IBM Cognos ReportNet and SAP BW

System 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)

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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