Using the Container Demonstrations

Visual COBOL includes a number of container demonstrations that illustrate typical uses of containers with COBOL applications.

These container demonstrations include Dockerfiles and related batch/script files to simplify the process of running them, and this documentation contains descriptions of the files that comprise the container demonstrations. After running the container demonstrations and reading this documentation to help you familiarize yourself with how the demonstrations work you will have all the information you need to enable you to build and use images for use with your own COBOL applications.

The container demonstrations are supplied in the file vc_build_tools_dockerfiles_8.0_windows.zip which is accessible from the same place that you accessed the Visual COBOL installation file. Unzip vc_build_tools_dockerfiles_8.0_windows.zip into a folder of your choice to create a series of folders containing the container demonstrations.

Each container demonstration includes the following:

• A readme.html file that summarizes what it does and explains how to use it.
• A bld.bat file to run it. Execute bld.bat with no parameters for a summary of the parameters that you can specify. More information on the parameters you can specify is provided in Running the Container Demonstration for the Visual COBOL Base Image and Running the Hello World Container Demonstration.

See Supplied Container Demonstrations for information on the containers demonstrations that are available.