Create a Project

To create a project to hold the demo application files:

  1. Start Eclipse and select a workspace location.
  2. In Eclipse, make sure that the Team Developer Perspective is your active Eclipse perspective, then right-click Enterprise Development Projects in the Application Explorer view and select New COBOL Project > Mainframe COBOL Project. This starts the New Mainframe COBOL Project wizard.
  3. Type ACCTCLNT in the Project Name field.
  4. The default location for storing new projects is the workspace you selected when you started the Eclipse IDE. If you wish to change this, disable Use default location and specify a different location.
  5. Click Finish. The ACCTCLNT project appears in the Application Explorer view. By default, its COBOL dialect is Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and the character set is EBCDIC.