Before you can install the product, verify that your system meets
the software requirements.
Operating system
The following operating systems
are supported for this product in 32-bit mode:
- Microsoft® Windows® XP
Professional with Service Pack 2 or 3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 or
2
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1 or
2
- Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows
Vista Ultimate
- Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows
Vista Ultimate with Service Pack 1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux® AS 4.0 (All functions except recording)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0 Update 5 (All functions except recording)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4.0 (All functions except recording)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4.0 Update 1 (All functions except recording)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4.0 (All functions except recording)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4.0 Update 1 (All functions except recording)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4.0 Update 7 (All functions except recording)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 (All functions except recording)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 SP4 (All functions except recording)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 (All functions except recording)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 SP1 (All functions except recording)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 SP2 (All functions except recording)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.0 (All functions except recording)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.0 SP1 (All functions except recording)
The listed operating systems support all of the languages that are supported
by
Rational® Functional Tester.
Note: Rational Functional Tester Extension
for Terminal-based Applications runs on Microsoft Windows 2000 , Microsoft
Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows Vista systems.
It supports connection to zSeries® (TN3270 terminal types for MVS™ and VM), iSeries® (TN5250
terminal type for OS/400®) and pSeries® (VT terminal types for Unix)
hosts.
Software requirements for extending an existing Eclipse IDE
To
install Rational Functional Tester into
an existing eclipse, the version of the existing eclipse should be 3.4.1 or
higher.
To extend an existing Eclipse IDE, you also require a JRE from
one of the following Java™ development kits:
- For Windows: IBM® 32-bit SDK for Windows, Java 2 Technology Edition, Version 6 or
Sun Java 2 Standard Edition 6
- For Linux: IBM 32-bit SDK for Linux on Intel® architecture, Java 2 Technology
Edition, Version 6 or Sun Java 2 Standard Edition 6
Note: You might need to update your Eclipse version in order to
install updates to Rational Functional Tester.
Refer to the update's release documentation for information on changes to
the prerequisite Eclipse version.
Important: To enable users
who do not have Administrator privileges to work with Rational Functional Tester on
a Windows Vista system, do not install Eclipse inside the Program Files directory
(C:\Program Files\).