Preparing for the installation

Before you can install IBM® InfoSphere® Master Data Management Collaboration Server - Collaborative Edition, ensure that you review all of the hardware and software requirements, to run InfoSphere Master Data Management Collaboration Server - Collaborative Edition.

You must set up both a client system and one or more server systems. The application server, database server, and HTTP server can all be on the same server computer. They can be combined together on server computers, or they can each be on their own server computers. The HTTP server is recommended, but is optional.

InfoSphere Master Data Management Collaboration Server - Collaborative Edition can run on a computer that has a host name with a length of 63 characters.