System requirements for the data warehouse

The data warehouse for Rational® Common Reporting contains the physical storage areas for configuration information, normalized data, and product data.

The Rational Common Reporting data warehouse can run in other environments but only the following environments are recommended:

Item Requirements and guidelines
Hardware
  • 2 - 4 CPU with 4 - 8 GB RAM and 80 GB or more of hard disk space. More memory generally improves performance; required memory depends on the number of concurrent users, amount of data being requested, and the size of the database
  • Optimum swap space is double the physical memory
  • Display monitor with at least 1024 x 768 color resolution using 256 colors
  • Microsoft® mouse or compatible pointing device
Platforms
  • Microsoft Windows® 2003 Standard, Enterprise Edition Revision 2 with Service Pack 2
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5 GA with Update 1
Database servers
  • IBM® DB2® Workgroup Server Edition version 9.5
  • IBM DB2 Enterprise version 9.1 with fix pack 1, 2
  • IBM DB2 Enterprise version 9.5
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 2
  • Oracle 10g release 2
  • Oracle 11g release 1
Network
  • 10/100M Ethernet card with IPv4 or IPv6 protocol
  • 10/100M Ethernet card with IPv4 and IPv6 protocol
  • Network connection to connect to a remote report server or ETL machine

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