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Supported Environments

This release of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence adds support for the following environments:

TypeItem

Operating systems

AIX 6.1

 Linux on zSeries
 

Linux RedHat Enterprise 5.0 AS

 

Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Data sources

IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services

 

IBM Cognos Now! cubes

 

TM1 with named level support

 

DB2 UDB 9.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

 

Netezza 4.5

 

NCR Teradata V2 R12

 

NCR Teradata via ODBC from Linux

 

Oracle 11G

 

Sybase IQ 12.7 ESD3

 

Unicode ODBC

Web servers

Microsoft IIS 7 (cgi and isapi)

 

Apache 2.2 Web Server

Application servers

Sun Java System Application Server 9.1

 

IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11.5

Portals

BEA Aqualogic User Interaction 6.5

 

IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0 and 6.1

Other

MS SharePoint Services Version 3 Service Pack 1

 

HP Neoview 2.3

 

DB2 UDB V6R1

 

Progress OpenEdge 10.1C

 

MS SQL Server 2008

 

IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ

 

DB2 Universal JDBC Driver

 

MS .NET Framework 3.5. SDK compatibility

 

Transformer 8 SAP BW fact support

 

Transformer 8 Excel 2007 support

 

Framework Manager support for Visual SourceSafe 2005

To review an up-to-date list of environments supported by IBM Cognos products, such as operating systems, patches, browsers, Web servers, directory servers, database servers, and application servers, visit the IBM Cognos Resource Center (http://www.ibm.com/software/data/support/cognos_crc.html).