System Requirements

Products

Application development

  • Visual COBOL for Visual Studio
  • Visual COBOL for Eclipse
  • Visual COBOL Development Hub

Integrated development environments

  • Visual Studio 2013, 2015, 2017
  • Eclipse 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 available in future update

Application deployment

  • COBOL Server
Platforms

Microsoft Windows

  • Windows—7, 8.1, 10
  • Windows Server— 2003 (deployment only), 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016
  • Windows XP—deployment only
  • Microsoft Azure SDK 3.0

IBM AIX

  • 7.1, 7.2

HP-UX

  • HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) on Itanium

Solaris

  • 10, 11 SPARC, 11 Intel

SUSE

  • 12 64-bit only on Intel, IBM Power and z Systems

RedHat

  • 6, 7 on Intel, IBM Power and z Systems

Oracle Linux

  • 6, 7 on Intel
  • Red Hat Compatible Kernel
  • Oracle Unbreakable Kernel

Java

  • 1.7, 1.8, 1.9

Java Application Servers

  • Tomcat 7
  • JBOSS EAP 6.4
  • Oracle WebLogic 12c
  • IBM WebSphere 8.5, 9.0

.Net

  • All framework versions supported

Relational Databases

  • Oracle 11g r2, 12c
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016
  • IBM DB2 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, 11.1
  • Postgres 9.6
  • MySQL 5.7

Middleware

  • Oracle Tuxedo and Tuxedo ART 12.1.3c
  • IBM TXSeries for Multiplatforms 9.1

Docker (COBOL has been tested in the following versions of Community and Enterprise Editions):

  • Windows Server 2016
    • CE 17.09.0-ce-win33
    • EE 17.06.2-ee-6
  • RedHat
    • CE 1.12.6
  • SUSE
    • CE 17.04.0-ce