Mainframe Express COBOL Instructions
CIS 221, COBOL I Dakota State University Fall 2002 Mainframe Express COBOL Instructions Part 1 Creating Your Initial Semester Project Files and Running a COBOL Program This entire process needs to be done on a computer on which Mainframe Express is installed. ... This is where machine code will be placed by the compiler SOURCE COBOL programs (. ... Phase 2: Create the Mainframe Express Class Project 1) Open Mainframe Express and get to the Mainframe Express main screen. ... MF Express should already have typed this for you as you were typing your project name (Step 1). ... Phase 3: Files That This Procedure Just Created Leaving Mainframe Express open, get back into Windows Explorer and take a look at the contents of c:mfuserprojectsyourfolder, and you should see the following files: File Name What It Is Catalog. ... mvp The Mainframe Express project yourlogonid. ... Phase 4: Tricking Mainframe Express into Allowing Us to Work with PC COBOL At this point of the course, we want Mainframe Express to act as much as possible as Micro Focus Personal COBOL. Accomplishing this will take two steps; one of them must be repeated every time you open Mainframe Express, because it will be reset to the default whenever the lab computers are regenerated. ... d) Click on the down arrow next to COBOL dialect and select Non-mainframe. ... 2) Step 2: Needs to be Done (or at least checked) Every Time You Use Mainframe Express a) On the menu bar, click Options . ... b) On the Debug Options dialog box, check the option Enable debugging of Non-Mainframe applications. ... Phase 5: Creating a COBOL Source File 1) On the menu bar, click File . ... Phase 6: Adding Project Files Even though you have already placed files (source files or data files) in your project folders, you still need to “add it” to the project before Mainframe Express will acknowledge the existence of the file. To add one or more files to a Mainframe Express project: 1) The project must be open; it should be in this case.