Note: This product includes OpenSSL version 1.0.2n.
Before installing this product, you must have the following software installed on your computer:
- Xterm, the terminal emulator for the X Window System, is part of your UNIX/Linux distribution but is not installed by default.
Use your UNIX/Linux installation media to install it.
- The "ed", "sed" and "tar" utilities must be installed and added to the PATH.
- On SUSE 12, you can only install and use the 64-bit version of
Visual COBOL.
- The pax archiving utility is required by the setup file. Pax is distributed with most UNIX/Linux systems but, if it is missing,
you must install it separately. To verify pax is installed, run
pax --help or
pax --version at the command line.
- Required libraries for Red Hat and SUSE Linux platforms - the installer checks that both the 32-bit and 64-bit libraries listed
below are installed on both 32-bit and on 64-bit Operating Systems for this product to install and work correctly.
If installing on a 64-bit OS, the 32-bit libraries are not installed by default and must be installed before you start the
installation.
Table 1. Default Libraries.
The following table shows which of the required libraries are not installed by default on the specified platforms - X indicates
the libraries are missing.
| Library
|
32-bit Library Name
|
64-bit Library Name
|
s390
Library Name
|
Platform
|
| SUSE 12¹
|
Red Hat 6.x
|
Red Hat 7
|
| glibc
|
glibc-*.i686
|
glibc-*.x86_64
|
glibc-*.s390
|
|
X
|
X
|
| libgcc
|
libgcc-*.i686
|
libgcc-*.x86_64
|
libgcc-*.s390
|
|
X
|
X
|
| libstdc++
|
libstdc++-*.i686
|
libstdc++-*.x86_64
|
libstdc++-*.s390
|
|
X
|
X
|
| glibc-devel
|
glibc-devel-*.i686
|
glibc-devel-*.x86_64
|
glibc-devel-*.s390
|
|
X
|
X
|
| glibc-locale
|
glibc-locale-32bit
|
glibc-locale-2
|
N/A
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
libgtk-2_0-0-2
|
N/A
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
gtk2-tools-2
|
N/A
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
libXcomposite1-0
|
N/A
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-2
|
N/A
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-2
|
N/A
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
libjasper1-1
|
N/A
|
X
|
|
|
| gtk2
|
N/A
|
gtk2-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
X
|
| gtk2-x11
|
N/A
|
libgthread-2_0-0-2
|
N/A
|
X
|
|
|
| libXtst
|
N/A
|
libXtst6-1
|
N/A
|
X
|
|
|
| libXtst
|
N/A
|
libXtst-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
X
|
| glibc-devel
|
glibc-devel-*.i686
|
glibc-devel-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
X
|
| PackageKit-gtk
|
N/A
|
PackageKit-gtk-module-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
| PackageKit-gtk3
|
N/A
|
PackageKit-gtk3-module-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
X
|
| gtk2-engines
|
N/A
|
gtk2-engines.*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
| libcanberra-gtk2
|
N/A
|
libcanberra-gtk2-*.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
X
|
| webkitgtk
|
N/A
|
webkitgtk.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
|
| webkitgtk3
|
N/A
|
webkitgtk3.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
|
X
|
| xterm
|
Any version
|
Any version
|
Any version
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
| unzip
|
Any version
|
Any version
|
Any version
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
| libgnome
|
N/A
|
libgnome.x86_64
|
N/A
|
|
X
|
X
|
| gcc2
|
gcc*.i686
|
gcc*x86_64
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
Visit the
Red Hat Web site for more information.
- ¹ On SuSe 12, you can only install the 64-bit version of
Visual COBOL. The glibc-locale-32bit library is still required by the SafeNet Sentinel licensed components.
-
2 On Red Hat these libraries are required to enable COBOL to compile.
- Oracle's Java Platform (64-bit) version 1.8 or later, or AdoptOpenJDK's OpenJDK 8 (64-bit) are required to run the Eclipse
IDE. The recommended minimum version is Java 1.8.162 (64-bit).
Oracle's implementation of Java 7, 8 (32 or 64-bit versions), and Java 9 (64-bit version only), and AdoptOpenJDK's OpenJDK
8 are supported for executing JVM COBOL code, and for native COBOL and Java interoperability. You can download Oracle's Java
EE from
Oracle's Web site and install it anywhere on your machine. Alternatively, you can download AdoptOpenJDK's OpenJDK 8 with Hotspot from
AdoptOpenJDK's Web site and unpack the archive anywhere on your machine.
Note:
- On AIX and zLinux, you need to have IBM's JDK. The earliest supported release of IBM's JDK 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 is JDK 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 and later is supported.
To execute JVM COBOL code, you need to set the environment as follows:
- You need to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable. When installing the product, set this variable to a 64-bit Java installation
or the installation terminates. For example, execute the following:
export JAVA_HOME=java_install_dir
where
java_install_dir is the path to the JAVA installation directory such as
/usr/java/javan.n
- You need to add
$JAVA_HOME/bin to your system PATH variable. To do this, execute:
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
- You need to set the LANG environment variable to pick up localized messages. The LANG settings are English and Japanese only.
Important: For local servers, you do not need to install the
Micro Focus License Administration tool separately, as the setup file installs a new
Visual COBOL client and a new licensing server on the same machine.
If you have a network server, you must update the license server before installing the product as the client is not able
to communicate with license servers of versions older than 10000.2.660. On Windows, you can check the version of your license server by clicking
Help > About in the
Micro Focus License Administration tool. To check the version of the license server on UNIX, run
/var/microfocuslicensing/bin/mfcesver or
/var/microfocuslicensing/bin/cesadmintool.sh.
If Micro Focus License Manager version 10000.2.02070 or older is installed, it must be uninstalled before the product installation
or upgrade can continue.
You can download the new version of the license server software from the
Micro Focus SupportLine Web site:
http://supportline.microfocus.com.