Includes tutorials that cover basic CICS support, Web-enabled CICS support, and CICS Web services.
Assumptions
These tutorials are written from the perspective that all of the following is true. Specific instructions for setting up your
environment to adhere to these assumptions is found in the
Before you begin these tutorials section that follows:
- Windows
File Explorer is set to show file names and extensions.
- Micro Focus
Enterprise Developer has been installed on your local machine using default installation settings.
- Enterprise Developer is started on your local machine.
- Your parent project directory is
c:\tutorials\CICS. If you choose to use an alternative parent project directory, adjust the instructions accordingly.
- You are using the
Micro Focus
Host Access for the Cloud (HACloud) TN3270 emulator when instructed to run an application or transaction in TN3270 mode. If you choose to use an alternative
emulator, adjust the instructions to accommodate your software.
- You have addressed all of the items in the
Before you begin a tutorial section below.
Before you begin a tutorial
Before beginning a CICS tutorial, be sure you have addressed each of the following items:
- Set Windows File Explorer options
- These tutorials assume that your Windows File Explorer options are set to use the Details layout, and to show file name extensions.
See your Windows documentation for more information.
- Create a parent project directory
- Create a directory in which to store the project files imported or created while completing this tutorial, which cites a parent
project directory of
c:\tutorials\CICS.
- Start
Visual Studio
- If you need instructions to get
Visual Studio started on your local machine, see
To start
Visual Studio.
Note: If Visual Studio prompts you on startup to select an initial action, click
Continue without code.
- Set
Host Access for the Cloud TN3270 options
-
- In
Visual Studio, click
Tools > Options; then expand
Micro Focus Tools and click
TN3270 Display.
- In the right frame, ensure that
Host Access for the Cloud is selected, and then click
OK.
- Close the
Options page.
- Start the
HACloud Session Server
-
Ensure that you have updated the
Micro Focus
HACloud service property to start up automatically. For instructions on how to do so, see
Starting the HACloud Session Server.
To start the
HACloud session server on Windows:
- Ensure that the installed Java is added to the PATH environment variable.
- Start the
Enterprise Server region that runs the application you want to connect to.
- Start either the 32-bit or 64-bit
Enterprise Developer command prompt or
Enterprise Server command prompt - this must match the working mode, 32 or 64-bit, of the JRE you have installed.
- Type
startsessionserver at the command prompt, and press
Enter.
Check the console for the messages that the
Micro Focus
HACloud Session Server has started.
To start the
HACloud session server on UNIX:
- Ensure that the installed Java is added to the PATH environment variable.
- Start the
Enterprise Server region that runs the application you want to connect to.
Sequence
These CICS tutorials are not interdependent and may be done in any order: