API system hardware and software requirements

The system requirements of the API client development platforms on Windows and UNIX platforms are described in Table 11.

Table 11. API client development platforms
Platform Supported versions
Windows version Windows 2000 SP3 and Windows 2003 on Pentium or better, or equivalent computers
Solaris Operating System version Sun Solaris Operating System 8 and 9 (SUN OS 5.8 and 5.9) on Sun SPARC or ULTRASPARC computers
AIX version AIX 5L (V5.1 and V5.2) on PowerPC computers, including RS/6000

Excluding AIX 5L ML1 and ML4

HP-UX version HP-UX 11.0 and 11i on PA-RISC computers
Linux version Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 for Intel Microprocessor based computers
RAM
  • 64 MB RAM (128 or more MB recommended) for Windows
  • Physical memory: 64 MB (256 MB recommended) for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux

Swap space: At least two times the amount of physical memory is recommended when physical memory is less than .5 GB. Contact your system administrator or hardware vendor for optimum swap configuration.

Disk Space
  • 15 MB for 32-bit DB2 OLAP Server API on Windows XP and Windows 2000
  • 14 MB for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux