System requirements for the developer system

The developer machine for Rational® Common Reporting contains the models and templates for the reports used to display the data. The developer machine is used to customize the Rational Common Reporting data warehouse and to configure the data sources for the ETL process (Extract, Transform, Load process).

The Rational Common Reporting developer machine 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® XP Pro with Service Pack 2
  • Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard, Enterprise with Revision 2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Revision 2 with Service Pack 2
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5 GA
Database clients
  • 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
Web browsers
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
  • Firefox 2.0 or later
Network
  • 10/100M Ethernet card with IPv4 protocol. Optionally, IPv6 protocol.
  • Network connection to connect to a remote database, report server or ETL machine

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