Developer system requirements

The developer system for IBM® Rational® Insight contains the models and templates for the reports used to display the data. The developer system is used to customize the Rational Insight data warehouse and to configure the data sources for the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process.
The Rational Insight developer system can run in other environments but for optimum performance, consider the following environments:
Item Requirements and guidelines
Hardware
  • Processor

    Minimum: Pentium® 4 2Ghz; Optimum: Dual Core 2+Ghz

  • Memory

    Minimum: 2 GB; Optimum: 3 GB or more

  • Free hard disk space

    Minimum: 3 GB; Optimum: 15 GB

  • Display monitor with at least 1024 x 768 color resolution using 256 colors
  • Microsoft® mouse or compatible pointing device
Platforms
  • Microsoft Windows® XP Professional Edition with Service Pack 2
  • Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5 GA
Database clients
  • IBM DB2® Workgroup Server Edition 9.5
  • IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 9.1 with fix pack 1, 2
  • IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 9.5
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 2
  • Oracle Database 10g release 2
  • Oracle Database 11g release 1
Web browsers
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
  • Firefox 2.0 and its upgrades
Network
  • 10/100M Ethernet card with IPv4 protocol. Optionally, IPv6 protocol.
  • Network connection to connect to a remote database, a report server, or an ETL system.

If your developer system is in a Linux environment, you cannot install the report development tools Data Manager and Framework Manager.


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