3 Requirements

This chapter provides information about the hardware and software required for the installation of Oracle Procedural Gateway for WebSphere MQ and the recommended online documentation. It contains the following sections:

Hardware Requirements
Software Requirements
Related Documentation

3.1 Hardware Requirements

The following table contains the hardware requirements for Oracle Procedural Gateway for WebSphere MQ.

Hardware Items	Required for AIX-Based Systems	Required for HP 9000 Series HP_UX	Required for Solaris	Required for Linux/32
CD-ROM	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CPU	IBM RS/6000 AIX-Based System Processor	HP 9000 Series 700 or 800 processor for HP-UX 11.0	Sun Solaris Operating System (SPARC) Processor	Red Hat Linux AS 2.4 Intel Architecture 32 bit
Disk space	1 GB	1 GB	1 GB	1 GB
Memory	256 MB	256 MB	256 MB	256 MB
Swap space	512 MB or twice the amount of RAM, whichever is greater	512 MB or twice the amount of RAM, whichever is greater	512 MB or twice the amount of RAM, whichever is greater	512 MB or twice the amount of RAM, whichever is greater

3.2 Software Requirements

The following table contains the software requirements for Oracle Procedural Gateway for WebSphere MQ.

Platform	Requirement	IBM Software
AIX-Based Systems	64-bit only AIX 4.3.3 or AIX 5L OS Patches: Check with your software vendor for current maintenance requirements.	When the gateway resides on the same system as the WebSphere MQ server software, then WebSphere MQ for AIX version 5 release 5.1 or later is required. When the gateway resides on a different system than the WebSphere MQ server software, then WebSphere MQ Client for AIX version 5 release 5.1 or later is required on the gateway system.
HP 9000 Series 700 or 800 (HP-UX)	64-bit only HP-UX 11.0 OS Patches: Check with your software vendor for current maintenance requirements.	When the gateway resides on the same system as the WebSphere MQ server software, then WebSphere MQ for HP 9000 version 5 release 5.1 or later is required. When the gateway resides on a different system than the WebSphere MQ server software, then WebSphere MQ Client for HP 9000 version 5 release 5.1 or later is required on the gateway system.
Sun Solaris Operating System (SPARC)	32-bit OS only (32-bit or 64-bit hardware) Solaris 2.6 or later OS Patches: Check with your software vendor for current maintenance requirements.	When the gateway resides on the same system as the WebSphere MQ server software, then WebSphere MQ for Sun Solaris version 5 release 5.1 or later is required. When the gateway resides on a different system than the WebSphere MQ server software, then WebSphere MQ Client for Sun Solaris version 5 release 5.1 or later is required on the gateway system.
Linux/32	32-bit OS only Red Hat Linux AS 2.4 or later OS Patches: Check with your software vendor for current maintenance requirements	When the gateway resides on the same system as the WebSphere MQ server software, then WebSphere MQ for IA Linux/32 version 5 release 5.2 or later is required. When the gateway resides on a different system than the WebSphere MQ server software, then WebSphere MQ Client for IA Linux/32 version 5 release 5.2 or later is required on the gateway system.

Set the ulimit value for the maximum number of open files per process to 1024 or greater:

prompt> ulimit -n 1024

Note:

All IBM software must be installed before the gateway software is installed. For example, if WebSphere MQ software is not installed before PG4MQ, then the product link fails.

3.3 Related Documentation

In addition to the documentation that is included with the gateway software, the following Oracle publications are recommended:

Oracle Visual Workbench for Oracle Procedural Gateways for IBM MQSeries Installation and User's Guide
PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference
Oracle Net Services Administrator's Guide
Oracle Net Services Reference Guide

For more documentation, refer to the Metalink and Oracle Documentation Web sites at:

http://metalink.oracle.com

http://docs.oracle.com