Supported software in 9.0.0

IBM OpenPages® 9.0.0 includes changes to software requirements:

Prerequisite software

Table 1. Changes to supported software versions
Software Conformance changes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) Server 7.x is no longer supported.
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition is now supported.

For more information, see the Supported Environments web page.

FastMap file format requirements

In version 9.0, FastMap supports .xlsx files only. The .xls file type is no longer supported.

  • The default export template is now in .xlsx format. The existing .xls file is not removed but is no longer used.

    If you customized DefaultTemplate.xls, download it, re-save it as an .xlsx file by using Microsoft Excel, and then upload your DefaultTemplate.xlsx file.

    Note: The filename must be DefaultTemplate.xlsx.
  • If you use object-specific export templates, update them to .xlsx format. (Download them, re-save them as .xlsx files by using Microsoft Excel, and then upload them.)

    If an object-specific template is in .xls format, the DefaultTemplate.xlsx is used.

  • FastMap import files must be in .xlsx format. If you need to import a file from an older environment, save the file as .xlsx, then import it.
  • The .xlsx format supports a greater number of columns and rows. For more information, see the Microsoft Excel documentation.
Note: Performance is expected to be slower with .xlsx files due to the characteristics of the .xlsx file type. This performance issue is not specific to OpenPages.