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Certification Information
10g Release 3 (10.1.3.4.1)
E12692-06
July 2009
This document outlines the certified hardware and software configurations for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.4.1).
Information for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.2) and 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.2.1) can be found at the following location (please copy and paste the URL into your browser):
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/oracle_bi_publisher_certification.pdf
Information for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.3.3) can be found at the following location (please copy and paste the URL into your browser):
The PDF version of this document can be obtained on Oracle Technology Network from the BI Publisher documentation library at the following location (please copy and paste the URL into your browser):
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bi_pub.html
This document contains the following topics:
This section contains certification information for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher. The following topics are covered:
The automated installer for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher provides both basic and advanced installation options. The basic installation installs a stand alone OC4J that is provided solely for the purpose of running Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher. The advanced installation installs Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher into an existing Oracle Application Server.
Manual installation to non-Oracle application servers or to Oracle Application Server is documented in the Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Installation Guide.
Table 1 lists the Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher support information for the components required to run the BI Publisher server.
In general, Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher server can be run in any J2EE application server that supports Java 5.0 (JDK 1.5) or Java 6.0 (JDK 1.6). Java application servers support a wide range of operating systems, processors and bus architectures. Please refer to the support and certification documentation of the J2EE application server vendor to determine which platforms and processor architectures are supported.
Please see Databases Certified for BI Publisher Data Access for the list of databases that have been certified as data sources for BI Publisher. See Databases Certified for the BI Publisher Scheduler for the list of databases that have been certified for the BI Publisher scheduler.
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IMPORTANT: Not all of the combinations in the following table have been tested and certified. |
Table 1 Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Server Supported Components
| Operating System Name and Version | JavaSupport | Web Server | Database | Can be Used as Datasource? | Can be Used for Scheduler ? |
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Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat 4.x Red Hat 5.0 Novell SUSE 9.x IBM AIX 5.2 IBM AIX 5.3 IBM AIX 6 HP-UX 11.11 PA-RISC 64 bit HP-UX 11.23 PA-RISC 64 bit HP-UX 11.23 Itanium 64 bit HP-UX 11.31 Itanium 64 bit Solaris 9 Solaris 10 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (SP4) Microsoft Windows 2003 Server R2 Microsoft Windows 2003 Server SP1 Microsoft Windows 2008 Server Mac OS XFoot 1 |
Java 5.0 (1.5) Java 6.0 (1.6) |
Oracle Application Server OC4J/HTTP Server version 10.1.3.1 Oracle Application Server 10.1.3.4 Oracle WebLogic Server 9.2 Oracle WebLogic Server 10 Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 Apache Tomcat 5.5.x IBM Websphere 6.1 Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 JBoss 4.0 |
Oracle 9i Enterprise Server |
Y |
Y |
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Oracle 10g Enterprise Server |
Y |
Y |
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Oracle 11g Enterprise Server |
Y |
Y |
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IBM DB2 v8 for z/OS (NFM) |
Y |
N |
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IBM DB2 v9 for z/OS (NFM) |
Y |
N |
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IBM DB2 for UDB EE 8.2, 9.5 |
Y |
Y |
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IBM DB2 v9 |
Y |
Y |
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Informix 9.4, 10.0 |
Y |
N |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 |
Y |
Y |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 |
Y |
Y |
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MySQL 4.1, 5.0 |
Y |
Y |
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NCR Teradata V2R5.1.x |
N |
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NCR Teradata V2R6.0 |
N |
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NCR Teradata V2R6.1 |
N |
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NCR Teradata V2R6.2 |
N |
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NCR Teradata 12 |
N |
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Netezza 4.0, 4.5 |
Y |
N |
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RPAS 13.0.1 int1 |
Y |
N |
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Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 |
Y |
Y |
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Sybase IQ 12 |
Y |
N |
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TimesTen 7 |
Y |
N |
Footnote 1 Only manual deployments are supported for the Mac OS X platform.
Footnote 2 NCR Teradata is not supported with the following Web servers: Oracle Application Server OC4J 10.1.3.1 or Apache Tomcat 5.x.
The following table lists the databases and connectivity sofware that have been tested and certified by Oracle for use as data sources for Oracle BI Publisher.
Note that starting with release 10.1.3.3.3 the DataDirect Connect JDBC drivers are packaged with Oracle BI Publisher. See the Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Administrator's and Developer's Guide for more information.
Table 2 Databases and Connectivity Software Certified for Data Access
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Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g |
Oracle Native JDBC driver |
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IBM DB2 for UDB EE 8.2, 9.5 |
DataDirect JDBC Driver IBM Native JDBC Driver |
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IBM DB2 v9 |
DataDirect JDBC Driver |
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Informix IDS 9.4, 10.0 |
Informix Native JDBC Driver |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 |
DataDirect JDBC Driver |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 |
DataDirect JDBC Driver |
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MySQL 4.1, 5.0 |
MySQL Native JDBC Driver |
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NCR Teradata V2R5.1.xFoot 1 |
Teradata Native JDBC Driver |
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NCR Teradata V2R6.2Footref 1 |
Teradata Native JDBC Driver |
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NCR Teradata 12.0Footref 1 |
Teradata Native JDBC Driver |
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Netezza 4.0, 4.5 |
Netezza Native JDBC Driver |
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RPAS 13.0.1 int1 |
RPAS Native JDBC Driver |
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Sybase Adaptive Server 15 |
Sybase Native JDBC Driver |
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Sybase IQ 12 |
Sybase Native JDBC Driver |
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TimesTen 7 |
TimesTen Native JDBC Driver |
Footnote 1 NCR Teradata is not supported with the following Web servers: Oracle Application Server OC4J 10.1.3.1 or Apache Tomcat 5.x.
The following table lists the multidimensional data sources supported by Oracle BI Publisher.
The following table lists the databases and connectivity software that have been tested and certified by Oracle for use with the BI Publisher scheduler.
Note that starting with release 10.1.3.3.3 the DataDirect Connect JDBC drivers are packaged with Oracle BI Publisher. See the Oracle Business Intelligence Administrator's and Developer's Guide for more information.
Table 4 Databases and Connectivity Software Certified for the BI Publisher Scheduler
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Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g |
Oracle Native JDBC driver |
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IBM DB2 for UDB EE 8.2, 9.5 |
DataDirect JDBC Driver |
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IBM DB2 v9 |
DataDirect JDBC Driver |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 |
DataDirect JDBC Driver |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 |
DataDirect JDBC Driver |
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Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 |
DataDirect JDBC Driver |
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MySQL 4.1, 5.0 |
MySQL Native JDBC Driver |
BI Publisher leverages the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) for Identity Management support. JNDI supports version 2 and version 3 of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Refer to the following Web sites for more information about JNDI and LDAP:
http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jndi/jndi-ldap.html
The Identity Management applications listed in Table 5 have been certified with Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Enterprise:
Table 6 and Table 7 list the Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher client certification information.
Table 6 Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Client Certification
| Operating System | Supported Browsers | Publisher Desktop Support | Additional Information (See Table 7) |
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Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 Red Hat 4.x SUSE 9.x Mac OS X |
Firefox 1.5.x, 2.0 |
Not supported |
3 |
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Microsoft Windows 2003 Server R2 (32 bit) Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or higher Microsoft Vista |
Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0 Firefox 1.5.x, 2.0, 3.0 |
Template Builder Add-in for Microsoft Word (Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003, Word 2007) Excel Analyzer Add-in for Microsoft Excel (Excel 2000, Excel 2002, Excel 2003, