Software Requirements for Micro Focus Enterprise Developer UNIX Components

These are the software requirements for Micro Focus Enterprise Developer UNIX Components:

• The "ed", "sed" and "tar" utilities must be installed and added to the PATH.
• 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.

  Library	32-bit Library Name	64-bit Library Name	Platform
  			s390	SUSE 12	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-locale	glibc-locale-32bit	glibc-locale-2		X
  glibc-devel	glibc-devel-*.i686	glibc-devel-*.x86_64	glibc-devel-*.s390		X	X
  elfutils-libelf	elfutils-libelf.i386 or elfutils-libelf.i686	elfutils-libelf.x86-64	N/A		X	X
  libelf-devel	elfutils-devel.i386 or elfutils-devel.i686	elfutils-devel.x86-64	N/A		X	X
  libelf-devel	libelf-devel-32bit-0.137-8.19	libelf-devel-0.137-8.19	N/A	X
  libelf1	libelf1-32bit-0.137-8.19	libelf1-0.137-8.19	N/A	X
  gcc2	gcc*.i686	gcc*x86_64	X	X	X	X
  ld2	Binutils*.i686	Binutils*x86_64	X	X	X	X

  • ¹ On SUSE 12, you can only install the 64-bit version of Enterprise Developer. The glibc-locale-32bit library is still required by the SafeNet Sentinel licensed components.
  • * Additional libraries required to use the core_on_error runtime variable. The gdb packages (for the GNU Project Debugger) can be installed from the install media for your OS.
  • ** Operating system libraries required for PL/I support on both SUSE and Red Hat.
  • ² On Red Hat these libraries are required to enable COBOL and PL/I to compile.
  • Libraries marked with an 'X' are not included in the platform and need to be installed separately.

  Visit the Red Hat Web site for more information.

• 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.

• 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), which the Windows product installation will install if it detects an older version. 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 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.

• GNOME menus and buttons have been standardized across all applications so that icons are not displayed by default. To keep the icons and the look and feel of previous versions, enable the menus_have_icons property with the command:

  gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons true