Detailed System Requirements for v9.1 of the IBM InfoSphere Optim solutions

Detailed System Requirements

Abstract

This document provides information about prerequisites for the IBM® InfoSphere® Optim™ solutions and their features.

Content

Supported data sources are described in the tabs on this page. Use the following links to view additional requirements for each product included in version 9.1 of IBM InfoSphere Optim solutions.

Optim directory support

For Optim 9.1 test data management solutions that use Optim designer and Optim manager, the Optim directory and the IBM InfoSphere Optim Connection Manager database must be Unicode and are supported on the following database management systems only. For the next major version, all Optim solutions support the Optim directory and the InfoSphere Optim Connection Manager database on these database management systems only. The Optim directory must use a different schema from the schema that is used by the InfoSphere Optim Connection Manager database.

In DB2, certain Optim directory tables require an 8K tablespace. The default size for DB2 is 4K. Ensure that the directory owner has authorization to an 8K tablespace or that a specific 8K tablespace is specified when installing or upgrading.

DB2® for Linux, UNIX, and Windows	Oracle	SQL Server
v9.5 (FP10 or later)	v11gR1 (11.1.0.7 or later)	2008 R1
v9.7	v11gR2 (11.2)	2008 R2
v10.1		2012

Supported data sources

The Optim solutions support data sources heterogeneously. That is, a solution can generally process a business object that consists of data from one or more data sources or extract data from one data source or DBMS and insert it in another. Select a tab for more information about supported data sources.

Tabs by data source

Teradata

Optim provides native access support for the following versions of Teradata.

Version	Support Level	Comments
2.6.2	Supported	Extended objects are not supported.
12	Supported	Extended objects are not supported.
13	Toleration	Extended objects are not supported.
13.10	Toleration	Extended objects are not supported.
14	Toleration	Extended objects are not supported.

Setup considerations for Teradata

The following Teradata client components must be installed on the Optim server and on the Optim workstation:

Shared ICU Libraries
Teradata GSS
CLIv2 interface
Teradata Pre-processor (PP2)

Optim supports the following minimum version levels of the Teradata Server software:

V2.6.2
V12.0.2.38
V12.0.3.1
V13.0.0.18
V13.0.1.1
V13.10.0.1

Teradata on AIX

To execute an Optim solution against a supported version of Teradata on AIX, a minimum client level of TTU version 13 must be installed on the Optim server. In addition, the following patch level is required:

For TTU 13.10:
- cliv21310 13.10.00.11 or above
- TPT version 13.10 with papida00 patch 13.10.00.06 or above

For TTU 14.0:
- TPT version 14 with tptbase patch 14.00.00.04 or above

Teradata on HP-UX, RHEL, or Solaris

To execute an Optim solution against a supported version of Teradata on HP-UX (Optim does not support Teradata on the HP-Itanium platform), RHEL, or Solaris, a minimum client level of TTU version 13 must be installed on the Optim server. In addition, the following patch level is required for specific client components:

TTU version 13.0 client, with:
CLIv2 patch 13.0.0.11 or above
TTU version 13.10 client, with:
- CLIv2 patch 13.10.00.10 or above
- TPT version 13.10 with papida00 patch 13.10.00.06 or above
TTU version 14.0 client, with:
TPT version 14 with tptbase patch 14.00.00.04 or above

Teradata on Windows

To execute an Optim solution against a supported version of Teradata on Windows, a minimum client level of TTU version 13 must be installed on the Optim server. In addition, the following patch level is required:

For TTU 13.0:
- Teradata CLIv2 patch 13.0.0.11 or above
- Teradata GSS Client nt-i386 13.0.1.2 or above

For TTU 13.10:
- Teradata CLIv2 patch 13.10.00.08 or above
- Teradata GSS Client nt-i386 13.10.04.01 or above

For TTU 14.0:
- TPT version 14 with tptbase patch 14.00.00.04 or above

Teradata patches are available for download at http://www.teradata.com/support-and-downloads/.

Support levels

The support level for a version of a database is toleration or supported.

If a database is provided at a toleration level, the Optim solution can connect to the data source. The Optim solution also supports data types and features supported in previous releases of the solution but does not support all features of the data source.

If a data source is supported, the Optim solution also:

Supports processing of the most common data types for the data source
Might support or exploit other new features of the data source

In addition, for relational databases, the Optim solution supports extracting object definitions for the database as well as preserving and using (with the Optim create utility) extracted objects.

GNU TAR required for AIX and Solaris installation packages

The native TAR utilites that are included in IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris do not support the long file names that are used in the AIX and Solaris installation packages. Download the GNU TAR utility and use GNU TAR to extract files from the installation packages.

You can find the GNU tar utility for AIX and Solaris here: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

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