Supported environments
To review an up-to-date list of environments that are supported by IBM® Cognos® Analytics with Watson products, including information on operating systems, patches, browsers, web servers, directory servers, database servers, and application servers, see the IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports page (www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6440667).
Unless otherwise indicated, IBM Cognos products are compatible with later versions of patches or service packs from the versions stated.
It is important to note that the Linux® operating system is available in a number of distributions and supports a number of hardware platforms. Ensure that the combination of the operating system and hardware that you are using is supported.
Cognos products and virtualization environments
The IBM virtualization policy (www.ibm.com/software/support/virtualization_policy.html) describes IBM support for virtualization environments.
For more information, search supported server virtualization environments by product (pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/prodguid/v1r0/clarity/vesForProduct.html).