Prerequisites
Make sure that the prerequisites are met before you run IBM® watsonx Code Assistant™ for Z Understand (Z Understand) on Linux® or Linux on System z®.
The Z Understand container package needs the
following prerequisites:
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL), running on x86 or s390x platform
- Podman version 5 (recommended) or 4.
- 32 GB RAM minimum.
- CPU:
- Linux: Intel XEON Dual processor with minimum of 4 cores each, 3 GHz or higher, with Turbo support
- Linux on System z: 4 Integrated Facility for Linux (IFLs)
- Dedicated hard disk drive for the operating system, minimum 500 GB. Secondary dedicated hard disk drive for data, minimum 2 TB.
- One of the following relational database servers, to be installed on a separate dedicated
machine (recommended):
- Db2® for LUW (Linux, UNIX, and Windows). For more information, see Db2 for LUW (Linux, UNIX, and Windows) prerequisites.
- Microsoft SQL Server. For more information, see Microsoft SQL server configurations.
- Supported internet browsers (used for accessing Z Understand Configuration Service Admin):
- Google Chrome (recommended)
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Edge
You can now install Z Understand, as it is explained in Installing.