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Hardware considerations
Software requirements
IBM Tivoli License Manager
Supported character sets
Hardware considerations
The following are minimum requirements; actual hardware capacity for acceptable performance depends upon many factors, including but not limited to:
- data volume
- service level agreement
- access to non-relational data
- the number of open dialogs
- the number of database tables that are active
- memory demands from other active applications and services
Optim workstation
- Intel (for example, Intel Pentium i5, i7)
- 1 – 2 Cores
- 1.7 GHz minimum or faster
- 2 GB RAM
- 1 GB disk for Optim Software installation
- 10BaseT or 100BaseT network connection
Optim server
Note that sizing for the Optim server depends upon a number of factors and plans should be reviewed by an Optim specialist prior to deployment.
Note that as of v9.1.0.6 (9.1.0 Fix Pack 6), support for HP-UX Itanium and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 has been discontinued.
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HP-UX or HP-Itanium
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Linux
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Microsoft Windows
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Solaris
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IBM POWER5, 2.0 GHz, or POWER6, 3.0 GHz
Recommended: IBM POWER 7, 3.5 GHz or IBM Blade
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PA-RISC or HP BladeSystem (Dual or Quad Core)
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Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron
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Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron
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Sun SPARC Enterprise or newer, or Sun Blade
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2 – 4 Cores or more depending on workload
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>2 – 4 Cores or more depending on workload
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>2 – 4 Cores or more depending on workload
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>2 – 4 Cores or more depending on workload
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>2 – 4 Cores or more depending on workload
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2.0 GHz
Recommended: Highest processor speed
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2.0 GHz
Recommended: Highest processor speed
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2.0 GHz
Recommended: Highest processor speed
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2.0 GHz
Recommended: Highest processor speed
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2.0 GHz
Recommended: Highest processor speed
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2 – 4 GB RAM per CPU Core
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2 – 4 GB RAM per CPU Core
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2 – 4 GB RAM per CPU Core
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2 – 4 GB RAM per CPU Core
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2 – 4 GB RAM per CPU Core
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1 GB disk for Optim software installation
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1 GB disk for Optim software installation
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1 GB disk for Optim software installation
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1 GB disk for Optim software installation
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1 GB disk for Optim software installation
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One 100 Mbit Network Interface Card (NIC). Recommended: 1 GBPS with TCP/IP connectivity networked on an enterprise class network, such as LAN operating at 1000 MBPS.
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One 100 Mbit Network Interface Card (NIC). Recommended: 1 GBPS with TCP/IP connectivity networked on an enterprise class network, such as LAN operating at 1000 MBPS.
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One 100 Mbit Network Interface Card (NIC). Recommended: 1 GBPS with TCP/IP connectivity networked on an enterprise class network, such as LAN operating at 1000 MBPS.
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One 100 Mbit Network Interface Card (NIC). Recommended: 1 GBPS with TCP/IP connectivity networked on an enterprise class network, such as LAN operating at 1000 MBPS.
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One 100 Mbit Network Interface Card (NIC). Recommended: 1 GBPS with TCP/IP connectivity networked on an enterprise class network, such as LAN operating at 1000 MBPS.
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Minimum one Dual Port Fibre Channel Card, 4 Gb or 8 Gb for SAN
| Minimum one Dual Port Fibre Channel Card, 4 Gb or 8 Gb for SAN
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Minimum one Dual Port Fibre Channel Card, 4 Gb or 8 Gb for SAN
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Minimum one Dual Port Fibre Channel Card, 4 Gb or 8 Gb for SAN
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Minimum one Dual Port Fibre Channel Card, 4 Gb or 8 Gb for SAN
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Software requirements
Platform considerations
Open data manager
To install the Optim server or workstation on the database server, client software for the database management system is required. Optim is a 32-bit application, and requires 32-bit DBMS clients. Optim must be installed on a 32-bit platform or on a 64-bit platform that supports 32-bit applications.
Platform considerations
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Server
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Workstation
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Comments
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AIX v5.3
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Yes
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No
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AIX v6.1
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Yes
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No
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AIX v7.1
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Yes
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No
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HP-UX 11i v2
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Yes
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No
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Open Data Manager is not supported on this platform in conjunction with the end of service life for PA-RISC. After v9.1 of the Optim solutions, HP-UX is not supported.
