Set Up the IMSSupport Project

Create the IMSSupport project

1. Open a Visual Studio command prompt and enter:

   devenv

   This starts Visual Studio. If you are prompted to select an initial action, click Continue without code.
2. In Visual Studio, click File > New > Project.
3. In the Create a new project dialog box, select COBOL from the Language drop-down list.
4. In the center pane, select Mainframe Subsystem Application.
5. Click Next.
6. In the name field, type the name of the project: IMSSupport.
7. Specify your working directory, c:\tutorials\IMS, in the Location field.
8. Check Place solution and project in the same directory.
9. Click Create.

   In Enterprise Developer, this creates a solution named IMSSupport that contains one project, also named IMSSupport.

Add demonstration application files

1. In the Solution Explorer, right-click the project and then use Add > New Folder to add each of these subfolders to the project:
   • cbl
   • dbd
   • mfs
   • psb
   • loadlib
   • system

   This adds the project subfolders to the Solution Explorer, and creates project subdirectories on disk.

   Use the following table to help you determine which demonstration files to add to which subfolder.

   Subfolder name	Files to add	Comments
   cbl	DEMO001T.CBL RGHTJUST.CBL
   dbd	DEMO03DD.DBD
   loadlib	TRANCODE.TXT DEMO03DD.DBU	Contains data files and eventually the executables required at run time.
   mfs	DEMO90.MFS DEMO91.MFS DEMO92.MFS
   psb	DEMO001T.PSB
   system	None	Eventually contains system files such as the resource definitions file, dfhdrdat

2. In the Solution Explorer, right-click a subfolder of your project and select Add > Existing Item.
3. Browse to the %PUBLIC%\Documents\Micro Focus\Enterprise Developer\Samples\Mainframe\IMS\Classic\IVP directory.
4. Optionally set the Objects of type filter to show only the type of files you want to add.
5. Select the appropriate files; then click Add.
6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 to add all appropriate demo files.

   This adds the files to the project and creates copies of the files in the respective subdirectories of your project.

Set project properties

1. In the Solution Explorer, double-click your project's Properties folder.

   The Properties page lists a series of tabs on the left side.

2. On the COBOL tab, set Configuration to Active (Debug).
3. Set Platform target to Active (x86).
4. Set COBOL dialect to Enterprise COBOL for z/OS.
5. Set the Character set to ASCII.
6. Set Source Format to Fixed.
7. Check Compile for debugging.
8. In the Output path field, type the path to the loadlib subfolder of your project. Because the current directory is the project directory, this can be expressed as .\loadlib.
9. On the IMS tab, type .\loadlib into the Generated file path, MFS output path, and Database path fields.

   This directs the output for all generated IMS files into the loadlib project directory.

10. In the DBD Build Settings section, check Generate Map for DBD.
11. On the Debug tab, select IMS from the Launch drop-down list.
12. Click File > Save All to save the changes in the project properties.

Build the project

1. In the Solution Explorer, right-click the project; then select Build from the context menu.
2. Check your project directory to see the different executables and other files produced by the build such as those in the project's loadlib directory. For example:
   • DBDGEN2.DAT
   • DBDGEN2F.DAT
   • PSBGEN3.DAT
   • DEMO001T.ACB
   • DEMO03DD.ACB
   • The MFS files generation creates some .mid, .mod, .dif and .dof files. These files contain system configuration data. You should move them only if you know how to configure your enterprise server.
   • Building the DBD and the PSB files produces respectively dbdgen2.dat, dbdgen2f.dat, psbgen3.dat as well as some .acb files.

Start the HACloud session

Ensure that the Micro Focus HACloud service property is set to start up automatically. For instructions on how to do so, see Starting the HACloud Session Server.