To ensure full functionality for some
Visual COBOL features, you might be required to obtain and install additional third-party software in addition to the prerequisite software installed automatically by the
Visual COBOL setup file. The following information specifies the third-party software required for each feature.
Application server support for JVM COBOL
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The following application servers are supported using the following JDKs:
| Application Servers
|
JDK version
|
Containers support version
|
| Tomcat 7.0.39
|
1.7
|
Servlets 2.5
|
| JBoss 7.1.1
|
1.7
|
Servlets 2.5
|
| WebLogic 12.1.1
|
1.7
|
Servlets 2.5
|
| WebSphere 8.5
|
1.7
|
Servlets 2.5
|
Note:
- On AIX and zLinux, you need to have IBM's JDK. The earliest supported release of IBM's JDK 1.7 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 JDL 1.7 is Java 7.0.11. You can get the HP-UX Java JDK from
HP's Web site.
- On all other platforms, you need Oracle's JDK. The earliest supported release of Oracle's JDK 1.7 is 1.7.027. You can download Oracle's JDK from
Oracle's Web site.
Application server JCA support for Enterprise Server
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Restriction: This feature applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.
Java EE 5 and Java EE 6 are supported for the deployment of EJBs generated using the Interface Mapping Toolkit, as follows:
- Java EE 5 includes support for EJB 3.0 and Java Connector Architecture 1.5
- Java EE 6 includes support for EJB 3.1 and Java Connector Architecture 1.6
The following Java application servers are supported using the following JDKs:
| Application Servers
|
JDK (vendor)
|
Java EE
|
| JBoss 5.1.0
|
1.5/1.6 (Oracle)
|
5
|
| JBoss 6.1.0
|
1.6 (Oracle)
|
6
|
| JBoss 7.1.1
|
1.6/1.7 (Oracle)
|
6
|
| JBoss EAP 6.4 (AS 7.5)
|
1.6/1.7 (Oracle)
|
6
|
| Oracle WebLogic 10.3.5
|
1.5 (Oracle)
|
5
|
| Oracle WebLogic 12.1.1
|
1.6/1.7 (Oracle)
|
6
|
| IBM WebSphere 7.0
|
1.5 (IBM)
|
5
|
| IBM WebSphere 8.0
|
1.6 (IBM)
|
6
|
| IBM WebSphere 8.5
|
1.6/1.7 (IBM)
|
6
|
| IBM WebSphere 8.5.5
|
1.7 (IBM)
|
6
|
The availability of COBOL resource adapters for these Application Servers differs between UNIX platforms. The following table indicates where support is available for each platform:
| Feature/Platform
|
JBoss 5.1.0
|
JBoss 6.1.0
|
JBoss 7.1.1
|
JBoss EAP 6.4
|
Websphere 7.0
|
WebSphere 8.0
|
WebSphere 8.5
|
WebSphere 8.5.5
|
WebLogic 10.3.5
|
WebLogic 12.1.1
|
| AIX 6.1 on RS6000
|
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
32-bit |
32-bit |
|
32-bit
|
32-bit |
|
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
| HP/UX 11.31 on Intel IA64
|
32- and 64-bit
|
32- and 64-bit
|
32- and 64-bit |
32- and 64-bit |
|
64-bit
|
64-bit |
|
32- and 64-bit
|
32- and 64-bit
|
| Red Hat EL 6.2 on IBM390
|
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
32-bit |
32-bit |
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
32-bit |
|
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
| Red Hat EL 5.5 on AMD Opteron
|
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
32-bit |
32-bit |
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
32-bit |
|
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
| Solaris 11 on AMD Opteron
|
32- and 64-bit
|
32- and 64-bit
|
32- and 64-bit |
32- and 64-bit |
|
|
|
|
32- and 64-bit
|
32- and 64-bit
|
| Solaris 10 on SPARC
|
32- and 64-bit
|
32- and 64-bit
|
32- and 64-bit |
32- and 64-bit |
|
|
|
|
32- and 64-bit
|
32- and 64-bit
|
| SUSE SLES 11 SP1 on IBM390
|
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
32-bit |
32-bit |
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
32-bit |
|
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
| SUSE SLES 11 on AMD Opteron
|
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
32-bit |
32-bit |
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
32-bit |
|
32-bit
|
32-bit
|
| SUSE SLES12 on PowerLinux LE
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
64-bit |
|
|
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.
Java Development Kit (JDK)
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Native COBOL and Java Interoperability - 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.
Database Access
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Before you can use
Visual COBOL to
develop and
deploy SQL applications that use
COBSQL,
DB2 ECM, or
OpenESQL,
ensure any third-party software prerequisites are installed and the environment is set properly.
Database Access - COBSQL (Pro*COBOL)
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Note: COBSQL (Pro*COBOL) is supported for native COBOL only.
- Availability
-
| Feature/Platform
|
32-bit
|
64-bit
|
| x86-64 running Red Hat Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| x86-64 running SuSE Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| IBM System p running AIX
|
X
|
X
|
| IBM System z running SuSE Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| Itanium running HP-UX
|
X
|
X
|
| x86-64 running Solaris
|
X
|
X
|
| SPARC running Solaris
|
X
|
X
|
- XA Switch Module
- When the Enterprise Server feature is enabled, 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 (http://metalink.oracle.com), document # 43208.1 provides details of all language compilers certified by Oracle for use with their precompilers.
