To ensure full functionality for some
Enterprise Developer features, you might be required to obtain and install additional third-party software in addition to the prerequisite software
installed automatically by the
Enterprise Developer setup file. The following information specifies the third-party software required for each feature.
.NET Core
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.NET Core SDK
You must have installed .NET Core SDK 2.1 or later before you can use
Enterprise Developer to build a COBOL application for use with .NET Core. Installing Visual Studio's ".NET Core cross-platform development" component
installs .NET Core SDK 2.1.
If you want to publish COBOL applications to work with a versions of .NET Core other than 2.1 you can download and install
the relevant versions of the .NET Core SDK. See
Microsoft: .NET Downloads for more information.
Visual Studio
You must be using
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 or later to be able to develop and publish a COBOL application for use on .NET Core.
In addition, you must have installed a version of the .NET Core SDK. You can install .NET Core SDK 2.1 by installing Visual
Studio's ".NET Core cross-platform development" component. If you do not have this component installed you can install it
from Visual Studio by clicking
.
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 generated using the Interface Mapping Toolkit.
The following Java application servers are supported using the following JDKs:
| Application Servers
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JDK (vendor)
|
Java EE
|
COBOL RA
|
CICS RAs and ECI
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| JBoss EAP 7.1.4
|
1.8 (Oracle)
1.8 (AdoptOpenJDK)
|
7
|
X
|
X
|
| Oracle WebLogic 12.2.1
|
1.8 (Oracle)
|
7
|
X
|
|
| IBM WebSphere 9.0
|
1.8 (IBM)
|
7
|
X
|
|
| Tomcat 9.0.x*
|
1.8 (AdoptOpenJDK)
|
|
|
|
| *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.
CICS Web Services
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To use CICS Web Services, you must first install the IBM CCSID conversion tables. See
CCSID Conversion Tables
for details.
Code Analysis
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Apache Ant is required to perform code analysis from the
Enterprise Developer 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 3.0.
Microsoft Azure requires that you install some additional software. See the Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Web site for a full list of the required software.
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
- 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:
- Oracle Pro*COBOL Version 12.2 and 18c database preprocessors
- Sybase Open Client Embedded SQL/COBOL Version 11.1 or later
- 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 Pro*COBOL version 12.2 and 18c.
Database Access -
HCO for DB2 LUW
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Before
developing or
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 Windows
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
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.
- 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
- HCO for DB2 LUW supports the following database preprocessors:
- IBM DB2 LUW Version 10.5 or later
- IBM DB2 Connect Version 10.5 or later
- Host Compatibility Option (HCO)
- Host Compatibility Option requires that you have one of the following software products installed and configured:
- IBM DB2 Connect - Personal, Enterprise, Application Server or Unlimited Edition
- IBM DB2 LUW - Workgroup or Enterprise Server Editions including Advanced versions
- IBM DB2 LUW - Express or Express-C Edition
- IBM Data Server Client (assumes installation of a remote DB2 LUW Server product)
- Testing
- For this version,
HCO for DB2 LUW was tested with
versions
10.5 and 11.1.
Database Access - HCO for SQL Server (HCOSS)
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Before
developing or
deploying an HCOSS application, be sure to install and configure all applicable third-party software.
- Availability
-
| Feature/Platform
|
32-bit
|
64-bit
|
| x86-64 running Windows
|
X
|
X
|
- Database Migration
-
Notes:
- We support only the mainframe DB2 versions that are currently under IBM support.
- If you intend to develop applications on your local machine, but deploy applications to a SQL Server database on a remote
machine, configure the remote machine using the requirements listed in the
Deploying Native Applications > Deployment Machine section below.
- Application Migration
-
- ADO.NET applications
- ADO.NET applications require either of the following combinations:
- COBOL Stored Procedures
- See the requirements specified in
SQL Server COBOL Stored Procedures.
- Deploying Native Applications
-
- Development Machine
- Install SQL Server 2012 or later, along with its recommended Microsoft ODBC driver version.
