Hardware Requirements

Visual COBOL has the following requirements in addition to the requirements of Eclipse. See the Eclipse documentation for details of its requirements.

The disk space requirements are, approximately:

Visual COBOL
2.6GB
Note: The disk space requirements include the size of the Eclipse IDE and the version of Java and the .NET Framework provided with the Visual COBOL setup file. This includes the space needed to cache information locally so that you can modify the installation without the original source media.

z/Server requirements

z/Server has the following hardware requirements:

  • IBM mainframe model z9 or later is required for installing and using z/Server. z/Server will not install on earlier hardware models.