WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets

Software requirements for WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets Feed Handlers (including embedded Feed Handlers), Feed Handler Runtime, Consolidated OrderBook, Desktop Applications which include Administrative Desktop (ITAD), Permission Manager (ITPM), and Market Data Viewer (MDV), and Platform Services production systems

One of the following operating system platforms:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64) or 6 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64) or MRG on x86-64^1,2,3,4,5
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 or 11 (x86 or x86-64) or SLERT 10 on x86-64 ^{1, 2, 3}
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64) ^{1, 2, 4, 6}
• Sun Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC 32-bit or 64-bit) ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
• ¹ Except Bloomberg B-Pipe Feed Handler is only supported on Linux x86-64
• ² Except the Bovespa MMTP Feed Handler is only supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2008 R2 on x86, and SGX Securities Market Direct Feed is only supported on Linux x86 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2008 R2 on x86
• ³ Except Desktop Applications which include ITAD, ITPM, and MDV are not supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, Linux on System p, 32-bit or 64-bit Solaris, or the Linux real-time kernels
• ⁴ Except Bloomberg BPoD Feed Handler is not supported on Linux on IBM System p, 64-bit Solaris, or Windows on x86-64
• ⁵ Except ITPS is not supported on Linux on IBM System p or 32-bit or 64-bit Solaris using MySQL
• ⁶ Except the Permission Service (ITPS) using MySQL and Desktop Applications which include ITAD, ITPM, and MDV are not supported on Windows on x86-64

For the data store supported by the Permission Service, one of the following:

• IBM DB2 Workgroup 9.5
• IBM DB2 Workgroup 9.7
• MySQL 5.1.51 server with MySQL Connector/J 5.1.12

• For C++ client APIs, which are ITCL, IMDA (including SIMDA), Subscriber, Contributor, and Callout, one of the following operating system platforms:
• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows 7 (x86 or x86-64⁷)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64)
• Red HatEnterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64) or 6 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64) or MRG on x86-64
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 or 11 Server or Client (x86 or x86-64) or SLERT 10 on x86-64
• Sun Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC 32-bit or 64-bit, or x86 or x86-64 (8))
• IBM AIX V6.1 (9)
⁷ Except Callout API is not supported on Windows XP or Windows 7
⁸ Except only SIMDA is supported on Solaris on x86 or x86-64
⁹ Except Subscriber, Contributor, and Callout APIs are not supported on AIX

• For the .NET client IMDA API: Microsoft Windows XP SP2 (x86 or x86-64), Microsoft Windows 7 (x86 or x86-64), Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64) with .NET runtime 3.0 or higher
• For the Java client IMDA (including SIMDA) API, one of the following operating system platforms:
• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows 7 (x86 or x86-64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64) or 6 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64) or MRG on x86-64
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 or 11 Server or Client (x86 or x86-64) or SLERT 10 on x86-64
• Sun Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC 32-bit or 64-bit)


• IBM AIX V6.1 (SIMDA only)

Plus, for Java clients, either the Java Runtime Environment included with the product (IBM) or J2SE 5.0 or higher.

• For Excel Add-In, one of the following versions of Excel:
• Microsoft Excel 2003
• Microsoft Excel 2007

Running on one of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows 7 (x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (x86)

Software requirements for WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets development systems

These systems are required for developing client applications, callout libraries, custom services, or custom feed handlers. These systems are not required for running WebSphere Front Office.

One of the following operating system platforms:

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64) or 6 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64) or MRG on x86-64
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 or 11 Server or Client (x86 or x86-64)
• Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC 32-bit or 64-bit)
• IBM AIX V6.1 (10)
• ¹⁰ Except only C++ IMDA, C++ and Java SIMDA client application development are supported on AIX

For C++ client applications:

• Native compiler: Linux GCC 4.1 compiler (for Linux platform)
• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 SR1 Professional (for Windows platform)
• Sun Studio 11 (for Solaris platform)
• IBM XL C/C++ for AIX V10.1

For Java client applications: IBM Rational Software Architect recommended for development, Java 5 SDK or higher is required.

For .NET client applications: Microsoft .NET 3.0 (latest update)

The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a README file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter. Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language.

Feed Handler, Feed Handler Runtime, Consolidated Order Book, and Platform Services Production systems:

Minimum requirements are listed. The actual requirements for your system may be greater depending on the complexity of your specific environment, latency, throughput, and data requirements.

Additional hardware that may be required based on capacity requirements:

• CPUs (processors or multicore processors)
• Memory
• Disks
• Network adapters (for added capacity or redundancy)
• Servers (for added capacity or redundancy)

Hardware requirements for WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets production systems

Feed Handler, Feed Handler Runtime, Consolidated OrderBook, and Platform Services products:

• Processor: AMD or Intel x86 architecture 32-bit or 64-bit, POWER, or Sun UltraSPARC, containing two processors or cores of at least 2.5 GHz
• Minimum memory requirements: 3 GB ¹¹
• Minimum disk space requirements: 2 x 36 GB


• Dual 1 Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters ¹²

¹¹ On Solaris only, feed handlers for SIAC CTA and LSE Infolect require a minimum of 8 GB memory, and all other feed handlers require a minimum of 4 GB memory.

¹² Most production feed handler environments require dual 1 Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters for the redundant flow of incoming data. A 1 Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter or InfiniBand adapter is required for outgoing data. InfiniBand transport only available when using the embedded WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging transport, on a supported Linux operating system with hardware supporting the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) version 1.3 (or higher). Native InfiniBand and IP over InfiniBand are supported.

