Minimum requirements

Check that your system meets the following hardware, software, user account, and database requirements.

Hardware

IBM recommends that you run the InterChange Server on a dedicated system. The system should have restricted access to maintain security.

The following hardware requirements are suggested minimum requirements. However, the actual hardware requirements for your system might be greater, depending on the complexity of your specific InterChange Server environment, throughput, and data object size. Also, the following information is for the InterChange Server system only. If you choose to run other applications on the same system, make appropriate adjustments.

These hardware requirements are for the UNIX machine that runs InterChange Server. To use System Manager (as well as other ICS tools), you also need to have at least one Windows client machine.

Check AIX system Required

Machine pSeries 610 6E1 class or equivalent

Processor 375 MHz IBM POWER3-II

Memory 512 MB main memory

Disk space: InterChange Server, databases, and supporting software
40 GB


Check Solaris system Required

Machine SunFire V120 class or equivalent

Processor 450 MHz UltraSPARC-II module with 2 MB external cache

Memory 512 MB main memory

Disk space: InterChange Server, databases, and supporting software
40 GB


Check HP-UX system Required

Machine HP 9000 PA-RISC

Processor 440 MHz

Memory 512 MB main memory

Disk space: InterChange Server, databases, and supporting software
40 GB


Check Linux (Red Hat or SuSE) system Required

Machine IBM eServer xSeries or equivalent

Processor Intel Pentium III 1GHz

Memory 512 MB main memory

Disk space: InterChange Server, databases, and supporting software
40 GB

Software

Make sure you have all the software listed in Table 5 for AIX, Table 6 for Solaris, Table 7 for HP-UX and Table 8 for Linux.

User accounts

The following user accounts are required to be set up for the InterChange Server system.

Check User account Description

UNIX system administrator (root) The UNIX system administrator creates user accounts and performs most installations of the third-party software.

WebSphere business integration administrator (admin by default) The WebSphere business integration administrator installs and configures the WebSphere business integration system and supporting software.

Database administrator (DBA) The DBA creates the databases, data sources, and the InterChange Server DBMS access account that the ICS system uses.

InterChange Server RDBMS access account (by default, wicsadmin for DB2 and Oracle databases; ics for Microsoft SQL Server database) InterChange Server uses this login account to access the repository and cross-reference databases to create and update tables.

mqm user account The mqm user account is required to run WebSphere MQ.

Database

InterChange Server is certified for use with DB2 version 8.1 (with FixPack 5) and Oracle Server 8.1.7.4 and 9.2.0.4 (9i). Make sure that the Server meets the following criteria:

DB2


Check Requirement

Database user with database and table creation privileges created. User name must match that of ICS RDBMS account user.

50 MB of disk space for data files available for the InterChange Server repository database (icsrepos).

The maxappls and maxagents parameters configured with a minimum of 50 user connections each.

The tablespace for the mapping tables (optional) configured to contain at least 50 MB of data.

Maximum application heap size configured to be at least 4096.

The DB client libraries are functioning.

Oracle


Check Requirement

Tablespace with data file names defined. IBM suggests cwrepos1_cwld, cwtemp1_cwld, cwrbs1_cwld.

At least 50 MB of disk space for the temp and rollback data files available.

Rollback segments defined. IBM suggests cw_rbs1, cw_rbs2, cw_rbs3, and cw_rbs4.

Environment variables set: ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE environment variables set correctly in the profile of the administrator account (admin by default) ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_BASE, and ORACLE_SID environment variables set correctly in the profile of the oracle user account

Instance name <SID> with a 50 MB data file size created. IBM suggests cwld as the database instance name.

The initdbname.ora parameter file with control files and the rollback segments defined (where dbname is the name of the InterChange Server database instance name).

The listener.ora file defined with SID_NAME = <SID>.

Database name with the network protocol defined. IBM suggests cwld.

DBMS access account with resource, connect, and unlimited tablespace privileges created. Name must match that of ICS RDBMS account.

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