The setup file will check your machine for whether the prerequisite software is installed and will install any missing prerequisites and the product components.
Eclipse requirements
- Though
Visual COBOL does not support the 64-bit Eclipse, you can use the 32-bit Eclipse to create both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
- Visual COBOL requires a 32-bit Java installation.
- Visual COBOL ships with Eclipse 4.4.2. After the installation, you can install the
Visual COBOL plug-in into other instances of Eclipse available on the same machine. The supported versions are 4.2 and 4.3 for the 32-bit Eclipse only. See
Installing
Visual COBOL into other instances of Eclipse for instructions.
Other software requirements
- Oracle's Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 7 or Java 8 is required
to run the Eclipse IDE,
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: If you have Java 7 installed on your machine and you do not want the setup file to install Java 8, you can install the product silently and use the
skipjre=1 command line option to skip installing Java 8. See
Installing Silently
for more details.
- The setup file also installs .NET Framework v4.5.2 and the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 and 2012 Redistributables.
See the
Java Support Considerations for the Eclipse IDE in the
Known Issues and Restrictions section in your product help for considerations that apply to using the Eclipse IDE and Java.
Important: This release requires version 10000.2.990 or later of the
Micro Focus License Administration tool. For local servers, you do not need to install it separately, as the setup file installs a new
Visual COBOL client and a new licensing server on the same machine.
If you have a network server, you must update the license server before installing the product as the client is not able to communicate with license servers of versions older than 10000.2.660. On Windows, you can check the version of your license server by clicking
Help > About in the
Micro Focus License Administration tool. To check the version of the license server on UNIX, run
/var/microfocuslicensing/bin/mfcesver or
/var/microfocuslicensing/bin/cesadmintool.sh.
You can download the new version of the license server software from the
Micro Focus SupportLine Web site:
http://supportline.microfocus.com.
