Software Requirements

Before installing this product, you must have the following software installed on your computer:

• 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.
• On Red Hat 6.x and Red Hat 7, you must have the following operating system libraries installed:
  • glibc-*.x86_64
  • glibc-*.i686
  • libgcc-*.x86_64
  • libgcc-*.i686
  • libstdc++-*.x86_64
  • libstdc++-*.i686

  In addition, on IBM System z (390), you must have the following operating system libraries installed:

  • glibc-*.s390
  • glibc-*.s390x
  • libgcc-*.s390
  • libgcc-*.s390x

  Visit the Red Hat Web site for more information.

• Oracle's Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 7 or Java 8 is required to execute COBOL JVM code and for native COBOL and Java interoperability. The setup file installs Java 8 u51 32-bit. You can download Oracle's Java EE from Oracle's Web site and install it 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. 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.

Before you start the installation, you need to set the environment as follows:

• You need to set the LANG environment variable to pick up localized messages. The LANG settings are English and Japanese only.
• The Java Development Kit (JDK) is required for compiling Java. The JDK is downloadable from www.oracle.com. After installing the JDK, you must put the tools.jar file for the JDK on your classpath, using a command similar to:

   set classpath=jdk-install-directory\lib\tools.jar

• JavaScript or scripting support must be enabled in your browser, so that Enterprise Server Administration is usable. Also, active content must be allowed and not blocked.