Supported Operating Systems and Third-party Software

Lists operating systems supported and tested with the 5.0 release of Micro Focus software products, and third-party software supported by major features within those Micro Focus products.
Attention: This topic provides a summary of operating systems and third-party software supported across the Micro Focus Visual COBOL / Enterprise Developer suite of products. Not all software and/or software versions listed here are supported by every product in the suite. See the Additional Software Requirements topic for details pertaining to this product.

Windows Operating Systems

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All supported Windows operating system versions have been tested with the 5.0 release of each Micro Focus product. Each listed Windows operating system version and its subsequent updates are supported.

Operating System Base
Windows 7
Windows 8.1
Windows 10
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019

Linux/UNIX Operating Systems

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Micro Focus has tested the operating system base versions with the 5.0 release of each Micro Focus product. Each given operating system base release is supported along with any subsequent minor releases provided by the vendor.

Operating System Base Processor
AIX 7.1.x (where x >=4)1 IBM Power System2
AIX 7.2 1 IBM Power System2
CentOS 7 1 Intel x86-64
CentOS 8 Intel x86-64
HP - UX 11.31 1 Itanium
Oracle Linux - Red Hat Compatible Kernel 6 1 Intel x86-64
Oracle Linux - Red Hat Compatible Kernel 7 1 Intel x86-64
Oracle Linux - Red Hat Compatible Kernel 8 1 Intel x86-64
Oracle Linux - Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 1 Intel x86-64
Oracle Linux - Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 7 1 Intel x86-64
Oracle Linux - Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 1 Intel x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Intel x86-64 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 IBM Z System1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 IBM Power System 1,2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Intel x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 IBM Z System1
Oracle Solaris 11 1 Intel x86-64
Oracle Solaris 11 1 SPARC
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 IBM Power System 1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 IBM Power System 1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Intel x64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Intel x64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 IBM Z System 1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 IBM Z System 1
1 Not supported by Eclipse.

2 64-bit-only

environments

IBM Mainframe Operating Systems

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Operating System
z/OS 2.3
z/OS 2.4

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
Eclipse v4.7
Eclipse v4.8
Microsoft VS Code v1.x

.NET Core

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.NET Core 2.1
.NET Core 3.1

Java JDK

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IBM JDK 1.7
IBM JDK 1.8
Oracle JDK 1.7 / 7
Oracle JDK 1.8 / 8
AdoptOpenJDK 8

Java Application Servers

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Attention: This list represents the Java Application Servers and versions supported across Micro Focus software products, and does not provide details with regard to this specific product or its features. For this information, see the Additional Software Requirements topic.
Apache Tomcat 9.0
IBM WebSphere 8.5.5
IBM WebSphere 9.0
IBM WebSphere Liberty 19.0.0.01
JBoss EAP 7.1
Oracle WebLogic 12.2.1
1 Websphere Liberty is made available as a single stream continuous delivery software lifecycle. Micro Focus does not test all updates to Liberty but does periodically test the latest release of WebSphere Liberty against the latest available Micro Focus product release.

Micro Focus makes reasonable efforts to resolve product issues against supported releases of Liberty and in accordance with the Micro Focus product lifecycle policy. Micro Focus might require you to update to a newer release of Liberty to remedy a Support case.

Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs)

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All RDBMS testing is done on both 32- and 64-bit platforms based on RDBMS client software availability.

Attention: This list represents RDBMSs and versions supported across Micro Focus software products, and does not provide details with regard to this specific product or its features. For this information, see the Additional Software Requirements topic.
Oracle 12.2, 12.2.0.1
Oracle 18c (12.2.0.2)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2014
Microsoft SQL Server 2016
Microsoft SQL Server 2017
IBM DB2 LUW 10.5
IBM DB2 LUW 11.1
EDB PostgreSQL 10.x
GDG PostgreSQL 10.x
MySQL 5.7

Database Client Software

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Attention: This list represents database client software supported across Micro Focus software products, and in some cases, the components that use them. It does not provide details with regard to this specific product or its components. For this information, see the Additional Software Requirements topic.
Client Release Micro Focus Component(s)
.NET Core database providers Consult the RDBMS documentation specific to your installed RDBMS to determine which version(s) of .NET Core are compatible. OpenESQL
ADO.NET Consult the RDBMS documentation specific to your installed RDBMS to determine which version(s) of ADO.NET are compatible. OpenESQL

HCOSS

IBM Data Server Runtime Client, which includes Database Connectors, CLI, Database Connectors, and ADO.NET Consult the IBM documentation specific to your installed RDBMS to determine which version(s) of IBM Data Server Runtime Client are compatible. OpenESQL

DB2

DB2 for HCO

IBM Data Server Client Consult the IBM documentation specific to your installed RDBMS to determine which version(s) of IBM Data Server Client are compatible. OpenESQL

DB2 ECM

Oracle Client and Oracle Instant Client with Pro*COBOL Consult the Oracle documentation specific to your installed RDBMS to determine which version(s) of Oracle Client or Oracle Instant Client are compatible. OpenESQL

COBSQL

IBM Informix ESQL/COBOL 1 7.3 or later  
Database Connectors Drivers Consult the RDBMS documentation specific to your installed RDBMS to determine which version(s) of Database Connectors Drivers are compatible. OpenESQL
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2 Consult the SQL Server documentation specific to your installed RDBMS to determine which version(s) of Database Connectors Drivers are compatible. HCOSS
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Consult the SQL Server documentation specific to your installed RDBMS to determine which version(s) of Database Connectors Drivers are compatible. HCOSS
Database Connectors Drivers ODBC 3.0-compliant drivers  
Sybase Open Client Embedded SQL/COBOL 1 11.1 or later  
1 Not tested.

Middleware

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IBM WebSphere MQ 9.0
IBM TXSeries for Multiplatforms 1
Oracle Tuxedo and Tuxedo ART 2
1 See the IBM Web site for a list of supported versions.

2 See the Oracle Web site for a list of supported versions.