Installation

Software Requirements

The Rocket COBOL extension for Visual Studio Code has the following requirements:

• Microsoft's Visual Studio Code must be installed. For the Visual Studio Code requirements, see its product documentation.
• For local application development - a machine that has Windows or Linux installed. macOS is not supported.
• For remote development - the remote machine onto which you will install the Rocket COBOL extension must be running Windows or Linux. The local machine on which you run Visual Studio Code itself can be any platform that Visual Studio Code supports.
• See Additional Software Requirements for software that some of the extension's functionality depends on.

Downloading

You can download the Rocket COBOL extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace - click here.

Installing

You can install the Rocket COBOL extension for the first time directly from the Visual Studio Marketplace:

1. In Visual Studio Code, click View > Extensions.
2. Enter Rocket COBOL in the search extensions field.
3. Click Install in the extension description.

Alternatively, if you have downloaded the .vsix file of the extension:

1. In Visual Studio Code, click View > Extensions.
2. Click ... in the Extensions bar, and click Install from VSIX.
3. Navigate to and select the extension .vsix file on your machine, and click Install.

After Installing

After installing, you might need to configure the extension before you can edit, compile, and debug applications. For example:

• Specify any configuration details, and any paths to required software in the extension settings - see Configuring.
• Register COBOL support for the .NET Core debugger or the Java Language Server, if you want to debug .NET COBOL or JVM COBOL programs, respectively. See Debugging .NET COBOL projects or Debugging JVM COBOL Projects.

Updating

1. In Visual Studio Code, click View > Extensions.
2. Enter Rocket COBOL in the search extensions field.
3. Click (Manage) for the extension, and click Install Another Version.