V9.2 System Requirements
This document summarizes the hardware and software supported by VA Smalltalk 9.2. If you are running the EMSRV library manager program you should refer to EMSRV requirements (below)
Operating System Summary
VA Smalltalk v9.2 is a Windows and Linux release. AIX and Solaris specific information pertains to v8.6.3.
This table shows the release level(s) of operating systems that are supported by VA Smalltalk v9.2 and the associated software requirements.
The minimum hardware requirements are the same as those documented by the operating system platform that VA Smalltalk is running on with the additional requirement of 75 MB (plus 65 MB for on-line documentation) for Client installs and 300 MB (with additional disk space for growth) for Manager installs. On UNIX operating systems, VA Smalltalk requires a color display supported by X-Window System Version 11 Release 5 and OSF/Motif Version 1.2, 2.1, 2.3.
SELinux Not Supported
VA Smalltalk does not yet support running on Linux distributions with SELinux enabled.
This includes current flavors of Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS.
To run VA Smalltalk on these distributions, SELinux must be disabled.
Run the sestatus command to determine if SELinux is enabled
Note: Significant performance improvements will be observed with systems that exceed the minimum hardware requirements.
Operating System
Software
Windows
Vista (32/64-bit)
Win 7 * (32/64-bit)
Win 2008 Server R2 (32-bit)
Win 2008 Server R2 (64-bit)
Win 8 * (32/64-bit)
Win 8.1* (32/64-bit)
Win 10* (32/64-bit)
Win 2012 Server R2 (32-bit)
Win 2012 Server R2 (64-bit)
Win 2016 Server R2 (32-bit)
Win 2016 Server R2 (64-bit)
Win 2019 Server (64-bit)
 
 
*Professional and above
Server Workbench Requirements
To use CPIC interactive, one of the following:
IBM Personal Communication V4.1 or later,
IBM Communications Server Version 6 or later, or
Attachmate Extra! Personal Client Version 6.2 or
Attachmate Extra! Mainframe Server Edition Version 8 or later.
Database Requirements
DB2 versions 6.1 through 11.1
ORACLE 8i (8.1.6) through 12c
PostgreSQL (10.0.6) through 12
SQLite 3.8.4.1 through 3.29.0
Domino Connection Requirements
Lotus Notes Version 6.0 or later (32- bit Windows only)
Web Connection Requirements
Web server supporting HTTP 1.0 and CGI 1.1
For ISAPI, Microsoft Internet Information Server V5.0
For servlet interface, an HTTP server that supports servlets.
Web browser supporting HTML 2.0
Communications/Transactions Requirements
For the CICS® ECI protocol, IBM CICS Universal Client V3.0 (32-bit)
For the MQSeries® protocol, IBM MQSeries for Windows Version 6.0 or later
For APPC and CPIC 32-bit, one of the following: IBM Personal Communication V4.1 or later,
IBM Communications Server Version 6 or later, or
Attachmate Extra! Personal Client Version 6.2 or
Attachmate Extra! Mainframe Server Edition Version 8 or later.
For EHLLAPI (32-bit), IBM Personal Communication V4.1 or later, or
Attachmate Extra! Personal Client Version 6.2 or
Attachmate Extra! Mainframe Server Edition Version 8 or later.
HTML Documentation Requirements
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Firefox
Opera
Chrome
Linux
Red Hat 9
Red Hat Enterprise Advanced Server 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise 4.3
Red Hat Enterprise 5 (32/64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise 7 (32/64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise 8 (32/64-bit)
SuSE Enterprise 9.3 (32-bit)
SuSE Enterprise 10 (32/64-bit)
openSUSE 10.1 (32/64-bit)
openSUSE 12.1 (32/64-bit)
Leap v15 (32/64-bit)
Leap v15.1 (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 6 and 7 (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 9 (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 10.10 (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 11 (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 12 (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 13 (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 14.04 (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 15.04 (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 16.04 (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 18.04 (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 19.10 (32/64-bit)
Fedora Core 14 (32/64-bit)
Fedora Core 16 (32/64-bit)
Fedora Core 19 (32/64-bit)
Fedora Core 20 (32/64-bit)
Fedora Core 22 (32/64-bit)
Fedora Core 24 (32/64-bit)
Fedora Workstation v28 (32/64-bit)
Fedora Workstation v30 (32/64-bit)
Mint 18.3 (32/64-bit)
Mint 19.2 (32/64-bit)
 
 
Note: Intel/AMD processors only, NOT Itanium
Database Requirements
For local IBM database support, one of the following:
DB2 Universal Database Version 5.0 or 9.7 for Linux or
DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Version 8 or 9.7 for Linux
For remote IBM database support, one of the following:
Client Application Enabler/HP (CAE for Linux) Version 2.1
DB2 Connect Enterprise Client Version 8.2 for Linux
For ORACLE support, ORACLE Version 8i (8.1.6),9i,10g,11g or 12c
Web Connection Requirements
Web server supporting HTTP 1.0 and CGI 1.1
For servlet interface, an HTTP server that supports servlets
Web browser supporting HTML 2.0
Communications/Transactions Requirements
For the MQSeries® protocol, IBM MQSeries V6.0 and higher
HTML Documentation Requirements
Firefox
Opera
Chrome
EMSRV Requirements:
The EMSRV 7.2 library manager program is supported on the same operating system platforms as shown above.
The EMSRV 7.2 library manager program is supported when its repository files reside on any file system supported by the operating system platform where it is running
Last modified date: 05/28/2020