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Oracle® Transparent Gateway for DRDA Installation and User's Guide
10g Release 2 (10.2) for UNIX

Part Number B16217-01
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3 System Requirements

This chapter provides information about hardware and software requirements specific to this release of the Oracle Transparent Gateway for DRDA. It includes the following sections:

3.1 Hardware Requirements

The Hardware requirements includes processor, memory, network attachment, and drives.

Processors

Refer to the Oracle Database Installation Guide 10g for UNIX Systems and to the certification matrix on Oracle MetaLink for the most up-to-date list of certified hardware platforms and operating system version requirements to operate the gateway for your Linux, AIX-Based, HP-UX, or Solaris system. The Oracle MetaLink web site can be found at the following URL:

http://metalink.oracle.com/

The gateway processor requirements for your platform are as follows:

Memory

For most installations, a minimum of 256 MB of real memory is recommended for the first user to support the Oracle Transparent Gateway for DRDA.

The total real memory requirement for each concurrent use of the gateway depends on the following factors:

Network Attachment

The hardware requires any network attachment that is supported by either SNA server networking for SNA communication, or TCP/IP Networking Facility for TCP/IP communication. The network attachment for SNA is typically a Token Ring or SDLC Coaxial attachment. If you want concurrent SNA access, then the hardware must support independent LUs. The network attachment for TCP/IP is typically an Ethernet attachment.

CD-ROM Drive

An internal or external CD-ROM drive is required for installation.

Disk Space

Disk space required for installation are:

3.2 Software Requirements

The system software configuration that is described in this section is supported by Oracle as long as the underlying system software products are supported by their respective vendors. Verify the latest support status with your system software vendors.

Operating System

The operating systems that can be used are:

DRDA Databases

You must have at least one of the following DRDA servers at a supported release level:

Communication Server

Supported SNA network software are:

Oracle Database

The Oracle Database which is to act as the Oracle integrating server requires the latest released patch set for Oracle Database 10g release 10.2.0, 10.1.0 or Oracle9i server release 9.2.

Oracle Networking Products

If the Oracle integrating server is not on the same host as the gateway, then Oracle Net is required to support communication between the host and the Oracle integrating server.

The following Oracle networking products are required on the same system as Oracle Database 10g:

Oracle Net software is included in this Oracle Transparent Gateway for DRDA release. Your gateway license includes a license for Oracle Net and an adapter of your choice. This license restricts the use of Oracle Net for gateway access.

3.3 Documentation Requirements

In addition to the documentation provided with the Oracle Transparent Gateway for DRDA distribution kit, the following Oracle documentation is recommended:

In addition to the Oracle documentation, ensure that you have appropriate documentation for your platform, for your operating system, and DRDA Server (DB2/OS390, DB2/400, DB2 Universal Database, or DB2 server for VM).

The IBM publications regarding a distributed relational database might also be useful.