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 SUSE 11 and 12, you must have the following operating system libraries installed:

  Additional libraries for Visual COBOL for Eclipse

  Library	Platform
  	SUSE 11	SUSE 12
  glibc-locale-32bit
  gcc
  gtk2 (libgtk2, gtk2-tools-32-bit)
  libXcomposite1-32bit
  libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-32bit
  gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-32bit
  libjasper1-32bit
  gtk2-x11 (libgthread-2_0-0-32bit)
  libXtst6-32bit

  Additional libraries for Micro Focus Visual COBOL Development Hub

  Library	Platform
  	SUSE 11
  glibc-locale-32bit
  gcc (gcc-32-bit)

• On Red Hat 6.x and Red Hat 7, you must have the following operating system libraries installed:

  All Visual COBOL products

  • gcc*.i686
  • glibc-*.x86_64
  • glibc-*.i686
  • libgcc-*.x86_64
  • libgcc-*.i686
  • libstdc++-*.x86_64
  • libstdc++-*.i686

  Additional libraries for Visual COBOL for Eclipse

  Library	Platform
  	Red Hat 6.x	Red Hat 7
  gtk2-*.x86_64
  gtk2-*.i686
  gtk2-engines.*.i686		-
  gtk2-engines.*.s390		-
  gtk2-engines.*.x86_64
  libXtst-*.x86_64
  libXtst-*.i686
  libcanberra-gtk2-*.x86_64
  libcanberra-gtk2-*.i686
  libgnome.x86_64
  libgnome.i686
  PackageKit-gtk-module-*.x86_64
  PackageKit-gtk-module-*.i686		-
  PackageKit-gtk-module-*.s390		-
  PackageKit-gtk3-module-*.i686	-
  PackageKit-gtk3-module-*.s390	-
  webkitgtk.x86_64		-
  webkitgtk.i686		-
  webkitgtk3.x86_64	-
  webkitgtk3.i686	-
  xterm (any version)

  Additional libraries required to use the core_on_error runtime variable

  gdb - the gdb packages (for the GNU Project Debugger) can be installed from the install media for your OS.

  Additional libraries for Micro Focus Visual COBOL Development Hub

  • gcc*.i686
  • gcc*.s390
  • glibc-*.s390
  • glibc-*.s390x
  • glibc-devel-*.x86_64
  • glibc-devel-*.i686
  • glibc-devel-*.s390
  • glibc-devel-*.s390x

  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, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) Java 7 or Java 8 is required to execute COBOL JVM code and for native COBOL and Java interoperability. 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 JAVA_HOME environment variable. When installing the product, set this variable to a 32-bit Java installation or the installation terminates. For example, execute the following:

  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.