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HP-UX 11i v3
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Yes
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No
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Open Data Manager is not supported on this platform in conjunction with the end of service life for PA-RISC. After v9.1 of the Optim solutions, HP-UX is not supported.
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HP-UX 11i v2 on Itanium
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Yes
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No
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Supported for DB2® for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and Oracle databases. As of v9.1.0.6 (Fix Pack 6) HP-UX Itanium is not supported. After v9.1 of the Optim solutions, HP-UX is not supported.
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HP-UX 11i v3 on Itanium
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Yes
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No
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Supported for DB2® for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and Oracle databases. As of v9.1.0.6 (Fix Pack 6) HP-UX Itanium is not supported. After v9.1 of the Optim solutions, HP-UX is not supported.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
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Yes
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No
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is not supported as of v9.1.0.6 (Fix Pack 6) of the Optim solutions, in conjunction with the end of service life.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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Yes
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No
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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Yes
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No
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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Yes
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No
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
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Yes
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No
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Open Data Manager is not supported on this platform.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
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Yes
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No
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Open Data Manager is not supported on this platform.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
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Yes
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No
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Open Data Manager is not supported on this platform.
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Solaris 9
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Yes
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No
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Solaris 10
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Yes
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No
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Windows XP Professional
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Yes
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Yes
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The workstation and connecting servers must use the same version of Optim software.
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Windows Server 2003
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Yes
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Yes
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The workstation and connecting servers must use the same version of Optim software.
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Windows 2003 R2
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Yes
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Yes
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The workstation and connecting servers must use the same version of Optim software.
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Windows Vista
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Yes
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Yes
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- Features in Windows Kernel Version 6.0 (Windows Vista) restrict the installation of Optim so that it must be installed under full Windows Administrator authority. See
special installation instructions for these platforms.
- The workstation and connecting servers must use the same version of Optim software.
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Windows 7
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Yes
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Yes
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- Features in Windows Kernel Version 6.1 (Windows 7) restrict the installation of Optim so that it must be installed under full Windows Administrator authority. See
special installation instructions for these platforms.
- The workstation and connecting servers must use the same version of Optim software.
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Windows Server 2008
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Yes
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Yes
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- Features in Windows Kernel Version 6.0 (Windows 2008) restrict the installation of Optim so that it must be installed under full Windows Administrator authority. See
special installation instructions for these platforms.
- The workstation and connecting servers must use the same version of Optim software.
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Windows Server 2008 R2
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Yes
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Yes
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- Features in Windows Version 6.1 (Windows 2008 R2) restrict the installation of Optim so that it must be installed under full Windows Administrator authority. See
special installation instructions for these platforms.
- The workstation and connecting servers must use the same version of Optim software.
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Open data manager
Note: If using Oracle heterogeneous services with open data manager to federate archived data with data in your database, only one LOB per table can be federated. This is because Oracle maps SQL_LONGVARBINARY as LONG when using heterogeneous services and LONG data types have known restrictions, including a limit of one LONG per table.
An uncompress utility is a prerequisite to the installation of Open Data Manager on most platforms. Where required, the utility is in the /usr/bin directory in the following packages.
When Open Data Manager is installed on Windows, it requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 as a prerequisite. This software can be obtained from Microsoft.
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Package
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Description
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AIX
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bos.rte.archive
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Base Operating System Runtime, Archive Commands
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HP-UX
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OS-Core.CMDS-MIN and PHCO_26898.CMDS-MIN
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Minimum HP-UX commands with Patch (11.11)
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Linux
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ncompress
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Fast compression and decompression utilities
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Solaris
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SUNWesu
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Extended System Utilities
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Windows
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not required
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IBM Tivoli License Manager
If you use IBM Tivoli License Manager, use the following manual process to activate it for data sources that do not reside on an Optim server or on a z/OS system:
- Locate the set of *.swtag files residing at:
Optim Root\properties\version\
- Copy the *.swtag files to:
\\server root\IBM\InfoSphere\Optim\ITLM
on the server hosting the data source.
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