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
Recommended Documentation

3.1 Hardware Requirements

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

Hardware Items	Required for MS Windows XP Systems	Required for MS Windows 2003 Systems
CPU	Intel Pentium III or compatible	Intel Pentium or compatible
Disk Space	300 MB	300 MB
Memory	256 MB	256 MB

3.2 Software Requirements

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

Platform	Requirement	WebSphere MQ Server Software
MS Windows XP Professional	MS Windows XP Professional version 2002 The latest service pack for your operating sytem, MS Windows XP Prpfessional (Service Pack 2)	When the gateway resides on the same system as the WebSphere MQ server software, or when the gateway resides on a different system than the WebSphere MQ server software, WebSphere MQ version 5.2 or later is required on the gateway system.
MS Windows 2003 Systems	MS Windows 2003, Version 2003 The latest service pack for your operating system, MS Windows 2000 (Service Pack 1)	When the gateway resides on the same system as the WebSphere MQ server software, or when the gateway resides on a different system than the WebSphere MQ server software, WebSphere MQ version 5.2 or later is required on the gateway system.

3.3 Recommended Documentation

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

Documentation is available from the following Web sites:

http://metalink.oracle.com

http://docs.oracle.com