- Preprocessors
- COBSQL supports the following database preprocessors:
- Sybase Open Client Embedded SQL/COBOL Version 11.1 or later
- Oracle Pro*COBOL Version 11.1 (11gR1) 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.
- Executing
- On HP-UX, to execute an application precompiled using Pro*COBOL (or COBSQL) after you have created a callable shared object of Oracle DBMS routines, you need set an environment variable, LD_PRELOAD, to point to the Oracle client callable shared object, for example:
LD_PRELOAD=$ORACLE_HOME/libdir/libclntsh.so
export LD_PRELOAD
where
libdir is:
- lib32 for 32-bit environments
- lib for 64-bit environments.
A script is available that creates an executable run-time system or a callable shared object containing Oracle support (applies to UNIX environments only). You can find the script in the Micro Focus Knowledge Base article titled
Building and executing Pro*COBOL applications on UNIX.
- Testing
- For this version, COBSQL was tested with Oracle 11.1, 11.2, and 12.1.
Database Access -
DB2 ECM
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Note: DB2 ECM is supported for native COBOL only.
- Availability
-
| Feature/Platform
|
32-bit
|
64-bit
|
| x86-64 running Red Hat Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| x86-64 running SuSE Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| IBM System p running AIX
|
X
|
X
|
| IBM System z running Red Hat Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| IBM System z running SuSE Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| Itanium running HP-UX
|
|
X
|
| x86-64 running Solaris
|
|
|
| SPARC running Solaris
|
X
|
X
|
- XA Switch Module
- When the Enterprise Server feature is enabled, 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
- DB2 ECM supports the following database preprocessors:
- IBM DB2 LUW Version 9.5 or later
- IBM DB2 Connect Version 9.5 or later
- Testing
- For this version,
DB2 ECM was tested with
DB2 LUW
9.5, 9.7, 10.1, and 10.5.
Database Access - OpenESQL
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- Availability
-
| Feature/Platform
|
Native and JVM Managed COBOL 32-bit
|
Native and JVM Managed COBOL 64-bit
|
| x86-64 running Red Hat Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| x86-64 running SuSE Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| x86-64 running Solaris
|
X
|
X
|
| IBM System p running AIX
|
X
|
X
|
| IBM System z running Red Hat Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| IBM System z running SuSE Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| Itanium running HP-UX
|
X
|
X
|
| SPARC running Solaris
|
X
|
X
|
| PowerLinux LE running SUSE Linux
|
|
X
|
| PowerLinux LE running Red Hat Linux
|
|
X
|
- XA Switch Module
- When the Enterprise Server feature is enabled, the
ODBC One-phase Commit switch module is provided and is available on the same platforms as are indicated in the
Availability section above.
For Windows environments, the SQL Server XA switch module is also provided.
- Native COBOL
-
- 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
- JVM Managed COBOL
- OpenESQL supports access to relational databases using JDBC 4.0-compliant JDBC drivers. The following table shows the tested DBMSs and their corresponding JDBC driver filenames:
| Tested DBMS Versions
|
JDBC 4.0 Compliant Drivers
|
| DB2 LUW 9.5
DB2 LUW 9.7
DB2 LUW 10.1
DB2 LUW 10.5
|
db2jcc4.jar (and
db2jcc_license_cu.jar)
|
| Oracle 11.1, 11.2
Oracle 12.1
|
ojdbc6.zip1
ojdbc7.zip1
|
| Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2014
|
sqljdbc4.jar
|
| PostgreSQL 9.4
|
|
|
1Some Oracle JDBC drivers are distributed as
.zip rather than
.jar files.
|
To use JDBC DataSource Objects, you must also install and configure a JNDI server.
- If you are using a Java application server, it includes a JNDI server you can use to configure DataSource objects. This process is described in the Java documentation for the application server.
- If you are not using a Java application server, or if you require a standalone JNDI server to configure DataSource objects for initial evaluation and development, see the
To install and configure Simple-JNDI topic in this documentation set for instructions on downloading, installing, and configuring the open source JNDI server Simple-JNDI for this purpose.
- PostgreSQL
- OpenESQL supports PostgreSQL versions 9.0 through 9.4 on the following UNIX platforms:
| Feature/Platform
|
Native
and JVM Managed
COBOL 32-bit
|
Native
and JVM Managed
COBOL 64-bit
|
| x86-64 running Red Hat Linux
|
X
|
X
|
| x86-64 running SuSE Linux
|
X
|
X
|
- Testing
- For this version, OpenESQL was tested with:
- Oracle 11.1, 11.2 and 12.1
- DB2 LUW 9.5, 9.7,10.1,10.5
- SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2014
- PowerLinux LE using DB2 LUW 10.5 only
- PostgreSQL 9.4 on the following platforms only:
- x86-64 running Red Hat Linux
- x86-64 running SUSE Linux
Note: Micro Focus provides compatibility for PostgreSQL but does not directly contribute to or support the PostgreSQL open source project. Any issues relating to PostgreSQL functionality should be addressed through an open source support vendor.
XML Extensions
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- XML Extensions has the same requirements as
Visual COBOL. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available. See the
XML Extensions for
Visual COBOL, available from the
Visual COBOL product documentation section of the
Micro Focus
SupportLine Web site for more details.
- Additionally, XML Extensions may be used in conjunction with Terminal Server.
