System Requirements

Before installing Adaptive Server version 15.7 SP100, ensure that your system is updated with the latest patches and system requirements. Do not use a patch that is earlier than the version suggested for your operating system. Use the patch recommended by the operating system vendor, even if it supersedes the patch listed.

To list all currently installed patches and display the operating system version level, enter:
rpm -q -a

Linux Requirements

Adaptive Server supports Pentium and higher chip sets.

Operating System Requirements for Linux
Hardware Operating system Recommended RAM
x86_64 processor (AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon with EM64T) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)
  • kernel-2.6.18-194.el5
  • glibc-2.5-49
  • compat-glibc-2.3.4-2.26
 At least 1GB
x86_64 processor (Intel Xeon with EM64T) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)
  • kernel-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64
  • glibc-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64
  • compat-glibc-2.5-46.2.x86_64
 1GB
x86_64 processor (AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon with EM64T) SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64); version 11 patch level 0:
  • kernel-2.6.27.19-5.1
  • glibc-2.9-13.2
 1GB
Linux requires these additional files:
Required FilesDescription
Required libraries for Linux
  • openmotif-2.3.1-2.el5
  • libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5
  • libXt-1.0.2-3.1.fc6
  • libXtst-1.0.1-3.1
  • libXi-1.6.1-1
  • libXmu-1.0.2-5
  • libXext-1.0.1-2.1
  • libSM-1.0.1-3.1
  • libICE-1.0.1-2.1
  • libX11-1.0.3-9.el5
Required X/Motif-related RPM package manager files
  • libXtst-devel
  • libXi-devel
  • openmotif-devel
  • libXmu-devel
  • libXt-devel
  • libXext-devel
  • libXp-devel
  • libX11-devel
  • libSM-devel
  • libICE-devel
These files should be compatible with RHEL5.3 or later.

In addition, there is a known OS kernel bug in scheduling threads in RHEL 6.0 that has been fixed in RHEL 6.1; for this reason, SAP recommends that you use 6.1.

Linux 64-bit x64 system memory requirements are:
  • Minimum RAM required for Adaptive Server, with default stack size, packet size, and user log cache size – 127 MB
  • Minimum RAM per additional user – approximately 324KB
  • Default user stack size – 128KB
Linux Disk Space Requirements
Product Linux X64 Requirements Linux X64 PSeries Requirements
Adaptive Server typical installation 921MB 1092MB
Default databases created during installation 306MB 164MB
Total 1071MB 1256MB

Before you can install a 64-bit Adaptive Server version 15.7 ESD #2 to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x x86_64, install the 32-bit GNU C Libraries package (glibc-2.xx-x.xx.el6.i686.rpm).

To run the installer in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, install the appropriate RPM package:
Operating System Language RPM Package
RedHat 5.x Chinese fonts-chinese
  Japanese fonts-japanese
  Korean fonts-korean
SuSE 10.x Traditional Chinese ttf-founder-traditional
  Japanese sazanami-fonts
  Korean baekmuk-ttf

Ensure that you have the required operating system patches for the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 7.

Information about the required operating system patches is available from http://www.java.com/en/download/help/linux_install.xml.