Hardware requirements for client access to WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets

Authorized User and Application Connection packages:

• Processor: AMD or Intel x86 architecture 32-bit or 64-bit, POWER, or Sun UltraSPARC
• One processor with a minimum processor speed of 2.0 GHz (dual processor or dual core recommended)
• Minimum memory requirements: 1 GB
• Minimum disk space requirements: 18 GB


• 1 Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter or InfiniBand adapter

InfiniBand transport only available when using the embedded WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging transport, on a supported Linux operating system with hardware supporting OFED version 1.3 (or higher).

Hardware requirements for WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets development systems

The minimum hardware requirements for development systems are the same as for production systems.


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Performance considerations:

WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets is a scalable product. Performance depends on the complexity of the specific environment, volume of data traffic, and the data object size.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86 or x86-64) ^1,2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64) or MRG on x86-64 ^1,2,3,4,5
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 or 11 (x86 or x86-64) or SLERT 10 on x86-64 ^1,2,3
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64) ^1,2,4,6
• Sun Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC 32- or 64-bit) ^1,2,3,4,5

For the data store supported by the Permission Service, one of the following:

• IBM DB2® Workgroup 9.5
• IBM DB2 Workgroup 9.7
• MySQL 5.1.51 server with MySQL Connector/J 5.1.12

• For C++ client APIs, which are ITCL, IMDA (including SIMDA), Subscriber, Contributor, and Callout, one of the following operating system platforms:
  
  
  • Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows 7 (x86 or x86-64 ⁷)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86 or x86-64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64) or MRG on x86-64
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 or 11 Server or Client (x86 or x86-64) or SLERT 10 on x86-64
  • Sun Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC 32- or 64-bit)
  • IBM AIX V6.1 ⁸

• For the .NET client IMDA API: Microsoft Windows XP SP2 (x86 or x86-64), Microsoft Windows 7 (x86 or x86-64), Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64) with .NET runtime 3.0 or higher

• For the Java client IMDA (including SIMDA) API, one of the following operating system platforms:
  • Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows 7 (x86 or x86-64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86 or x86-64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64) or MRG on x86-64
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 or 11 Server or Client (x86 or x86-64) or SLERT 10 on x86-64
  • Sun Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC 32- or 64-bit)
  • IBM AIX V6.1 (SIMDA only)

• For Excel Add-In, one of the following versions of Excel:
  • Microsoft Excel 2003
  • Microsoft Excel 2007

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows 7 (x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (x86)

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86 or x86-64)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 or 11 Server or Client (x86 or x86-64)
• Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC 32- or 64-bit)
• IBM AIX V6.1 ⁹

• Native compiler: Linux GCC 4.1 compiler (for Linux platform)
• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 SR1 Professional (for Windows platform)
• Sun Studio 11 (for Solaris platform)
• IBM XL C/C++ for AIX V10.1

• Processor: AMD or Intel x86 architecture 32- or 64-bit, POWER®, or Sun UltraSPARC, containing two processors or cores of at least 2.5 GHz
• Minimum memory requirements: 3 GB *
• Minimum disk space requirements: 2 x 36 GB
• Dual 1 Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters **

• Processor: AMD or Intel x86 architecture 32- or 64-bit, or Sun UltraSPARC, or POWER
• One processor with a minimum processor speed of 2.0 GHz (dual processor or dual core recommended)
• Minimum memory requirements: 1 GB
• Minimum disk space requirements: 18 GB
• 1 Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter or InfiniBand adapter

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86 or x86-64 ^1,2)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64 ^1,2,3,4,5)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 or 11 (x86 or x86-64 ^1,2)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64 ^1,2,6)
• Sun Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC 32- or 64-bit ^1,2,4,5,6,7)

• For C++ client APIs, which are ITCL, IMDA (including SIMDA), Subscriber, Contributor, and Callout, one of the following operating system platforms:
  • Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows 7 (x86 or x86-64 ⁸)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64 ⁹)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86 or x86-64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 or 11 Server or Client (x86 or x86-64)
  • Sun Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC 32- or 64-bit)
  • IBM AIX 6.1 ¹⁰

• For the .NET client IMDA API:
  • Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows 7 (x86 or x86-64) or
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64)

• For the Java client IMDA API, one of the following operating system platforms:
  • Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows 7 (x86 or x86-64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86 or x86-64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 or 11 Server or Client (x86 or x86-64)
  • Sun Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC)

• Microsoft Excel 2003
• Microsoft Excel 2007

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows 7 (x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 or 2008 R2 (x86)

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2003, 2008 or 2008 R2 (x86 or x86-64) ¹¹
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86 or x86-64)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 or 11 Server or Client (x86 or x86-64)
• Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC)
• IBM AIX 6.1^{11, 12}

• Native compiler: Linux GCC 4.1 compiler (for Linux platform)
• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 SR1 Professional (for Windows platform)
• Sun Studio 11 (for Solaris platform)
• IBM XL C/C++ for AIX v10.1

• Processor: AMD or Intel x86 architecture 32- or 64-bit, POWER®, or Sun UltraSPARC, containing two processors or cores of at least 2.5 GHz
• Minimum memory requirements: 3 GB *
• Minimum disk space requirements: 2 x 36 GB
• Dual 1 Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters **

• Processor: AMD or Intel x86 architecture 32- or 64-bit, or Sun UltraSPARC, or POWER
• One processor with a minimum processor speed of 2.0 GHz (dual processor or dual core recommended)
• Minimum memory requirements: 1 GB
• Minimum disk space requirements: 18 GB
• 1 Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter or InfiniBand adapter

• One of the following operating system platforms:



• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86 or x86-64 ^{1 2})



• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 or x86-64 or ppc64 ^{1 2 3})



• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 or 11 (x86 or x86-64 ^{1 2})



• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or 2008 (x86 ¹)



• Sun Solaris 10 (UltraSPARC 32- or 64-bit ^{1 2 4 5})