Additional Software Requirements

Application Server support for JVM COBOL

The following application servers are supported using the following JDKs:

Application Servers	JDK version	Containers support version
Tomcat 7.0.x	1.7	Servlets 2.5
JBoss EAP 6.4	1.7, 1.8	Servlets 2.5
WebLogic 12.1.1	1.7	Servlets 2.5
WebLogic 12.1.1 on AIX 6.1	1.7 Release 1	Servlets 2.5
WebLogic 12.2.1	1.8	Servlets 2.5
WebSphere 8.5	1.7	Servlets 2.5
WebSphere 8.5 on AIX 6.1	1.7 Release 1	Servlets 2.5
WebSphere 9.0	1.8	Servlets 2.5

Please consult your Application Server documentation to determine which JDK you should use. The JDK is used to:

Start the Application Server
Compile EJBs and Servlets generated by the Interface Mapping Toolkit or the imtkmake command

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

Support for the following Java application servers using the following JDKs is planned for future release:

Application Servers	JDK (vendor)	Java EE	COBOL RA	CICS RAs and ECI
JBoss EAP 7.0	1.8 (Oracle), 1.8 (OpenJDK)	7	X	X
IBM WebSphere 8.5.5 (all platforms)	1.7, 1.8 (IBM)	6	X
Tomcat 8.5.x*	1.7, 1.8 (Oracle), 1.8 (OpenJDK)
*Apache Tomcat is an HTTP server and servlet container supporting Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP). Micro Focus Tomcat non-transactional support includes servlet generation with J2SE Beans; no transactional support is provided. Tomcat does not support the use of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) or resource adapters (RAs).

Note: If you experience any incompatibility issues when using these third-party products with Enterprise Server, please report them to Customer Care. Until full support is available, a timely effort to resolve incompatibility issues will be made; however, Micro Focus does not guarantee full compatibility until we have fully tested our software updates against these products.

Note:

On AIX and zLinux, you need to have IBM's JDK. The earliest supported release of IBM's JDK 1.7 is 7.0 Service Refresh 8. If you install IBM's JDK 8, on AIX you must install its latest fix - JDK 8 SR5 FP16. You can get IBM's AIX JDK from IBM's Web site.
On HP-UX, you need to have HP-UX JDK. The earliest supported release of HP-UX JDL 1.7 is Java 7.0.11. You can get the HP-UX Java JDK from HP's Web site.
On Solaris platforms (both SPARC and Intel) only the 64-bit version of Java 8 is supported.
On all other platforms, you need Oracle's JDK. The earliest supported release of Oracle's JDK 1.7 is 1.7.027. You can download Oracle's JDK from Oracle's Web site.

Application Server JCA support for Enterprise Server

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Java EE 7, including support for EJB 3.2 and Java Connector Architecture 1.7, is supported for the deployment of EJBs.

The following Java application servers are supported using the following JDKs:

Application Servers	JDK (vendor)	Java EE	COBOL RA	CICS RAs and ECI
JBoss EAP 7.1.x (where x>=4 for JCA), and 7.2x	1.8 (Oracle) 1.8 (AdoptOpenJDK)¹	7	X	X
Oracle WebLogic 12.2.1	1.8 (Oracle)	7	X
IBM WebSphere 8.5.5	1.7, 1.8 (IBM)
IBM WebSphere 9.0 and Liberty 19.0.0.x (where x>=12 for JVM COBOL	1.8 (IBM)	7	X	X³
Tomcat 9.0.x²	1.8 (AdoptOpenJDK)
¹JBoss EAP 7.1.4 and later restricts support of AdoptOpenJDK to Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms. For more information, see the Red Hat Web site for supported configurations. ²Apache Tomcat is an HTTP server and servlet container supporting Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP). Micro Focus Tomcat non-transactional support includes servlet generation with J2SE Beans; no transactional support is provided. Tomcat does not support the use of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) or resource adapters (RAs). ³CICS RAs and ECI support is available for IBM WebSphere 9.0 only

