NetCobol Installation For Linux

This is proprietary software sold by Fujitsu and managed in America by GTSoftware. You will first need to have the software. As it is extremely illegal for me to distribute proprietary software. However this will guide you through its installation smoothly.

The software is available as an rpm so I will attempt compatibility with RedHat 7, Centos 7, RedHat 6, Centos 6, and Fedora.

First thing first is that this product has license controls built in so first you will need to know the location of all the following rpm files.

• FJSVXcbrf-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
• FJSVXbsrt-7.0.0-3.0.x86_64.rpm
• FJSVXmeft-11.0.0-2.0.x86_64.rpm
• FJSVXcbev-11.0.0-3.0.x86_64.rpm
• FJSVXrds-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
• FJSVXcbl-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
• FJSVXcblf-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
• FJSVXcbr-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
• FJSVXcbre-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm

If you already have the MAC address of the computer this is being installed on then please go and get your license file and designate the path the to license file.

If you installed this via ansible galaxy then the default install location is in /etc/ansible/roles/ChristopherDavenport.netcobol

Requirements

None, it will make sure all dependencies are in place on supported systems.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

Failure Choices

If rpms are not present to be installed should the play fail. Default is true because your aim is to install netcobol.

netcobol_fail_on_rpms: True

If license file is not present do we fail on its absence. Default is true because without a license file netcobol will not work.

netcobol_fail_on_license: True

Netcobol RPM Management

The default location that rpms will be transfered to for the install.

netcobol_src_storage: /usr/local/src/netcobol

The default set of netcobol files to install on the system.

netcobol_files_to_install:
  - FJSVXcbrf-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
  - FJSVXbsrt-7.0.0-3.0.x86_64.rpm
  - FJSVXmeft-11.0.0-2.0.x86_64.rpm
  - FJSVXcbev-11.0.0-3.0.x86_64.rpm
  - FJSVXrds-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
  - FJSVXcbl-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
  - FJSVXcblf-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
  - FJSVXcbr-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
  - FJSVXcbre-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm

Netcobol License Management

The local name of the license file incase you have multiple files and hence need to pick individually per machine.

netcobol_local_license_file_name: license.txt

These final two are the location and name of the license file on the remote machine as are expected by netcobol so only modify these if netcobol drastically changes something.

netcobol_license_file_location: /etc/opt/NetCOBOL/

netcobol_remote_license_file_name: license.txt

Dependencies

• None

Example Playbook

Although definitely add the files into the role files folder before attempting to run this.

- hosts: appservers
  vars: 
    netcobol_files_to_install:
      - /path/to/rpms/FJSVXcbrf-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
      - /path/to/rpms/FJSVXbsrt-7.0.0-3.0.x86_64.rpm
      - /path/to/rpms/FJSVXmeft-11.0.0-2.0.x86_64.rpm
      - /path/to/rpms/FJSVXcbev-11.0.0-3.0.x86_64.rpm
      - /path/to/rpms/FJSVXrds-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
      - /path/to/rpms/FJSVXcbl-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
      - /path/to/rpms/FJSVXcblf-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
      - /path/to/rpms/FJSVXcbr-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
      - /path/to/rpms/FJSVXcbre-11.0.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
  roles:
    - ChristopherDavenport.netcobol

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2016 by ChristopherDavenport.