IBM® Informix® Client Software Development Kit, Version 4.10
System requirements for IBM OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for Informix
The IBM® OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for Informix® has these prerequisites when it is installed with the IBM Informix Client Software Development Kit (Client SDK).
Supported platforms
OAT can be installed and run on these platforms:
Linux
- RHEL 5, x86
- RHEL 5, x86_64
- RHEL 6, x86
- RHEL 6, x86_64
- RHEL 7, x86_64
- SuSE SLES 11, x86
- SuSE SLES 11, x86_64
- Asianux 3.0, x86
- Asianux 3.0, x86_64
- Ubuntu 10.04, x86
- Ubuntu 10.04, x86_64
- Ubuntu 12.04, x86
- Ubuntu 12.04, x86_64
Windows
- Windows 2003 SP2, 32-bit
- Windows 2003 SP2, 64-bit
- Windows 2008, 32-bit
- Windows 2008, 64-bit
- Windows 2008 R2, 64-bit
- Windows 2012 Server
- Windows 7, 32-bit
- Windows 7, 64-bit
- Windows 8
- Windows Vista, 32-bit
- Windows Vista, 64-bit
- Windows XP, 32-bit
- Windows XP, 64-bit
Note: Windows 64-bit
systems can use OAT if OAT is
installed through 32-bit Client SDK.
Mac
OS X
- Mac OS X 10.5.2, 64-bit
- Mac OS X 10.6, 64-bit
System requirements
For Linux and Mac OS X, OAT requires these system resources:
- RAM: 40 MB
- Disk space: 125 MB
For Windows, OAT requires these system resources:
- RAM: 40 MB
- Disk space: 175 MB
IBM Informix versions required
For OAT and the OAT plug-ins, the following Informix versions are required:
- OAT: Informix 11.10 or later.
- IBM Informix Health Advisor Plug-in for OpenAdmin Tool (OAT): Informix 11.50.xC7 or later.
- IBM Informix JSON Plug-in for OpenAdmin Tool (OAT): Informix 12.10.xC2 or later.
- IBM Informix Replication Plug-in for OpenAdmin Tool (OAT): Informix 11.50.xC4 or later. To access a database with a non-English locale, the Replication plug-in requires Informix 11.70.xC4 or later.
- IBM Informix Schema Manager Plug-in for OpenAdmin Tool (OAT): Informix 11.10 or later.
- IBM Informix TimeSeries Plug-in for OpenAdmin Tool (OAT): Informix 11.10 or later.
Prerequisites for all operating systems
- A web browser: Mozilla Firefox (Recommended) 10, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, Apple Safari 6.
- Adobe Flash Player 11.
- The UTF-8 locales for all the databases that you access through OAT. To access a database with a locale that is not included in the Client SDK, install the locale by using the IBM Informix International Language Supplement (ILS). After you install OAT, install ILS on the computer where OAT is installed in the Informix Connect or Client SDK directory. Use ILS to install the additional locale, including the UTF-8 version, in the Informix Connect or Client SDK directory that OAT is using. The database name must be in English characters.
Prerequisites for Linux
On Linux 32-bit operating systems, the following libraries must be installed in /lib/ or /usr/lib/. On Linux 64-bit operating systems, the libraries must be installed in /lib64, /usr/lib64, /lib/, or /usr/lib/.
These libraries are required
for 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. Some exceptions are noted.
- libc.so.6
- libcom_err.so.2
- libcrypt.so.1
- libcrypto.so.6
- libdl.so.2
- libexpat.so.0
- libfreebl3.so (RHEL 6 only)
- libgssapi_krb5.so.2
- libk5crypto.so.3
- libkeyutils.so.1
- libkrb5.so.3
- libkrb5support.so.0
- libm.so.6
- libnsl.so.1
- libpcre.so.0
- libpng12.so.0
- libpthread.so.0
- libresolv.so.2
- librt.so.1
- libselinux.so.1 (RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 only)
- libsepol.so.1 (RHEL 5 only)
- libssl.so.6
- libuuid.so.1
- libxml2.so.2
- libz.so.1
Prerequisites for Mac OS X
On
Mac OS X, the following libraries must be installed:
- libapr-1.0.dylib
- libaprutil-1.0.dylib
- libexpat.1.dylib
- libgcc_s.1.dylib
- libiconv.2.dylib
- libsqlite3.0.dylib
- libSystem.B.dylib
Prerequisites for Windows
On Windows,
the following prerequisites must be met for installation:
- Uninstall releases of IBM Informix Connect and Client SDK version 2.90 or earlier. If outdated versions of either of these products are found on the system, the OAT installation does not work.
- Uninstall any existing installations of PHP. If PHP is found on the system, the OAT installation does not work because PHP does not support multiple instances of installation on Windows.
- For Windows XP, verify that Service Pack 2 is installed.
- Uninstall any existing instance of OAT. Multiple instances of the OAT installation are not supported on Windows.