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Siebel Installation Guide for UNIX: Servers, Mobile Web Clients, Tools covers the installation of all essential core products for Siebel Business Applications or Siebel Industry Applications, including servers, Siebel Mobile Web Clients, Siebel Tools, Reports Server, and other modules.

What's New in the Siebel Installation Guide for UNIX: Servers, Mobile Web Clients, Tools, Version 7.8, Rev. A

Table 1 lists changes in this version of the documentation to support release 7.8 of the software.

Table 1. New Product Features in Siebel Installation Guide for UNIX, Version 7.8, Rev. A
Topic	Description
Creating the Siebel Installation Image on the Network Installing the Siebel Web Server Extension System Requirements and Supported Platforms on Siebel SupportWeb	Web server platform support changes for Siebel Business Applications: IBM HTTP Server support on Linux servers has been withdrawn. (This platform was documented in the previous 7.8 version of this guide.)
About Installing in Upgrade Environments	Added new topic.
Planning RDBMS Installation and Configuration	Updated topic.
Specifying the Locale for Siebel Applications	Added new topic.
Guidelines for Setting DB2 UDB Configuration Parameters	Updated the descriptions and recommendations for the parameters `ESTORE_SEG_SZ` and `NUM_ESTORE_SEGS` for DB2 UDB databases.
Guidelines for Configuring Settings in the init.ora File	Updated descriptions and recommendations for several parameters for Oracle databases.
Siebel Server Installation Requirements	For AIX, added mention of X11 filesets requirement (removed mention from Siebel Gateway Name Server installation chapter).
Preparing to Run Siebel Server Components After Installing	Added topic to consolidate new and existing information related to running Siebel Server components.
"Setting the Siebel Server Locale"	Deleted obsolete topic from Siebel Server installation chapter. Information is now found in other topics.
Installing the Siebel Database Server and Configuring the Siebel Database	Updated several topics in this chapter and modified the chapter structure. For example: Added information about which topics apply in upgrade scenarios. "Installing Multilingual Seed Data for the Siebel Database" has been removed. This add language scenario is now addressed in the topic Installing the Siebel Database Components. "Importing a New Language to the Repository" has been removed. This add language scenario is now addressed in the topic Importing the Siebel Repository for the Siebel Database.
About Customizing the Siebel Client Installer	Added new topic.
Verifying ODBC Data Sources for the Siebel Mobile Web Client and Developer Web Client	Updated topic.
Defining the External Host and Symbolic URLs	Added new procedure for configuring symbolic URLs to use HTTPS.
Verifying Your Server Environment	Updated several topics in this chapter about using the Environment Verification Tool (EVT).

What's New in the Siebel Installation Guide for UNIX: Servers, Mobile Web Clients, Tools, Version 7.8

Table 2 lists changes in this version of the documentation to support release 7.8 of the software.

Table 2. New Product Features in Siebel Installation Guide for UNIX, Version 7.8
Topic	Description
System Requirements and Supported Platforms on Siebel SupportWeb	UNIX operating system platform support changes for Siebel Business Applications: Sun Solaris 8 is no longer supported
Configuring the RDBMS Installing the Siebel Database Server and Configuring the Siebel Database System Requirements and Supported Platforms on Siebel SupportWeb	RDBMS platform support changes for Siebel Business Applications: Oracle 8i is no longer supported; Oracle 10g is now supported IBM DB2 UDB V7 is no longer supported
Planning RDBMS Installation and Configuration	IBM DB2 UDB for z/OS and OS/390 is now referred to as IBM DB2 UDB for z/OS.
Creating the Siebel Installation Image on the Network Installing the Siebel Web Server Extension System Requirements and Supported Platforms on Siebel SupportWeb	Web server platform support changes for Siebel Business Applications: IBM HTTP Server is now supported on Linux servers as well as on AIX. Siebel Web Server Extension (SWSE) is now supported on Linux, to work with this Web server. (As noted in Table 1, support on Linux servers has now been withdrawn.)
Creating the Siebel Installation Image on the Network Installation procedures in multiple chapters	Product files to be installed are delivered as compressed JAR files (rather than ZIP or TAR). The Siebel Image Creator utility creates network images from these JAR files. Installations must be performed from network images; direct installation from DVD is no longer supported. (ChartWorks Server is installed from TAR files, but these files are packaged using JAR files.)
About Installing Siebel Releases	Where available, three-digit releases such as 7.8.2 (for example) can now be installed as full installations. Alternatively, such a release can also be installed as a patch (maintenance release) to an existing installation of a prior version in the same series.
About Installing Siebel Releases Maintenance Release Guide for the release to be installed as a patch	Patch installations can now be chained to base installs (or other patch installs) by configuring slipstream patch installation.
Installing Multiple Instances of Siebel Business Applications SWSE Installation Requirements	Multiple instance support for Siebel Web Server Extension (SWSE) is now provided. Some configuration is required to support multiple instances of SWSE.
Installing Siebel Mobile Web Clients	The Siebel Dedicated Web Client has been renamed the Siebel Developer Web Client. This client type is now supported only for development, troubleshooting, and limited administration usage scenarios.