Software Requirements

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

• 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.

• 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 - the 32-bit libraries listed below are required 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	Platform
  	SUSE 11	Red Hat 6.x	Red Hat 7
  glibc-locale-32bit	X
  glibc-*.x86_64		X	X
  glibc-*.i686		X	X
  libgcc-*.x86_64		X	X
  libgcc-*.i686		X	X
  libstdc++-*.x86_64		X	X
  glibc-*.s390		X	X
  glibc-*.s390x		X	X
  glibc-devel-*.x86_64		X	X
  glibc-devel-*.i686		X	X
  glibc-devel-*.s390		X	X
  glibc-devel-*.s390x		X	X
  libstdc++-*.i686		X	X
  gdb*	X	X	X

• Visit the Red Hat Web site for more information.

• 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.

To execute COBOL JVM 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 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.