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Rational Developer for Power Systems Software

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Client system requirements

Operating system Software Hardware
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (32-bit)

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (32-bit or 64-bit)

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (32-bit or 64-bit)

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and Enterprise Edition

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate (32-bit or 64-bit)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 and 6 (32 bit x86 or 64 bit x86)

SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and 11 (32 bit x86)

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
(x86-32 and x86-64)
Note: 64-bit JVM is not supported for Ubuntu 10.04 x86-64.		 The IBM i Web Services and Java™ Tools feature of IBM® Rational® Developer for Power Systems Software™ requires additional software. These features depend on features that are provided in any of the following products:
  • Rational Application Developer for WebSphere® Software V8.5
  • Rational Business Developer, V8.5(see Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction)
  • Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software V8.5
  • Rational Team Concert (RTC) Client V4.0 for Rational Developer Power RTC extension

One of the following Web browsers to view the readme files and the installation guide, and to support the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) browser widget:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
  • Firefox 5.0, or later


Viewing multimedia user assistance, such as tours, tutorials, and demonstration viewlets requires Adobe Flash Player, Version 6.0 release 65, or later.		 Intel(R) 1GHz processor minimum (higher is recommended)

1 GB RAM; 2 GB RAM recommended

Minimum: 1 GB of disk space is required for product package installation. Additional disk space is required for the resources that you develop.
  • Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install.
  • Additional disk space is required if you download the product package to install this product.
  • An additional 500 MB of disk space is required in the directory pointed to by your environment variable TEMP.

1024 x 768 resolution minimum (or higher, for best results).

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Server system requirements

Operating system Software Hardware
AIX® V5.3 TL 7, or higher
AIX V6.1
AIX V7.1		 Supported compilers:
  • IBM XL C for AIX, versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.1, or 11.1
  • IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.1, or 11.1
  • IBM COBOL for AIX, versions 3.1 or 4.1
IBM i 5.4
IBM i 6.1
IBM i 7.1		 Supported compilers:

  • WebSphere Development Studio for System i V5R4 (5722-WDS)

  • WebSphere Development Studio for System i 6.1 (5761-WDS)

  • Rational Development Studio for i 7.1 (5770-WDS)



Option 60 of WebSphere Development Studio / Rational Development Studio is required for debugging applications using the integrated i debugger.

Program temporary fixes (PTFs) information - Some components need additional PTFs that are available at:

http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Rational/Rational_Developer_for_Power_Systems_Software/


More information about any required IBM i server PTFs - Can be found by:

  • Opening the Remote System Explorer perspective if it is not already open. The name of the current perspective is shown in the top left corner of the title bar for the Window. To open the Remote Systems Explorer perspective select Window > Open Perspective > Other and select Remote System Explorer from the list.

  • Creating a connection to your IBM i by expanding New Connection and double-clicking on IBM i.

  • Expanding your new connection and right click on Objects.

  • Selecting Verify Connection from the menu. This displays a dialog that shows which required PTFs are already installed on the system and which ones are missing.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Update 5 (RHEL 5.5) or higher for IBM POWER®

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (RHEL 6) for IBM POWER®

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 3 (SLES 10 SP3), or higher for IBM POWER

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 (SLES 11 SP1) or higher for IBM POWER		 Supported compilers:

  • IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, versions 10.1 or 11.1

  • GNU C/C++ compiler, version 4.3 or higher

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Hosted development environments

Product Version
Citrix Presentation Server 4.5
Presentation Server 4

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