Thank you for visiting the Micro Focus Community Forum. Please try the following:
1) Click File > Import > Micro Focus > Remote COBOL Projects. (In some versions of Visual COBOL for Eclipse, that last option may be just called "Remote Projects".)
2) On the next panel, click Browse
3) On the Browse for File dialog, change the connection from Local to your remote connection
4) Navigate to the desired project from "My Home", or from the Root directory
5) In the projects list, choose the desired project, and click Finish
The project is added to your Eclipse workspace.