Additional Software Requirements on Linux and UNIX

Application server support for JVM COBOL

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The following application servers are supported using the following JDKs:

Database Access

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Before you can use Visual COBOL to develop and deploy SQL applications that use COBSQL, DB2 ECM, or OpenESQL, ensure any third-party software prerequisites are installed and the environment is set properly.

Database Access - COBSQL (Pro*COBOL)

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Availability

Feature/Platform	32-bit	64-bit
x86-64 running Red Hat Linux	X	X
x86-64 running SuSE Linux	X	X
IBM System p running AIX	X	X
IBM System z running SuSE Linux	X	X
Itanium running HP-UX	X	X
x86-64 running Solaris	X	X
SPARC running Solaris	X	X

XA Switch Module

When the Enterprise Server feature is enabled, the Oracle XA switch module is provided for COBSQL (Pro*COBOL), and is available on the same platforms as are indicated in the Availability section above.

Certification of RDBMS Precompilers for Native COBOL

Certification of RDBMS precompilers with Micro Focus products is the responsibility of the RDBMS vendor, rather than Micro Focus. Certification information can be found within the relevant Oracle documentation. If you have an Oracle MetaLink account (http://metalink.oracle.com), document # 43208.1 provides details of all language compilers certified by Oracle for use with their precompilers.

Preprocessors

COBSQL supports the following database preprocessors:

• Sybase Open Client Embedded SQL/COBOL Version 11.1 or later
• Oracle Pro*COBOL Version 11.1 (11gR1) or later
• Informix Embedded SQL/COBOL Version 7.3 or later

Compiling

On x86 and x86-64 platforms, when compiling with COBSQL for use with Oracle, do not use the COBSQL directive option NOMAKESYN, since this directive results in COMP host variables, and on Intel platforms these are incompatible with the native byte order expected by Oracle.

Executing

On HP-UX, to execute an application precompiled using Pro*COBOL (or COBSQL) after you have created a callable shared object of Oracle DBMS routines, you need set an environment variable, LD_PRELOAD, to point to the Oracle client callable shared object, for example:

LD_PRELOAD=$ORACLE_HOME/libdir/libclntsh.so       
export LD_PRELOAD

where libdir is:

• lib32 for 32-bit environments
• lib for 64-bit environments.

A script is available that creates an executable run-time system or a callable shared object containing Oracle support (applies to UNIX environments only). You can find the script in the Micro Focus Knowledge Base article titled Building and executing Pro*COBOL applications on UNIX.

Database Access - OpenESQL

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Availability

Feature/Platform	Native COBOL 32-bit	Native COBOL 64-bit
x86-64 running Red Hat Linux	X	X
x86-64 running SuSE Linux	X	X
IBM System p running AIX	X	X
IBM System z running SuSE Linux	X	X
Itanium running HP-UX	X	X
x86-64 running Solaris	X	X
SPARC running Solaris	X	X

XA Switch Module

When the Enterprise Server feature is enabled, the ODBC One-phase Commit switch module is provided and is available on the same platforms as are indicated in the Availability section above. For Windows environments, the SQL Server XA switch module is also provided.

Native COBOL and .NET Managed COBOL

• OpenESQL supports access to relational databases using ODBC 3.0-compliant drivers
• Refer to your driver vendor's documentation to determine whether your driver is suitable for use with OpenESQL

PostgreSQL

OpenESQL supports PostgreSQL versions 9.0 through 9.4 on the following UNIX platforms:

Feature/Platform	Native COBOL 32-bit	Native COBOL 64-bit
x86-64 running Red Hat Linux	X	X
x86-64 running SuSE Linux	X	X

Database Access - DB2 ECM

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Availability

Feature/Platform	32-bit	64-bit
x86-64 running Red Hat Linux	X	X
x86-64 running SuSE Linux	X	X
IBM System p running AIX	X	X
IBM System z running SuSE Linux	X	X
Itanium running HP-UX		X
x86-64 running Solaris
SPARC running Solaris	X

XA Switch Module

When the Enterprise Server feature is enabled, the DB2 XA switch module is provided and is available on the same platforms as are indicated in the Availability section above.

Certification of RDBMS Precompilers for Native COBOL

Certification of RDBMS precompilers with Micro Focus products is the responsibility of the RDBMS vendor, rather than Micro Focus. You can find IBM document certification information for DB2/COBOL applications within the IBM Information Center for DB2, in the topic Support for database application development in COBOL.

Preprocessor

DB2 ECM supports the following database preprocessors:

• IBM DB2 LUW Version 9.5 or later
• IBM DB2 Connect Version 9.5 or later

Java Development Kit (JDK)

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Compiling Java

Either the IBM or the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK), version 1.5 or later, is required for compiling Java. The JDK is downloadable from the Oracle and IBM Web sites. After installing the JDK, you must put the tools.jar file for the JDK on your classpath, using a command similar to:

 set classpath=jdk-install-directory\lib\tools.jar

After installing the JDK, you need to set up your Java environment.

XML Extensions

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• XML Extensions has the same requirements as Visual COBOL. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available. See the XML Extensions for Visual COBOL, available from the Visual COBOL product documentation section of the Micro Focus SupportLine Web site for more details.
• Additionally, XML Extensions may be used in conjunction with Terminal Server.