System prerequisites

All system prerequisites must be present on your system before COBOL for AIX can be successfully installed and run.

Hardware requirements:

Software requirements: Required programs

COBOL for AIX, V4.1 and its generated object programs run on the following operating systems: AIX V5.3.9.0 or later, AIX V6.1.2.0 or later, or AIX V7.1.

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Software requirements: Optional programs

To use COBOL for AIX with optional programs such as online help, DB2® and CICS®, additional products are required:

Verifying the amount of hard disk space available

You can use the following command to determine the amount of space available in the installation location (/usr/lpp/cobol/):
df -m /usr

Verifying that the required filesets are installed

The following filesets must be installed on your system in order to install IBM® COBOL for AIX, V4.1:

Fileset name Fileset description

AIX 5.3: bos.rte.5.3.9.0 or later
AIX 6.1: bos.rte.6.1.2.0 or later
AIX 7.1: bos.rte.7.1.0.0

Base operating system run time

AIX 5.3: bos.rte.libc.5.3.9.0 or later
AIX 6.1: bos.rte.libc.6.1.2.0 or later
AIX 7.1: bos.rte.libc.7.1.0.0

Base application runtime library

At least one of the following locale-specific filesets must be installed on your system:

Fileset name Fileset description
bos.loc.LANG Base locale support
bos.loc.pc.LANG Base system locale PC code set
bos.loc.utf.LANG Base system locale UTF code set
bos.loc.iso.LANG Base system locale ISO code set

You can view information about the installed filesets by using the lslpp command.

Use the following command to determine if these filesets have been installed:

lslpp -L bos.loc.* bos.rte. bos.rte.libc