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Rational Business Developer


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System requirements

The following are basic hardware and software requirements for IBM Rational Business Developer v7.1.

 
Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
Red Hat Linux Desktop 4 Update 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional SP2Rational Business Developer generates COBOL code that can be deployed to the following environments:

z/OS V1.6, or later:

CICS Transaction Server for z/OS version 2.3 or later. For EGL services support, version 3.1 or later is required.

IMS Transaction Manager version 8 or later

iSeries V5.R3. V5.R4, V6.R1

Note: Generated COBOL programs deployed to System z require the IBM Rational COBOL Runtime for zSeries V6.0.1 product

IBM Rational Business Developer generates Java code that can be deployed to the following environments:

z/OS V1.6, or later: Web applications require WebSphere Application Server for z/OS 5.1.2, or later.

iSeries V5.R3 or later: Web applications require WebSphere Application Server 5.1.2, or later, Apache Tomcat 5.5, or later, or the i5/OS Integrated Application Server.

AIX V5.2: Web applications require WebSphere Application Server V5.1.2, or later or Apache Tomcat 5.5, or later.

Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista: Web applications require WebSphere Application Server V5.1.2, or later or Apache Tomcat 5.5, or later.

Linux (RedHat 3, or higher, Suse 9) : Web applications require WebSphere Application Server V5.1.2, or later or Apache Tomcat 5.5, or later.

HP UNIX 11iv2: Web applications require WebSphere Application Server v5.1.2 or later or Apache Tomcat 5.5, or later.

Solaris 9, or later: Web applications require WebSphere Application Server v5.1.2, or later or Apache Tomcat 5.5, or later.

Portlet applications require WebSphere Portal Server V6.0.

Supported databases:

IBM DB2 V7, and later

IDS 7.3, and later

Oracle 8, and later

SQL Server 2000

Derby 10

IMS Database Manager V8 or later

Note: The VisualAge Generator migration tool -- Requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP
For Linux: An additional 500 MB of disk space is required in the /tmp directory.

Processor: Minimum 800 MHz Pentium III (or higher for best results)

Memory: Minimum 1 GB RAM, 2 GB works well

Disk space: Minimum 3 GB of disk space is required for product package installation. Additional disk space is required for the resources that you develop.

Note. 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.

For Windows: Additional disk space is required if you use FAT32 instead of NTFS.

For Windows: An additional 500 MB of disk space is required in the directory pointed to by your environment variable TEMP.

Display: 1024 x 768 display minimum using 256 colors (or higher for best results).

Other hardware: Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device.