Please consult your Application Server documentation to determine which JDK you should use. The JDK is used to:

Start the Application Server
Compile EJBs and Servlets generated by the Interface Mapping Toolkit or the imtkmake command

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

The availability of COBOL and CICS resource adapters and ECI support for these Application Servers differs between UNIX platforms. The following table indicates where support is available for each platform:

Feature/Platform	JBoss EAP 7.1.4	JBoss EAP 7.2	WebSphere 9.0	WebSphere Liberty 19	WebLogic 12.2.1	Tomcat 9.0.x¹
AIX 7.1 on RS6000	64-bit³		64-bit³	64-bit⁴	64-bit⁴	64-bit
HP/UX 11.31 on Intel IA64	64-bit³		64-bit³		64-bit⁴	64-bit
Red Hat EL 6.2 on IBM390	64-bit³		64-bit³	64-bit⁴	64-bit ⁴	64-bit
Red Hat EL 6.1 on x86-64	64-bit³	64-bit³	64-bit ³	64-bit⁴	64-bit⁴	64-bit
Solaris 11.3 on AMD Opteron	64-bit³		64-bit ³		64-bit⁴
Solaris 11.3 on SPARC	64-bit³	64-bit³	64-bit ³		64-bit⁴
SUSE SLES 12 SP2 on IBM390	64-bit^2,3		64-bit³	64-bit⁴	64-bit ⁴	64-bit
SUSE SLES 12 SP2 on AMD x86-64	64-bit^2,3		64-bit³	64-bit⁴	64-bit⁴	64-bit
SUSE SLES12 on PowerLinux LE			64-bit
¹Apache Tomcat is an HTTP server and servlet container supporting Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP). Micro Focus Tomcat non-transactional support includes servlet generation with J2SE Beans; no transactional support is provided. Tomcat does not support the use of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) or resource adapters (RAs). ²JBoss EAP 7.1.4 and JBoss EAP 7.2 not listed as tested by RedHat on this platform. ³Supports both COBOL and CICS resource adapters. Also supports ECI. ⁴Supports COBOL resource adapters only.

Browser

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Browser versions which can be used for embedded browser support (such as SWT) and their corresponding Eclipse versions are listed here.

Note: Eclipse 4.5 and newer support Mozilla 1.4 GTK2 - 1.7.x GTK2, XULRunner 1.8.x - 1.9.x, 3.6.x, 10.x, 24.x and 31.x (but not 2.x nor other unlisted versions), WebKitGTK+ 1.2.x and newer (Eclipse 4.5 support for XULRunner 31.x is not available on Linux due to Bug 467646.). For Eclipse 4.6 you must install a 64-bit browser version.

CICS Web Services

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To use CICS Web Services, you must first install the IBM CCSID conversion tables. See Install and Configure CCSID Conversion Tables for details.

Database Access - COBSQL (Pro*COBOL)

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Before deploying a COBSQL application, be sure to install and configure all applicable third-party software.

Note: COBSQL (Pro*COBOL) is supported for native COBOL only.

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 Red Hat Linux	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

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.

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/lib/libclntsh.so       
export LD_PRELOAD

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

Testing

For this version, COBSQL was tested with Oracle 18c and 19c.

Database Access - HCO for DB2 LUW

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Before deploying an HCO for DB2 LUW application, be sure to install and configure all applicable third-party software.

Note: HCO for DB2 LUW is supported for native COBOL only.

Availability

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

XA Switch Module

The DB2 XA switch module is provided and is available on the same platforms as are indicated in the Availability section above.

Host Compatibility Option (HCO)

Host Compatibility Option requires that you have one of the following software products installed and configured:

IBM Database Connect
IBM DB2 LUW Personal Edition or DB2 Express-C
DB2 LUW Workgroup or Enterprise Edition

Testing

For this version, HCO for DB2 LUW was tested with versions 10.5, 11.1, and 11.5.

