To ensure full functionality for some
Visual COBOL features, you might be required to obtain and install additional third-party software in addition to the prerequisite software
installed automatically by the
Visual COBOL setup file. The following information specifies the third-party software required for each feature.
Application Server JCA support for Enterprise Server
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Restriction: This feature applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.
Various Java EE versions are supported for the deployment of EJBs
generated using the Interface Mapping Toolkit,
as follows:
- Java EE 5 includes support for EJB 3.0 and Java Connector Architecture 1.5
- Java EE 6 includes support for EJB 3.1 and Java Connector Architecture 1.6
- Java EE 7 includes support for EJB 3.2 and Java Connector Architecture 1.7
The following Java application servers are supported using the following JDKs:
| Application Servers
|
JDK (vendor)
|
Java EE
|
COBOL RA
|
| JBoss EAP 6.4 (AS 7.5)
|
1.6, 1.7, 1.8 (Oracle), 1.8 (OpenJDK)
|
6
|
X
|
| Oracle WebLogic 10.3.x
|
1.6, 1.7 (Oracle)
|
5
|
X
|
| Oracle WebLogic 12.1.x
|
1.6, 1.7, 1.8 (Oracle)
|
6
|
X
|
| Oracle WebLogic 12.2.1
|
1.8 (Oracle)
|
7
|
X
|
| IBM WebSphere 8.5
|
1.6, 1.7 (IBM)
|
6
|
X
|
| IBM WebSphere 9.0
|
1.8 (IBM)
|
7
|
X
|
| Tomcat 7.0.x*
|
1.6, 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).
|
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 RAs and ECI
|
| JBoss EAP 7.0 (AS 7.5)
|
1.8 (Oracle), 1.8 (OpenJDK)
|
7
|
X
|
| IBM WebSphere 8.5.5
|
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
Visual COBOL, please report them to
SupportLine. 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.
Code Analysis
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Apache Ant is required to perform code analysis from the
Visual COBOL command line. You can download Apache Ant from
Apache's Web site.
COBOL on
Microsoft Azure
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This release supports the
Microsoft Azure SDK version
2.9.6.
Microsoft Azure requires that you install some additional software. See the Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Web site for a full list of the required software.
Consolidated Trace Facility
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The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later is required for the CTF Viewer. It is available from the Microsoft .NET downloads
area.
Note: The setup file installs .NET Framework v4.5.2.
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 Windows
|
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, 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 11.2, 12.1, and 12.2
- 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.
- Testing
- For this version, COBSQL was tested with Oracle 11.2, 12.1, and 12.2.
Database Access -
DB2 ECM
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Before
developing or
deploying
a DB2 ECM application, be sure to install and configure all applicable third-party software.
Note: DB2 ECM is supported for native COBOL only.
- Availability
-
| Feature/Platform
|
32-bit
|
64-bit
|
| x86-64 running Windows
|
X
|
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 9.7 or later
- IBM DB2 Connect Version 9.7 or later
- Testing
- For this version,
DB2 ECM was tested with
DB2 LUW
9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1.
Database Access - OpenESQL
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Before
developing or
deploying an OpenESQL application, be sure to install and configure all applicable third-party software.
- Availability
-
| Feature/Platform
|
Native and
.NET
COBOL 32-bit
|
Native and
.NET
COBOL 64-bit
|
| x86-64 running Windows
|
X
|
X
|
- XA Switch Module
- When the Enterprise Server feature is enabled, the
ODBC One-phase Commit, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL switch modules are provided and available on the same platforms as are indicated
in the
Availability section above.
- Native 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
- .NET COBOL
-
- OpenESQL supports access to relational databases using compliant .NET framework drivers
- OpenESQL has been tested against the following ADO.NET data providers:
- Microsoft provider for SQL Server
- Microsoft provider for Oracle
- IBM DB2
- Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) - fully managed and unmanaged providers
- OleDb
- Managed ODBC .NET providers
- Npgsql 3.2.2 for EDB PostgreSQL
- SQL CLR Integration
- The following software is required to use the SQL CLR integration feature, which is specifically for the development and deployment
of COBOL stored procedures under Microsoft SQL Server.
Projects based on the SQL Server Database Project template require:
- Microsoft SQL Server Tools (SSDT SDK)
- Either of the following:
- Visual Studio Shell 2013
- Visual Studio 2013
Professional, Premium, Ultimate or Community Edition
- Any of the following:
|
|
Target
|
Version
|
Microsoft Recommendation
|
| SQL Server 2008 R2 and later
|
.NET Frameworks (2.0, 3.0, 3.5)
|
CLR v2.0-based
|
.NET Framework 3.5.1
|
| SQL Server 2012 and later
|
.NET Frameworks 4.x
|
CLR v4.0-based
|
.NET Framework 4.5.2
|
| SQL Azure Database (option 1)
|
.NET Frameworks (2.0, 3.0, 3.5)
|
CLR v2.0-based
|
Review the latest Microsoft recommendations to select an appropriate .NET Framework.
|
| SQL Azure Database (option 2)
|
.NET Frameworks 4.x
|
CLR v4.0-based
|
If you are accessing Microsoft SQL Server from a remote machine, install the same
Visual COBOL or
COBOL Server version on the remote Microsoft SQL Server machine as you have running on your local machine. For additional information,
see
SQL Server COBOL Stored Procedures.
Important: The SQL CLR Database project template available in previous versions of
Visual COBOL is no longer supported. Projects based on the SQL CLR Database project template are automatically upgraded to use the SQL
Server Database project template when opened in
Visual COBOL
for Visual Studio 2013.
- Testing
- For this version, OpenESQL was tested with:
- Oracle 11.2 and 12.1
- DB2 LUW 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1
- SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2017
- EDB PostgreSQL 9.6
- MySQL 5.7 (5.3 ODBC drivers only)
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.
Deployment - running . NET COBOL applications from a network server
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For .NET COBOL applications that you run from a network server, the server must have the Microsoft .NET Framework version
4.5.2 or later and the Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable Runtime installed.
Java Development Kit (JDK)
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For COBOL JVM code and Java Interoperability, Oracle's Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 7, 8 (32 or 64-bit versions),
and Java 9 (64-bit version only), and AdoptOpenJDK's OpenJDK 8 with Hotspot are supported. You can download Oracle's Java
SE 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.
WebSphere MQ
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This product supports IBM
WebSphere MQ version 7 and later.
Windows Forms
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- Microsoft Visual Studio is required for using the Interface Mapping Toolkit (IMTK) to generate Windows Forms and ASP.NET Web
site test clients.
- Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS) is also required for generating Windows Forms test clients.
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.