topic Re: Confused about Micro Focus cobol versioning in Operating System - HP-UX

Confused about Micro Focus cobol versioning

Lynne Seamans — Thu, 22 May 2003 18:10:22 GMT

Building a test machine, my application folks tell me they need Micro Focus cobol 2.0.11. I see that could be "Server Express" or Application Server" how do i pick the HP Product number.

They also need an OLDER version for upgrade parellel test.. It was B24433EB (HP Product) how do i get THAT? How do i figure out what Micro Focus level it compares to?

Thanks for any help.

Re: Confused about Micro Focus cobol versioning

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 22 May 2003 18:43:24 GMT

B2443EB is MicroFocus ObjectCOBOL; MicroFocus' replace for ObjectCOBOL is Server Express. B2433EB is on your HP Application CD's and is not codeword protected although you will need a flexlm license to run it.

Re: Confused about Micro Focus cobol versioning

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 22 May 2003 18:44:09 GMT

B2433EB is MicroFocus ObjectCOBOL; MicroFocus' replace for ObjectCOBOL is Server Express. B2433EB is on your HP Application CD's and is not codeword protected although you will need a flexlm license to run it.

Re: Confused about Micro Focus cobol versioning

Lynne Seamans — Thu, 22 May 2003 18:51:12 GMT

The old machine we're upgrading from has B2433EB Object COBOL/UX Developers Bundle of HP-UX 11.0.

Does that change anthing?

Thanks again!

Re: Confused about Micro Focus cobol versioning

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 22 May 2003 19:05:19 GMT

I will tell you something that I accidently discovered while testing some COBOL code on my sandbox. You can load the latest version of B2433EB from your Applications CD onto your new 11.11 box. It won't have a license so it won't compile anything. However, you can make it use the license server on your old box.

On your old box:
cd /usr/local
find flexlm -print | cpio -ocv > /tmp/flexlm.cpio

ftp /tmp/flexlm.cpio to your new box

On your new box:
cd /usr/local
cpio -icvdum < /tmp/flexlm.cpio

You don't need to start lmgrd on the new box; in fact, it won't start but there is now enough data to allow you to connect to the lmgrd on the old box. As long as you don't exceed your total license count, you are perfectly fine.
Actually, you don't even need the entire flexlm directory but the above method is the most straightforward. You will need to make sure that lmgrd is running on the old box.

Re: Confused about Micro Focus cobol versioning

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 22 May 2003 19:05:24 GMT

Re: Confused about Micro Focus cobol versioning

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 22 May 2003 19:06:10 GMT

Re: Confused about Micro Focus cobol versioning

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 22 May 2003 19:06:15 GMT

Re: Confused about Micro Focus cobol versioning

susan gregory_1 — Thu, 29 May 2003 23:29:14 GMT

The product number for Server Express is at the public web site. If you go to www.hp.com/go/cobol and click on "Server Express", then click on the "how to order" link, it will show you the product numbers for Server Express (the development package) and Application Server (the runtime package).