System Requirements

Below you will find the minimum requirements for each of our products

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Application Development

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WebSmart

- Minimum iSeries Operating System for WebSmart 7: V5R1M0.
- Minimum iSeries Operating System for WebSmart 8.2: V5R3.
- TCP/IP running on your iSeries
- Minimum PC requirements: Windows 98, with IE 4 installed. Minimum processor speed: Pentium 200 (Note: it will run fine on slower machines, just slower!)
-Recommended XP with IE7
- RPG IV Compiler. IBM APACHE HTTP Server (configured correctly). It will initially occupy approximately 50 MB on your iSeries, and up to 150 MB during the install until the install lib is removed.
-SQL Developers Kit (Licensed Program: *COMPATIBLE DB2 Query Mgr and SQL DevKit - 5722ST1) if you plan on creating programs with the SQL templates.
-Note the Server side (WAS) and the Developer side(IDE) are licensed separately.

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WebSmart-PHP

If hosting PHP apps on your System i:
- Minimum iSeries Operating System for WebSmart PHP 2: V5R3M0.
- Minimum iSeries Operating System for WebSmart PHP 3.x: V5R3.
- TCP/IP running on your iSeries
- Zend Core installed and running on your iSeries. We recommend that you install ZEND CORE (free) and the necessary PTFs prior to installing WebSmart PHP. To determine if you have Zend Core installed and for more information on Zend Core, see KB Document 6964.

If hosting PHP apps on a server other than a System i (i.e Windows, Unix, Linux):
  1. You must have Apache and PHP and all appropriate modules installed and configured correctly.
  2. You must ensure that your PHP installation can access the database(s) you need to connect to.
  3. If you are using a database for which there are predefined templates you should be able to create functional PHP applications for your environment without needing to make changes to the templates. Otherwise, varying degrees of template modifications may be required.
  4. For development you need access to a System i for security purposes. At runtime you do not need System i access, there is no server side license.
Development Environment: - Minimum PC requirements: Windows 98, with IE 4 installed. Minimum processor speed: Pentium 200 (Note: it will run fine on slower machines, just slower!)
-Recommended XP with IE7
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Presto

- Minimum iSeries Operating System: V5R3M0.
- TCP/IP running on your iSeries
- WebSphere Application Server: V6R0 Express or regular edition. Though, only the WebFacing server needs to be running.
- Minimum PC requirements: Windows XP with IE 7 installed. Minimum processor speed: Pentium 200 (Note: it will run fine on slower machines, just slower!)

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Clover

-Minimum iSeries Operating System for Clover 1.5: V5R1M0 or newer and an RPG IV Compiler.
-Minimum iSeries Operating System for Clover 2.0: V5R3 or newer and an RPG IV Compiler.
-SQL Developers Kit (Licensed Program: *COMPATIBLE DB2 Query Mgr and SQL DevKit - 5722ST1)
-TCP/IP and the IBM APACHE HTTP Server configured correctly.
-Clover will initially occupy approximately 50 MB on your iSeries, and up to 150 MB during the install (particularly web installs), until the install libs are removed from your system.
-Minimum PC Requirement: Windows 98, with IE 4 installed and processor speed of Pentium 200 or higher (Note: it will run fine on slower machines, just slower!)
-Recommended XP with IE7

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SmartCharts

SmartCharts is included in WebSmart, Clover and Nexus. Please see the relevant product for minimum requirements

ProGen Plus

Minimum iSeries Operating System: V5R1 and an RPG compiler. ProGen Plus will initially occupy approximately 100 MB on your iSeries, and about twice that during the install and until the install libs are removed from your system.

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DbGen

Minimum iSeries Operating System: V4R5M0 or newer. Requires 22 Mb for installation. Once installation is completed only 11 Mb are required.

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RDW- RPG/DDS to Web

RDW - RDW is an add-on module to WebSmart. Please see WebSmart's minimum requirements.

Portal & ECM Technology

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Nexus Portal & ECM

Minimum iSeries Operating System: V5R3M0 or newer. PC: Firefox, Chrome or Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher browser with JavaScript support and cookies activated.

*IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have V5R4 check the Nexus updates page for current updates relative to V5R4.

Report and Document Distribution

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Catapult

Minimum iSeries Operating System for Catapult 7.2 and earlier: V5R1 or newer.
Minimum iSeries Operating System for Catapult 7.4 and higher: V5R3 or newer.
Approximately 12 Mb of disk space is required.

  • Catapult Poller: TCP/IP networking, an SMTP mail server. Windows 2000 or higher. 256 Mb RAM Min, 512 Mb or more recommended, 1 Gig is optimum. 9 Mb of disk required for initial poller install, 5-500 Mb disk required for working with the software, depending on spool file sizes.
  • Catapult Console: TCP/IP networking, an SMTP mail server, Windows 2000 or higher and 800x600 screen resolution or better.
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Spool-Explorer

Minimum iSeries Operating System: V5R1M0 Minimum PC Requirement: Windows 2000 or higher

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Ez-Pickin's

Minimum PC Requirement: Windows 98

Business Intelligence

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Clover

-Minimum iSeries Operating System: V5R1M0 or newer and an RPG IV Compiler.
-TCP/IP and the IBM APACHE HTTP Server configured correctly.
-Clover will initially occupy approximately 50 MB on your iSeries, and up to 150 MB during the install (particularly web installs), until the install libs are removed from your system.
-Minimum PC Requirement: Windows 98, with IE 4 installed and processor speed of Pentium 200 or higher (Note: it will run fine on slower machines, just slower!)

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Ez-Pickin's

Minimum PC Requirement: Windows 98

Utilities

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Docu-Mint

-Minimum iSeries Operating System: V5R3 for Version 6.5.
-Requires up to 120MB during the install
-After installation the Base product requires 40MB, plus an additional 22 MB for the System 36 Environment which is optional
-Note that When you analyze your libraries, Docu-Mint is saving very detailed analysis results to its internal database, and therefore, the size of DM#LIB library will vary based on the number of libraries you analyze, and the number of objects in each library.

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File-Flash Plus

Minimum iSeries Operating System: V4R5. A new install of File-Flash Plus initially requires approximately 6Mb of disc space, and double this until the installation libraries are removed.

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