Additional Software Requirements for Visual COBOL Development Hub

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.

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.

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	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 11.2 (11gR2) 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 11.2, 12.1, and 12.2. Oracle 12.2 is available and tested on the following platforms:

• x86-64 running Red Hat Linux
• x86-64 running SuSE Linux
• x86-64 running Solaris
• SPARC running Solaris

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 9.7 or later
• IBM DB2 Connect Version 9.7 or later

Testing

For this version, DB2 ECM was tested with DB2 LUW 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1.

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 9.7 DB2 LUW 10.1 DB2 LUW 10.5 DB2 LUW 11.1	db2jcc4.jar (and db2jcc_license_cu.jar)
Oracle 11.2 Oracle 12.1	ojdbc6.zip1 ojdbc7.zip1
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Microsoft SQL Server 2016	sqljdbc4.jar
Postgre 9.6	postgresql-42.0.0.jre7.jar
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.

Testing

For this version, OpenESQL was tested with:

• Oracle 11.2 and 12.1
• DB2 LUW 9.7,10.1,10.5, and 11.1
• SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, and 2016
• PowerLinux LE using DB2 LUW 10.5 only
• EDB PostgreSQL 9.6 and MySQL 5.7 (5.3 ODBC drivers only) on the following platforms:
  • x86-64 running Red Hat Linux
  • x86-64 running SUSE Linux

Note: Micro Focus provides compatibility for PostgreSQL and MySQL but does not directly contribute to or support either open source project. Any issues relating to the functionality of either DBMS should be addressed through an open source support vendor.