Software Requirements

Note: This product includes OpenSSL version 1.1.1k-mf6 (modified).

The setup file requires that the following software and libraries are installed before you start the installation, and that certain environment variables are set.

Software required by the setup file
Libraries required by the setup file
Required environment variables
Requirements for running the product
License Manager requirements

Software required by the setup file

The "awk", "ed", "ps", "sed", tar", "sed" and "which" "tar" utilities must be installed and added to the PATH.
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 Red Hat 8.1, pax is no longer installed by default. You must install the spax version found in the OS ISO. Use the yum install spax command.
If SELinux is installed and you plan to use anything other than core COBOL functionality, or plan to use Enterprise Server within an environment with ASLR enabled, the "SELINUX" configuration must be disabled. To do this, set SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config.

Libraries required by the setup file

Required libraries for Red Hat and SUSE Linux platforms - The installer checks that both the 32-bit and 64-bit libraries listed below are installed 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	Bitism		Platform
Library	32-bit	64-bit	s390	SUSE 12¹	SUSE 15¹	Red Hat 6.`x`	Red Hat 7	Red Hat 8	CentOS 7/8	Ubuntu 18/20
glibc²	X	X	X			X	X	X	X
libgcc	X	X	X			X	X	X	X
libstdc++	X	X	X			X	X	X	X
libgc1c2		X								X

Libraries marked with an 'X' are not included in the platform and need to be installed separately.
In addition to these, you also need to install the GCC and CPP libraries if you use COBOL Server to compile to .int code. These libraries are not required during the installation.
¹On SUSE 12 or 15, you can only install the 64-bit version of this product. The glibc-locale-32bit library is still required by the SafeNet Sentinel licensed components.
²On 64-bit Red Hat 7, you only need to install glibc-2.17*.x86_64 and glibc-2.17*.i686. Visit the Red Hat Web site for more information.

Required environment variables

Before you start the installation, you need to set the environment as follows:

You need to set the LANG environment variable to pick up localized messages. If you do not set it as specified here, the installation will run but you might experience unexpected behavior from the installer.
The LANG settings are English and Japanese only so set it to one of the following locales:
```
C, default, en_GB, en_GB.UTF-8, en_US, en_US.UTF-8
```
```
ja_JP, ja_JP.SJIS, ja_JP.UTF-8, ja_JP.eucJP, ja_JP.eucjp, ja_JP.sjis, ja_JP.ujis, ja_JP.utf8, japanese
```
You can set LANG before running the setup file as follows:
```
export LANG=C
```
Alternatively, add it to the start of the setup command line:
```
LANG=C ./setupfilename
```
See Using the LANG Environment Variable in the product Help for the development product for details.

Requirements for running the product

JavaScript or scripting support must be enabled in your browser, so that Enterprise Server Administration is usable. Also, active content must be allowed and not blocked.

License Manager requirements

For local servers, you do not need to install the Micro Focus License Administration tool separately, as the setup file installs a new Visual COBOL client and a new licensing server on the same machine.
If you have any network license servers, you must update them before you update the client machines.
If you are upgrading from Visual COBOL release 2.2 or earlier, uninstall the license manager before installing the product.

You can download the new version of the license server software by following these steps:

Log into the Software Licenses and Downloads (SLD) site at https://sld.microfocus.com/mysoftware/download/downloadCenter.
Select your account and click Downloads.
Select a product and a product version from your orders.
In the list of software downloads, locate the License Manager.
Click Download to download an archive with the installers.
Run the installer suitable for your Operating System to install License Manager on your machine.

HP-UX Java requirement:

The latest version of Micro Focus License Administration is provided on HP-UX without a Java JRE. Therefore, on HP-UX platforms, you now must install a Java JRE version 11 or above on your machine before installing 7.0 Patch Update 6 of this product. You need to ensure that the Java is available to the product installer when you run this as the root or superuser on the system. To do this, follow these steps to install this Patch Update on HP-UX:

Install a Java JRE version 11 or newer.
Set the JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables to the Java JRE location in order for the root user to be able to use it.
Run the Micro Focus Patch Update product installer.

The installer installs the AutoPass licensing .tar file over the top of any AutoPass license files that are already on the machine, so any existing licenses and configuration settings are preserved. The installation process removes any previously installed JRE. The Java 11 JRE is required for starting the AutoPass daemon and for using the CES admin tool found in the SafeNet installation.