IBM Telelogic Tau 4.2

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Abstract

IBM Telelogic Tau 4.2 has been made generally available on the Passport Advantage website.

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*Table of Contents*
Sections	Description
Prerequisites	The Prerequisites section provides important information to review prior to the installation of this release.
Download package	The Download package section provides the direct link to obtain the download package for installation in your environment.
Installation instructions	The Installation instructions section provides the installation instructions necessary to apply this release into your environment.
Known problems	The Known side effects section contains a link to the known problems (open defects) identified at the time of this release.

*Supporting Documentation*
Document	Description
Detailed System Requirements	Click to review the detailed system requirements information for a complete list of hardware requirements, supported operating systems, prerequisites and optional supported software, with component-level details and operating system restrictions.
Rational Tau Documentation Library	This document contains a collection of product documentation links for IBM Rational Tau.
Fix List	Click to review a complete list of the defects (APARs) resolved in this release including a list of resolved defects for the entire version family.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites include:

To run Telelogic Tau 4.2 you need to have one of the following operating systems installed on your computer:

Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
Microsoft Windows Vista Business/Enterprise SP1
Sun SPARC running Solaris 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (AS 4.0, ES 4.0, WS 4.0)
Citrix Server Operating System: Windows 2003 Server Standard
Citrix Server Operating System: Windows 2003 Server Enterprise (32/64 bit)
Server: Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server 4.0

Microsoft Windows system requirements

Resource	Minimum	Minimum for General modeling	Recommended for Large models or code generation
Processor	Pentium 500 MHz	Pentium 2 GHz (General modeling)	Pentium 3 GHz (Large models or code generation)
RAM	256 MB	1024 MB	2048 MB2
Virtual Memory	512 MB
Disk Space (Installation)	450 MB (approximately)

Linux system requirements

Resource	Minimum	Minimum for General modeling	Recommended for Large models or code generation
Processor	Pentium 500 MHz	Pentium 2 GHz	Pentium 3 GHz
RAM	256 MB	1024 MB	2048 MB
Virtual Memory	512 MB
Disk Space (Installation)	550 MB (approximately)

Solaris system requirements

Resource	Minimum	Recommended
Processor	Solaris 10, ULTRASPARC 10 CPU 1x450MHz	Solaris 10, SPARC 280r CPU 2x900MHz
Virtual Memory	512 MB	1024 MB
Disk Space (Installation)	600 MB (approximately)

X server (UNIX clients only)

Telelogic Tau is a Windows application that is ported to UNIX platforms using third-party software, MainWin, which is implemented using the X11 library. Telelogic Tau 4.2 has been ported using MainWin version 5.1.1.

Native displays

MainWin supports ‘native’ displays, provided the appropriate X server and graphics card patches are applied.

X servers on Windows

To display Telelogic Tau clients running on UNIX from a PC running Windows, Hummingbird Exceed version 8 or 9 is required.

Display settings

The following display settings are recommended:

16 bit color depth or better
Resolution (screen area) 1024 by 768 pixels, or higher

Installation Instructions

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*Download options*
Access type	Description
Passport Advantage	Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express clients are required to sign in to download the software package.
IBM OEM software	IBM Software Group OEM offerings are designed for partners who develop and sell business solutions with embedded or bundled IBM middleware software. Clients with Flexible Contract Type (FCT) license purchases and IBM Business Partners must sign in to download the software package.

Known Side Effects

**Review the following list of known issues and open defects:**
There are no known issues report.
Open defects Review the following list of open defects for Rational Tau on the IBM Support Portal. Review technote 1461170: Open APARs for Rational products available on the Web for information on how to configure your MyNotifications subscription account and subscribe to the APARs you are interested in following.

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