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Micro Focus COBOL(TM) for UNIX Micro Focus COBOL for UNIX, Getting Started HP Part No. B2433-90050 Printed in U.S.A. Edition Issue 3 E1095
________________________________________________________________________ |Micro Focus has made every effort to ensure that this manual is | |correct and accurate but reserves the right to make changes without | |notice at its sole discretion at any time. | | | |The software described in this document is supplied under a license | |and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such | |license, and in particular any warranty of fitness of Micro Focus | |software products for any particular purpose is expressly excluded and| |in no event will Micro Focus be liable for any consequential | |loss. | ________________________________________________________________________ Copyright (c) 1987-1994 by Micro Focus Limited ________________________________________________________________________ |Micro Focus(R) and Animator (R) are registered trademarks of Micro | |Focus Limited. | | | |CCI(TM), Co-Writer (TM), Directory Facility (TM), Operating System | |Extensions (TM), Panels(TM), Panels Version 2(TM), Run-Time | |Environment(TM), RTE(TM), Structure Animator (TM), Toolbox(TM), Micro | |Focus COBOL (TM), Operating System Extensions(TM), COBOL Toolbox (TM),| |Micro Focus COBOL/2 (TM), and Dialog System (TM) are trademarks of | |Micro Focus Limited. | | | |IBM (R), OS/2 (R), and PS/2 (R), are registered trademarks of | |International Business Machines Corporation. | | | |IBM COBOL/2(TM), DOS/VS COBOL, and Systems Application Architecture | |(TM) are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. | | | |Windows (TM) is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. | | | |RM/COBOL (R) is a registered trademark of Ryan-McFarland Corporation. | | | |X/Open (R) and UNIX(R) are registered trademarks of X/Open Company | |Limited. | ________________________________________________________________________ Printed October 1995 Your Getting Started Book This volume contains two parts, which are written (and referred to in the text) as two independent books: * Getting Started with Toolbox * Getting Started with COBOL Each introduces you to the relevant system, introduces the topic of installing it, describes how to use it, and guides you around the features, utilities and documentation it contains. Details of installation procedure are given in a separate Read This First and Product Installation Guide card, as they may differ depending on your version of UNIX.
NOTE You need only read the Getting Started book (that is, the part of this volume) for the COBOL system you have now acquired.
The two books appear in the order: COBOL Toolbox; COBOL. Each is a complete book, containing its own Table of Contents and Index. Before turning to the appropriate book, please read the information in the rest of this introduction. In particular, please note the following about licensing. Licensing Certain components of your COBOL system can be shipped on to your users to support your applications, provided you conform to the license agreement that accompanies this product. This is explained in detail in your particular Getting Started book. A list of the components covered is given in the section Shippable Components at the end of these introductory pages. COBOL and COBOL Toolbox The product you have acquired is one of two related products: * Micro Focus COBOL * Micro Focus COBOL Toolbox Micro Focus COBOL The main component of Micro Focus COBOL is the cob command. This calls the Compiler and the Native Code Generator to turn COBOL source into object code. This can be in .o files, in which case cob can then call the system linker to turn the object code into executable code, linking it with library routines provided to support the COBOL code. Alternatively it can be in one of two Micro Focus formats. It can be intermediate code, which is highly portable between Micro Focus systems on different environments, or generated code, which is optimized for your current environment. These formats are run using the cobrun command. Micro Focus COBOL also includes some programming tools, most notable of which is the Animator. This is a testing tool that lets you watch and alter the flow of control through your source code as your program is running. Micro Focus COBOL Toolbox Micro Focus COBOL Toolbox provides a menu-driven environment, called the Toolbox Development Environment, from which you invoke the components. All the components of Micro Focus COBOL are included. Also provided is an editor called the COBOL Editor, which you can use to write your source program. You can also use the Compiler and Animator from within the COBOL Editor. COBOL Toolbox includes many other tools and modules that extend the features available from within COBOL. You have the same choice as with Micro Focus COBOL, of producing object code in .o files, intermediate code, generated code, or linked executable files. Shippable Components Important Creating, Distributing and Licensing Your Applications for Internal Use and Resale If you are writing applications to be shipped to end-users, you will need to include licensed run-time support modules necessary to run them. These modules are part of the Micro Focus Operating System Extensions (OSX). The following tables list the components of the OSX. An additional charge is payable to Micro Focus for distribution of copies of the Operating System Extensions. Please contact your Micro Focus Account Representative for details of these charges. The Operating System Extensions are also available as a separate product. Components supplied by Micro Focus as part of the product, other than those listed in the following tables, must not be reproduced or distributed. The list below shows the components in OSX that are available on DOS, Windows, OS/2 and UNIX. * Application Configuration System * Banner * BTRIEVE Interface * Co-Writer Reporter * COBOL Communications Module * COBOL System Library Routines (call-by-name with CBL_ prefix) * Common Communications Interface (CCI)-CCITCP Protocol * Directory Facility * File Handler * Fileshare Version 2 * Fileshare View and Administration Tool (not available on all UNIX platforms) * Fileshare Manager * Help Program * Linein * Menu Handler * On-line Help System * PANELS * Panels Version 2 (not available on all UNIX platforms) * Screen and Keyboard Handler * Screen and Keyboard Configuration Tools * The run-time libraries that support industry-standard object files (.o), Micro Focus format object files (.int and .gnt ), and executable files The list below shows the components in OSX that are available on UNIX. * CISAM v4 objects * CISAM v5 objects * Copy Protection Mechanism (if supplied) * File Handler Utilities * Installation Script * Product Version File * Run-time Trigger