- Development SQL Server Machine
- SQL Server 2012 or later
Note: This can be the same machine as the development machine, but is not required to be.
- Deployment Machine
-
- Install
Enterprise Server or
Enterprise Test Server
- Install SQL Server 2012 or later, along with its recommended Microsoft ODBC driver version.
If you want to bind your application from the deployment machine, install the following additional software:
- Microsoft .NET 4 framework, or later
- SQL Server 2012 or later System CLR Types
- SQL Server 2012 or later Shared Management Objects
- Deployment SQL Server Machine
- SQL Server 2012 or later
Note: This can be the same machine as the deployment machine, but is not required to be.
- Testing
- For this version, HCO for SQL Server was tested with SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2017.
Database Access - Mainframe Batch Database Tools (MBDT)
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- Availability
-
| Feature/Platform
|
32-bit
|
64-bit
|
| x86-64 running Windows
|
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 version, MBDT was tested with:
- DB2 LUW 10.5
- Oracle 12.2
- SQL Server 2012
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
|
PL/I 32-bit
|
PL/I 64-bit
|
| x86-64 running Windows
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
- XA Switch Module
- 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 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
- .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. This feature is available for projects created using the SQL Server
Database Project template, which becomes available after installing the
ASP.NET and web development tools feature from the Visual Studio IDE (see
To install missing features from the IDE for details).
Projects based on the SQL Server Database Project template require:
- Microsoft SQL Server Tools (SSDT SDK)
- Visual Studio 2017 or later
Professional, Enterprise or Community Edition
- Any of the following:
|
|
Target
|
Version
|
Microsoft Recommendation
|
| 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
Enterprise Developer or
Enterprise 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
Enterprise Developer 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
Enterprise Developer
for Visual Studio 2019.
- Testing
- For this version, OpenESQL was tested with:
- Oracle 12.2 and 18c
- DB2 LUW 10.5 and 11.1
- SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2017
- EDB PostgreSQL 10.5
- 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.
- Planned
- Support for the following is planned for future release:
- Azure SQL Database (Managed Instance)
- Azure SQL Database (Logical server)
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition
Database Access - SQL Option for DB2
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- Availability
-
| Feature/Platform
|
32-bit
|
| x86-64 running Windows
|
X
|
- XA Switch Module
- XDB XA switch modules are provided and are available for the Windows x86-64 32-bit platform.
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.
Enterprise Server for .NET
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- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 or later
- If your Windows operating system does not automatically install the .NET Framework, download and install it separately. See
the Microsoft Web site for details.
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Enterprise Server for .NET requires that you have Microsoft SQL Server installed. The following versions are supported:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 or later - for production or development environments
- Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008 R2 or later - for development environments only
- TN3270 Terminal Emulator
- We recommend that you use
Micro Focus Rumba+, which comes with and can be automatically installed by
Enterprise Developer. However, you may choose to install any other third-party TN3270 terminal emulator.
Interface Mapping Toolkit (IMTK)
.NET client generation for Service Interfaces requires Visual C++, which is an optional feature of Visual Studio 2015 and
later. To ensure that Visual C++ is installed with Visual Studio, you must do a custom installation of Visual Studio, and
specifically choose the Visual C++ option.
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.
Alternatively, you can download AdoptOpenJDK's OpenJDK 8 with Hotspot from
AdoptOpenJDK's Web site and unpack the archive anywhere on your machine.
Note: Eclipse does not run using Java 11.
JCL Support - DSNREXX
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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 Windows
|
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 version, DSNREXX was tested with:
- DB2 LUW 10.5
- SQL Server 2012
Mainframe Access - Endevor Support
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- To use the Mainframe Access support for Endevor you must be using Endevor R14 or later. CA stabilized the Endevor API at R14,
so if you upgrade from R14 to a later version you will not need to update the support module that Mainframe Access uses.
Micro Focus
Rumba
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- On Windows 8, in order to install
Micro Focus
Rumba you must have the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 installed.
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.