System Requirements

• 2.6 System Requirements
• 2.5.1 System Requirement

 

Supported operating systems:

• Windows and AIX are currently

Client support:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.1 (Windows)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 (Windows)
• Mozilla 1.3

Server software requirements
(Customer's servers must have these software prerequisites installed prior to installation of software).

IBM WebSphere Portal and LDAP Server

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server with Service Pack 4
• Windows 2003 Standard Server
• IBM AIX V5.2 and AIX V5.2
• IBM WebSphere Portal Server Extend V5.1.0.1 with included WebSphere Application Server V5.1.1.4 and WBISF 5.1.1.2
• IBM DB2 UDB EE V8.2 with fixpack 3

LDAP servers

• Support all LDAP Servers supported by IBM WebSphere Portal Server Extend v5.1.0.1

Database Server

• Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
• Windows 2003 Server
• IBM AIX V5.2
• IBM DB2 Universal Database EE v8.2 with fix pack 3 or
• Oracle 9i Release 2 with Patch Set Version 9.2.0.4 for Windows and AIX

Content Management Server

• Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
• IBM AIX V5.2 and AIX V5.3 (need AIX v5.2 with LM4 to support Content Manager v8.3)
• IBM Content Manager V8.3
• IBM DB2 UDB EE V8.2 with fix pack 3
• IBM WebSphere App Server V5.1 with fix packs to V51.1.1 with included IBM HTTP Server 2.0.4.7.1 or 1.3.28 and IBM JVM V1.3.1
• License Use Management V6.4.4
• Microsoft Visual C++ V6 or V7 (Windows), Visual Age C++ V5 (AIX)

Workplace Forms

• IBM Workplace Forms Server 2.5 APIs (optionally required for Survey component)
• Workplace Forms Viewer V2.5 on all client machines accessing survey functionality (requires additional 200 MB of disk space)

Reporting Server

• DB2 Alphablox 8.2 with update for IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting or
• Crystal Enterprise 10 (For standard reports) with SP3 and monthly fix packs or other reporting engine software for customized reporting
  
  NOTE: Crystal Enterprise 10 requires IBM DB2 data store, it will not support the Oracle data store

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Hardware Server Requirements- Windows/Intel Platforms
IBM WebSphere Portal Server (refer to Portal 5.1x Information Center for more details of installation/configuration)

• CPU:Dual 2.4 GHz P4 Intel
• RAM:2 GB
• Disk:60 GB configured for RAID 1

IBM Content Manager Server (optional based on configuration)

• CPU:Dual 2.0 GHz P4
• RAM:2 GB
• Disk:2x18 GB configured for RAID 1 for OS and swap, 4x36 GB configured for RAID 1 for database and object storage

Reporting Server

• CPU: P3 1 GHz
• RAM: 512 MB
• Disk: 1 GB free

DB2 Server

• CPU: P3 1 GHz
• RAM: 512 MB
• Disk: 1 GB free

Hardware Server Requirements - AIX Platforms

IBM WebSphere Portal Server (refer to Portal 5.1x Information Center for more details of installation/configuration)
AIX systems
Refer to the following list for hardware requirements for AIX systems:

• Processor:
  • RS/6000 at 450MHz at a minimum; production environments should consider higher speeds.
  • Power4
  • Power5
• Physical memory: 1024 MB or more per processor
• Disk space: The following values are required if you use the installation program to install WebSphere Application Server, extensions and fixes, and WebSphere Portal (including Cloudscape). These values do account for any other products or components that could be installed on the WebSphere Portal machine. Refer to the documentation for the other products for additional hardware requirement information. You can perform a custom installation of the components. The following list shows the space requirements by component:

Rich Client Hardware Requirements

The minimum rich client processor and memory requirements are as follows:

• Intel Pentium 3 processor, 800 MHz
• 512 MB RAM

To reduce client startup time you can use an Intel Pentium 4 processor and increase the amount of memory to, for example, 1 GB. This increase in processor speed and memory do not provide significant performance gains after startup.

Disk space recommendations for the rich client are described in the following table.

Software Server Requirements

IBM WebSphere Portal and LDAP Server(refer to Portal 5.1x Information Center for more details of installation/configuration)

Supported operating systems (required on portal machine)
One of the following operating systems is required on the machine where WebSphere Portal will be installed:

• IBM WebSphere Portal Server Extend V5.1.0.1 with included WebSphere Application Server V5.1.1.4.
• IBM DB2 UDB EE V8.1 with Fixpack 5, client only
• WBCR supports all LDAP Servers supported by IBM Websphere Portal Server Extend V5.1.0.1.

Content Manager Server - (Optional Based on Configuration)

• Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
• IBM AIX V5.2
• IBM Content Manager V8.2 Fixpack 6 or Fixpack 7
• IBM DB2 Universal DataBase EE V8.1 with Fixpack 6a
• IBM WebSphere App Server V5.0 with Fixpacks to V5.0.2 with included IBM HTTP Server and IBM JVM V1.3.1
• License Use Management V6.4.4
• Microsoft Visual C++ V6 or V7 (Windows), Visual Age C++ V5 (AIX)

Reporting Server

• Crystal Enterprise 10
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server with Service Pack 4
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
• IBM AIX V5.2
• IBM HTTP Server
• IBM DB2 UDB EE V8.1 with Fixpack 6a, client only

DB2 Server

• Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
• IBM AIX V5.2
• IBM DB2 Universal Database EE V8.1 with Fixpack 6a

Client Requirements

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.1 (Windows)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 (Windows)
• Mozilla 1.7

Included Software
This product included limited use licenses of DB2, DB2 Content Manager, DB2 Alphablox and Websphere Portal Extend. Customers do not need to buy these products separately, but will need to purchase an upgrade license if they choose to use those products for anything other than IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting.

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