Installing Websphere Application Server Version 7

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The FileNet P8 Application Engine (AE) and Content Engine (CE) are applications running under the control of a Websphere Application Server (WAS).

The WAS installation process and console requires a supported web browser to be installed (for example, Mozilla Firefox).

Typically not all X11 packages are installed in a Linux for System z installation. One possible way to export Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) for installation process steps is to display them on your local workstation. One possibility is to use the Virtual Network Protocol (VNC) for that purpose even it is functionally not required. This requires the xorg-x11-Xvnc package installed on the server. You can use the ssh command to log into servers with X11 forwarding enabled then (ssh -X (user@server)).

WAS Version 7 requires an increased user limit (ulimit) for open files. The new limit was set for the FileNet P8 CE/PE server and application engine (AE) server where a WAS application runs.

The maximum limit for the number of open files or open file descriptors was set to 8192:

By adding the ulimit command to /etc/profile.local to make the change a default for newly opened shells
```
ulimit -n 8192
```

For the 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 11 operating system, both the xorg-x11-libs and the xorg-x11-libs-32bit package must be present before installing and using WebSphere Application Server.