Micro Focus Bankdemo Application

This project provides tutorials and demonstrations of features in the OpenText™ Micro Focus Enterprise Developer and OpenText™ Micro Focus Enterprise Server products. To use these materials, download the assets of the project release that matches the version of the Micro Focus product you will be using. Check and follow the appropriate READMEs for instructions.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. License
3. Using The Bankdemo Application
   1. Enterprise Developer Introductory Tutorial
   2. On Premise Enterprise Server Capabilities

Introduction

The Micro Focus Bankdemo application is a simplified mainframe "green screen" banking application which runs under Micro Focus Enterprise Server. This project provides demonstrations and tutorials of various ways you can configure or modify the application to suit differing requirements which could then be used as a template for running and configuring your own application.

The project demonstrates a selection of the capabilities of Micro Focus Enterprise Server and these options will be extended over time. It demonstrates applications running on-premise and also includes introductory tutorials for the use of the Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Eclipse and Visual Studio integrated development environments.

In the simplest configuration, it demonstrates a CICS/JCL COBOL application that accesses banking data held in indexed (VSAM) files on disk. However, it can also be configured to access data from a PostgreSQL database and database hosted VSAM files using the Micro Focus Database File Handler (or MFDBFH for short). Micro Focus will be adding further demonstrations in the future to show more complex deployments such as those involving scale-out and cloud deployments.

License

Copyright 2010-2023 Open Text. All Rights Reserved. This software may be used, modified, and distributed (provided this notice is included without modification) solely for internal demonstration purposes with other Micro Focus software, and is otherwise subject to the EULA at https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/legal/software-licensing.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, SHALL NOT APPLY. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL MICRO FOCUS HAVE ANY LIABILITY WHATSOEVER IN CONNECTION WITH THIS SOFTWARE.

Using The Bankdemo Application

To use the project, download the source.zip or source.tar.gz from the release that matches the Micro Focus product version you want to use, then follow the relevant readme instructions. You can use the project in one of the following ways:

1. As the basis of the introductory tutorials for the Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Eclipse and Visual Studio integrated development environments.

   • Prerequisite software:
     • Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Eclipse or Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Visual Studio 2022
   • Available tutorials:
     • Getting Started with Enterprise Developer for Eclipse (Windows)
     • Getting Started with Enterprise Developer for Eclipse (Linux)
     • Getting Started with Enterprise Developer for Visual Studio
     • Open PL/I Bankdemo Application in Enterprise Developer for Eclipse
     • Open PL/I Bankdemo Application in Enterprise Development for Visual Studio
   • Requirements:
     • The Micro Focus Directory Server (mfds) service must be running
     • Micro Focus Common Web Administration (ESCWA) must be running and listening on the default localhost port - 10086.

2. Demonstrations of the Micro Focus Enterprise Server capabilities in "on-premise" scenarios:

   • Prerequisite software:
     • Micro Focus Enterprise Server or Enterprise Developer on Windows or on a supported Linux distribution.
     • Python 3 with the requests and for the PostgreSQL demo psycopg2-binary packages (use the following command to install the packages: python -m pip install requests psycopg2-binary)
     • Check the tutorial or demonstration instruction for any additional requirements
   • Available demonstrations:
     • Deploying and running Bankdemo with VSAM data
     • Deploying and running Bankdemo with PostgreSQL
     • Deploying and running Bankdemo with VSAM stored in PostgreSQL using MFDBFH
     • Deploying and running Bankdemo in a Performance and Availability Cluster with PostgreSQL
   • Requirements:
     • The Micro Focus Directory Server (mfds) service must be running
     • Micro Focus Common Web Administration (ESCWA) must be running and listening on the default localhost port - 10086.

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