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Rational Developer for System i


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System requirements



 
Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
Windows 2000 SP4, Windows 2003 Enterprise SP1, Windows 2003 Standard SP1, Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimatei5/OS V5R3, V5R4, or V6R1

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

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

- Creating a connection to your i5/OS server by expanding New Connection > i5/OS. 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.

- Compiling RPG, COBOL, C, C++, CL, or DDS on the System i using the Remote System Explorer (RSE), the compilers must be installed on the i5/OS.

Operating systems, supported in 32-bit mode, that support all of the languages are supported by IBM Rational Developer for System i:

Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 or later

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 4

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1

Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows Vista Ultimate

IBM Rational Developer for System i is developed for use with Eclipe IDE V3.2.2. You can only extend an existing Eclipse IDE of V3.2.2 with latest updates from the open source community.

Extension of an existing Eclipse IDE. A JRE is required from the following Java development kits:

- IBM 32-bit SDK for Windows Java 2 Technology Edition, Version 5.0 service release 4; Sun Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 Update 12 for Microsoft Windows Sun Java 2 Standard Edition (Java SE) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6.0 is not supported.

- Installation of updates: You might need to update your Eclipse version in order to install updates. Refer to the update's release documentation for information on changes to the prerequisite Eclipse version.

Eligibility requirements: To enable users who do not have administrator privileges to work with IBM Rational Developer for System i on a Windows Vista system, do not install Eclipse inside the Program Files directory (C:\Program Files\).

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 6.0 with Service Pack 1, or later

Mozilla 1.6, or later

Firefox 1.0.x, 1.5, 2.0, or later

The launchpad that does not support Mozilla 1.6. If your browser is Mozilla, you need V1.7, or later, to run the launchpad.

Viewing multimedia user assistance, such as tours, tutorials, and demonstration viewlets. You must properly install Adobe Flash Player, Version 6.0 release 65, or later

NOTES:

- On the Windows Vista operation system, the Samples Gallery and Tutorials Gallery do not support the new high resolution display setting "Larger scale (120DPI) - make text more readable". The gallery content does not display if this option is set. If you changed to the new high resolution display option, you must change in to a lower resolution setting, for example, the default 90 DPI setting.

The Program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the Program, if available, such as a read-me 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.
Intel(R) Pentium(R) III 800 MHz processor minimum (higher is recommended) 512 MB RAM; 1 GB RAM recommended

Minimum: 800 MB 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.

- 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.

1024 x 768 resolution minimum using 256 colors (or higher for best results)

Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device

CD-ROM drive