3.1Skills and prerequisites for installing, running WebSphere Application Server

This section outlines the skills you need for the installation and the prerequisites that must be in place before you start.

3.1.1 Skills

You must be familiar with the workstation, particularly with the operation of the keyboard and mouse. You should also be familiar with the following applications, which are used in the call.connect configuration. Although instructions are provided at each stage, a complete beginner may find the installation to be difficult and may need help from someone with more experience.

￿Windows NT Explorer

￿Notepad and Wordpad or other tool to edit files (for example, .bat and .xml files)

￿Client Access

￿MS-DOS

￿OS/400 commands

￿A Web browser (for example, Internet Explorer)

￿System21

In addition, you should also be familiar with:

￿WebSphere Application Server

￿CL programming on the iSeries

￿SQL

For straightforward configurations, you may be able to proceed regardless of your familiarity with these items.

3.1.2 Prerequisites

Before you install WebSphere Application Server, make sure that you have met all hardware and software prerequisites. The following sections list the iSeries hardware requirements, iSeries software requirements, workstation hardware requirements, and workstation software requirements.

For more information, see:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/software/websphere/wsappserver/docs/doc.htm

iSeries hardware requirements

Any of the following servers (recommended minimums) are required:

￿iSeries Model 170 with processor feature 2385

￿iSeries Model 720 with processor feature 2062

￿iSeries Model 270 with processor feature 2252

￿iSeries Model 820 with processor feature 2396

￿1 GB of memory (recommended minimum)

Note: You may use earlier systems than these recommended minimums in environments that support a limited number of users and where longer server initialization times can be tolerated.

Table 3-1lists the disk requirements.

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