Originally posted by: dukessd
As a third party (non-IBM) application you would need to ask the vendor (Micro Focus) rather than IBM.
I think it is rather a case of Micro Focus COBOL supporting AIX as an operating system, because IBM would not support a third party application.
A quick google for:
Micro Focus COBOL AIX
suggests you can indeed run, even a 64bit version of, Micro Focus COBOL on AIX version 5.
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