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NetCOBOL V11.0 NetCOBOL Studio User's Guide
FUJITSU Software

1.3 Starting NetCOBOL Studio

Start NetCOBOL Studio as follows:

Select the up arrow > "Apps" > "Fujitsu NetCOBOL V11" > "NetCOBOL Studio" from the "Start" menu.


If the start screen appears, select the "Run" button. The NetCOBOL Studio window is displayed. The contents of the start screen are shown below.

Table 1.1 NetCOBOL Studio start screen

Item

Description

Run

Starts NetCOBOL Studio.

The folder name of the workspace that NetCOBOL Studio uses can be confirmed in the following way.

  • Place the mouse cursor on the "Run" button.

  • Click the "Setup" button and the workspace folder name is displayed.

Setup...

Used to make operating environment settings for NetCOBOL Studio.

When the "Setup" button is clicked, the "Setup Configuration" dialog box appears. For information about setting the workspace folder, refer to "Appendix C Handling of Workspace and Project".

For details on the environment settings, see the Help for the "Setup Configuration" dialog box.

Cancel

Closes the start screen and does not start NetCOBOL Studio.

When the "Always show Launch dialog" checkbox is selected in the "Setup Configuration" dialog box, this screen is displayed.

Table 1.2 "Setup Configuration" dialog box

Item

Description

Workspace folder name

Used to select the folder for the workspace.

NetCOBOL Studio uses the selected workspace folder.

To change the workspace folder,

  • Select the folder name and push the F2 key, or

  • Edit by clicking the left mouse button.

The following characters cannot be used for the workspace folder name.

"#", "%", ";"

Add

Adds the existing workspace folder to the workspace list. The dialog box displayed is varies according to the operating system and the Internet Explorer version.

When specify a non-existent folder name, a new workspace folder is created.

Delete

Deletes the workspace folder name from the workspace list. Even if the workspace folder name is deleted from the list, the actual folder is not deleted.

Use Explorer to delete unnecessary folders.

Execution option

Used to specify a startup option for NetCOBOL Studio. For a normal startup, do not specify an option.

-clean

Deletes the cache data used by Eclipse. When a plug-in is added, updated, or deleted, you should start NetCOBOL Studio by specifying this option.

-nosplash

Does not display the splash screen at start-up of NetCOBOL Studio.

-showlocation

Displays the workspace location in the NetCOBOL Studio title bar.

-vmargs JavaVMoption

Specifies the option for JavaVM.

Only "-Xmx option" and "-XX:MaxPermSize option" can be specified for JavaVMoption. NetCOBOL Studio assumes that "-Xmx256M -XX:MaxPermSize=64M" is specified.

For option details, refer to the NetCOBOL Studio help.

"Workbench User's Guide" > "Task" > "Running Eclipse" > "Eclipse Startup Parameters"

Note:

In NetCOBOL Studio, only the above option can be used.

Always show Launch dialog

When checked, the start screen is displayed. When not checked, the start screen is not displayed.

In a non-display state, when NetCOBOL Studio is started while holding the shift key, the start screen is displayed.