Set Up the ESREST Enterprise Server Instance

Start the Server Explorer

Start Enterprise Server Common Web Administration (ESCWA)

• From the Eclipse Server Explorer, right-click the Local [localhost:10086] node, and then select Open Administration Page from the context menu.

  ESCWA starts in your default browser.

Create ESREST

In this section, you create the ESREST enterprise server instance from the ESCWA Administration page.

1. In ESCWA, click Native.
2. In the navigation pane, expand Directory Servers, and then click Default.
3. In the right pane, click New.
4. In the Name field, type ESREST.
5. Uncheck MSS Enabled.
6. Click Save.

Configure ESREST

By default, your new enterprise server instance is already configured for REST Web services; however, you must make some adjustments, which include enabling dynamic debugging, setting an endpoint address for the Web Services and J2EE listener, and if you do not have Administrator privileges to the Visual COBOL installation folder, defining a deployment folder.

Enable Dynamic Debugging

1. On Region and Server List page, hover over the ESREST entry, and then click the Edit icon that appears to the right of the Security column.
2. Under Startup Options, check Allow Dynamic Debugging.
3. Click Apply.

Configure Listeners

1. In the navigation pane, be sure that ESREST is selected.
2. On the General drop-down list, select Listeners.
3. Expand Communications Process 1, and click Web Services and J2EE.
4. In the Port field, type 9003.
5. Click Apply.
6. Click the Web communication process.
7. Change the value of the Requested Status field to Stopped.
8. Click Apply.

Create and configure a deployment directory

Create the deploy directory

Without Administrator privileges, you cannot deploy to Enterprise Server from the default Visual COBOL deployment folder. To ensure successful deployment, create a deploy subdirectory in your project.

1. In the COBOL Explorer, right-click the project, and then select New > Folder from the context menu.
   Note: If Folder is not an option on the context menu, click Other, and create a new deploy folder from there.
2. In the Folder name field, type deploy, and then click Finish.

Import the .mfdeploy file

The new deploy folder must contain the .mfdeploy configuration file. You import the file from the COBOL Explorer.

1. From the COBOL Explorer, right-click the new deploy folder, and then select Import > Import from the context menu.
2. Expand General, and then click double-click File System.
3. Click the Browse button that corresponds to the From directory field, and browse to the %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL\deploy folder.
4. Click Select Folder.
5. Check .mfdeploy in the right pane.
6. Click Finish to import the file into the project.

Define the deployment directory in ESCWA

Now you need to configure your enterprise server region by defining the new deploy project folder as the deployment folder.

1. In ESCWA ensure that your enterprise server region is selected in the navigation pane, and the Communications Processes page is open in the right pane.
2. Under Communications Process 1, select Web.
3. In the Listener Properties pane, scroll down to the Custom Configuration field.
4. Within the Custom Configuration field, scroll down until you find the relevant code, then change:

   uploads=<ES>/deploy

   to:

   uploads=project-folder/deploy

   where project-folder is the full path to your project folder, using forward slashes to separate subfolders. For example:

   uploads=c:/Users/Bob/eclipse-workspace/project-name/deploy

   where project-name is the name of the project.

5. Click Apply.