Database Access - Mainframe Batch Database Tools (MBDT)

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Note: This is a technology preview feature only. It is being made available to allow you to test and provide feedback on this new capability; however, this feature is not intended for production use and it is not supported as such.

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

OpenESQL

The MBDT toolset consists of OpenESQL applications, and are native code using ODBC. Please see the Database Access - OpenESQL section for further details.

Testing

For this release, MBDT was tested with DB2 LUW 10.5, 11.1, and 11.5; and Oracle 18c and 19c.

Database Access - OpenESQL

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Before deploying an OpenESQL application, be sure to install and configure all applicable third-party software.

COBOL Availability

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

PLI Availability

Feature/Platform	PL/I 32-bit	PL/I 64-bit
x86-64 running Red Hat Linux	X	X
x86-64 running SUSE Linux	X	X
IBM System p running AIX	X
SPARC running Solaris	X	X

XA Switch Module

The ODBC One-phase Commit switch module is provided and is available on the same platforms as are indicated in the COBOL Availability section above.

The PostgreSQL switch module (early adopter program) is available on the following platforms:

x86-64 running Red Hat Linux
x86-64 running SUSE Linux

Native COBOL and PL/I

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

JVM COBOL

OpenESQL supports access to relational databases using JDBC 4.0-compliant JDBC drivers. The following table shows the tested DBMSs and their corresponding JDBC driver filenames:

Tested DBMS Versions	JDBC 4.0 Compliant Drivers
DB2 LUW 10.5 DB2 LUW 11.1 DB2 LUW 11.5	db2jcc4.jar (and db2jcc_license_cu.jar)
Oracle 18c and 19c	ojdbc7.zip^*
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Microsoft SQL Server 2019	sqljdbc4.jar
EDB PostgreSQL 10.5 and 11.x	postgresql-42.0.0.jre7.jar
^*Some Oracle JDBC drivers are distributed as .zip rather than .jar files.

To use JDBC DataSource Objects, you must also install and configure a JNDI server.

If you are using a Java application server, it includes a JNDI server you can use to configure DataSource objects. This process is described in the Java documentation for the application server.
If you are not using a Java application server, or if you require a standalone JNDI server to configure DataSource objects for initial evaluation and development, see the To install and configure Simple-JNDI topic in this documentation set for instructions on downloading, installing, and configuring the open source JNDI server Simple-JNDI for this purpose.

Testing

For this version, OpenESQL was tested with the following:

Oracle 18c and 19c
DB2 LUW 10.5, 11.1, and 11.5
SQL Server 2017 and 2019
PowerLinux LE using DB2 LUW 10.5 only
EDB PostgreSQL 10.5 and MySQL 5.7 (5.3 ODBC drivers only) on the following platforms:
- x86-64 running Red Hat Linux
- x86-64 running SUSE Linux

Note: Micro Focus provides compatibility for PostgreSQL and MySQL but does not directly contribute to or support either open source project. Any issues relating to the functionality of either DBMS should be addressed through an open source support vendor.

Planned

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition running on the following platforms:

x86-64 running Red Hat
x86-64 running SUSE Linux

JCL Support - DSNREXX

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Attention: This feature is in Early Adopter Program (EAP) release status. We intend to provide the finalized feature in a future release. Please contact Micro Focus Customer Care if you require further clarification.

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

OpenESQL

DSNREXX is supported in OpenESQL applications, and is native code using ODBC. See the Database Access - OpenESQL section in this topic for additional software requirements, and the DSNREXX Support topics for complete details.

Testing

For this release, DSNREXX was tested with DB2 LUW 10.5 and later.

Java Development Kit (JDK)

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For COBOL JVM code and Java Interoperability, Java 8 (32 or 64-bit versions), and Java 11 (64-bit version only) are supported.