Planning

This section provides information that you should consider before you install Mobile Portal Accelerator and includes hardware and software requirements and supported devices.

Hardware and software requirements
Specific hardware and software is required before you begin installing the Mobile Portal Accelerator product, or before you migrate from an earlier version of the Everyplace® Mobile Portal Enable.
Database planning
When planning the databases to use with IBM® Mobile Portal Accelerator, consider the following information.
Supported mobile device protocols, languages, and character sets
Use the following sections for information about support provided by IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator for device protocols, languages, and character sets.
Browsers supported for administration portlets, HTML sample portlets and applications
Browser support for the IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator administration portlets, HTML portlets, and applications is listed.
Planning for a clustered environment
Consider the following information when planning to deploy the IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator product in a clustered environment.
Mobile Portal Toolkit development environment
There are several software requirements and prerequisite products for the Mobile Portal Toolkit development environment.
IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator Support Statement
This document clarifies a revision to the definition of supported and unsupported with respect to the various products on which IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator depends for proper operation.