Before you perform an installation, you must make sure that you have a user account with administrator privileges and that your system meets all system requirements. After you have finished installing the compiler, you must confirm that the installation was successful and enable the man pages of the compiler.
The complete procedure for installation is outlined in the following table.
| Task | For more information, see . . . |
|---|---|
| Become either the root user or a user with administrator privileges. | Documentation supplied with the operating system. |
| Ensure that all system prerequisites are met. | System prerequisites |
| Use SMIT or the installp command to install and configure the compiler. | Using SMIT or Using installp |
| Confirm that the compiler packages were successfully installed, and test the installation. | Checking compiler and fileset information, Testing the installation |
| Enable the compiler man pages. | Enabling the man pages |
| If your system locale or encoding, or both are not en_US, enable the compiler and runtime error messages. Otherwise, you can skip this step. | Enabling the COBOL for AIX error messages |