IBM Cognos ReportNet and SAP BW

System Requirements


SAP requirements
  • SAP BW 3.0B+
  • SAP GUI 6.20+ with BW Add-On (Windows)
  • SAP UNIX DLL (UNIX)
  • Enterprise Portal 5.0+ (optional)
  • SAP Web Application Server version 6.20+ (optional)
IBM Cognos ReportNet
System requirements for UNIX
Operating System Sun Solaris
(recommended: file descriptor limit set to 1024)
HP-UX
IBM AIX
RAM Minimum: 512 MB
Recommended: 1 GB
Disk Space 1 GB
Web Server A Web server installed and started
JRE A Web server installed and started
Web Server Version 1.3.1 of a Java Runtime Environment
Sun Solaris: 1.3.1_07
HP-UX: 1.3.1_08
IBM AIX: 1.3.1 (ca131-20030122a)
Database Oracle (version 8.1.7.2  or later if Oracle server is on a different OS from IBM Cognos ReportNet)
IBM-DB2
Microsoft SQL server (TCP/IP connectivity to SQL server)
Web Browser (all) Cookies and JavaScript enabled
Internet Explorer only Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins
Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
Active Scripting

System requirements for Windows
Operating System Windows
RAM Minimum: 512 MB
Recommended: 1 GB
Disk Space 1 GB
Web Server A Web server installed and started
Database Oracle (version 8.1.7.2 or later if Oracle server is on a different OS from Cognos ReportNet)
IBM-DB2
Microsoft SQL server (TCP/IP connectivity to SQL server)
Web Browser (all) Cookies and JavaScript enabled
Internet Explorer only Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins
Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
Active Scripting

System requirements for Linux
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0 Update 2+ on IBM pSeries (required patches)
RAM Minimum: 512 MB
Recommended: 1 GB
Disk Space 1 GB
JRE IBM JRE 1.4.1 SR2
Web Server IBM HTTP Server 2.0.47+
Database IBM DB2 8.1 via 8.1 JDBC driver
Web Browser (all) Cookies and JavaScript enabled
Internet Explorer only Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins
Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
Active Scripting


Authentication Providers
  • LDAP 3.0
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Windows NT LM
  • Netegrity Site Minder
  • SAP 3.0B
  • Cognos Namespace
User Interface Languages
  • English
  • German
  • Japanese
  • French
  • Dutch
  • Spanish
  • Finnish
  • Italian
  • Swedish
  • Simplified Chinese


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