Running the Container Demonstration for the Visual COBOL Base Image

The container demonstration to create the Visual COBOL base image includes a shell script (bld.sh) to make the process of running the demonstration as easy as possible. This topic lists and describes the parameters that you can specify when running bld.sh.

When using bld.sh to create a base image for Visual COBOL you need to ensure that the relevant installation files and licenses are available in the same folder as bld.sh. These are:

The installable executable file for Micro Focus Visual COBOL Development Hub. This is setup_visualcobol_devhub_for_docker_10.0_platform.gz and is supplied in the container demonstration for the Micro Focus Visual COBOL Development Hub base image.
The appropriate license (.xml) file for Micro Focus Visual COBOL Development Hub.
If you will be including Java support in the image, the relevant executable file to perform the installation of the JDK. You can get this file from your chosen JDK provider.

The command to execute the shell script to run the container demonstration for the Visual COBOL base image is as follows:

./bld.sh { IacceptEULA [options] }

options enables you to specify a number of characteristics for the image, such as any odbc or java requirements, or auto-login credentials. For a full list of available options and their definitions, run ./bld.sh without specifying any other parameters.