Containers (Known Issues)

You should be aware of the following limitations when using Visual COBOL with containers:

General

  • Java is supported from version 17 onwards.
  • It is not possible to containerize COBOL applications using lightweight operating systems such as CoreOS Container Linux, SUSE MicroOS and Alpine Linux.
  • It is not possible to run COBOL applications in containers on Linux on PowerPC or S/390 chipsets.

Operating Systems

Visual COBOL is supported for use with Docker on the following Intel 64-bit operating systems:

  • Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 (and subsequent 8.x versions)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 or later
  • Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 (including support for development containers)

Visual COBOL is supported for use with OCI-compliant container tools (such as podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc) on the following operating systems:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 or later
  • Rocky Linux 9