simple for
both the developer and the client.

If your application uses the .NET framework it must have the OO wrapping
layers required by MicroFocus and you must have a copy of their .NET server
installed on the target machine.

Given you have those things in place, deployment is pretty much the same as
it would be for any other environment.

You might try posting in the MicroFocus foru if you need more details.

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."

thank you guys for the reply...

is there any cobol compiler that does not need a runtime fees (free
runtime) that i can use? i tried learning this language for about a
week and it was so frustrating for me to jump into the cobol world.

<monkeynote@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:83c2c8dd-91a5-4e77-ba24-f4b4e5832b61@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com...
> thank you guys for the reply...
>
> is there any cobol compiler that does not need a runtime fees (free
> runtime) that i can use? i tried learning this language for about a
> week and it was so frustrating for me to jump into the cobol world.
>

Persevere with COBOL; it is useful knowledge to have.

Try downloading the free compiler from Fujitsu at
http://www.adtools.com/student/index.htm

It has no run fees and you can freely distribute the applications you write
with it.

Good luck, and post here (with samples of the offending code) if you have
problems.

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."

Fujitsu V3 is free and can be distributed, but make certain that you DO read
what it says at the web page Pete mentioned, i.e.

"For those of you who are learning COBOL on your own or taking a COBOL class and
need a COBOL compiler to experiment with - but NOT create production
applications - we provide Fujitsu COBOL Version 3 for FREE. Note that this is a
back-level version of Fujitsu COBOL. It provides support for ANSI Standard
COBOL, many Fujitsu COBOL extensions, is fully Windows compatible, and contains
a complete set of softcopy manuals. It is not a product we actively support and
as such it is not viable for creating production applications; however, it is
fully stable and excellent for most COBOL exercises"

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote in message
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>
>
> <monkeynote@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:83c2c8dd-91a5-4e77-ba24-f4b4e5832b61@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com...
>> thank you guys for the reply...
>>
>> is there any cobol compiler that does not need a runtime fees (free
>> runtime) that i can use? i tried learning this language for about a
>> week and it was so frustrating for me to jump into the cobol world.
>>
>
> Persevere with COBOL; it is useful knowledge to have.
>
> Try downloading the free compiler from Fujitsu at
> http://www.adtools.com/student/index.htm
>
> It has no run fees and you can freely distribute the applications you write
> with it.
>
> Good luck, and post here (with samples of the offending code) if you have
> problems.
>
> Pete.
> --
> "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
>

On 21 Jul, 05:20, "William M. Klein" <wmkl...@nospam.netcom.com>
wrote:
> Fujitsu V3 is free and can be distributed, but make certain that you DO read
> what it says at the web page Pete mentioned, i.e.
>
> "For those of you who are learning COBOL on your own or taking a COBOL class and
> need a COBOL compiler to experiment with - but NOT create production
> applications - we provide Fujitsu COBOL Version 3 for FREE. Note that this is a
> back-level version of Fujitsu COBOL. It provides support for ANSI Standard
> COBOL, many Fujitsu COBOL extensions, is fully Windows compatible, and contains
> a complete set of softcopy manuals. It is not a product we actively support and
> as such it is not viable for creating production applications; however, it is
> fully stable and excellent for most COBOL exercises"
>
> --
> Bill Klein
> *wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com"Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote in message
>

I recall trying to produce a run time for a Fujitsu application but
gave up (it kept asking for files which had not been copied to the
target environment. One file at a time requiring reboots can be
tedious).

<monkeynote@gmail.com> wrote:

> thank you guys for the reply...
>
> is there any cobol compiler that does not need a runtime fees (free
> runtime) that i can use? i tried learning this language for about a
> week and it was so frustrating for me to jump into the cobol world.

Open Cobol ?

www.opencobol.org

If you dig on the forum you'll discover that it's even DB2-friendly (as
far as I recall).

Best regards,

Davide
PS : unless you start thinking to fire up the OLD COBOL included in
Hercules' MVS ...
--
Ing. Davide Grandi
davide.grandi@mclink.it

> is there any cobol compiler that does not need a runtime fees (free
> runtime) that i can use? i tried learning this language for about a
> week and it was so frustrating for me to jump into the cobol world.

Microfocus NetExpress requires a MF Application Server (module) to be
deployed for your production application to run. This requires
licensing, though initially you could get a 10-user license copy for a
minimal fee.

Minimal fee? Not sure of it, got the information from a local
distributor but don't know the actual price. Probably anyone here
could provide the 'actual' pricing.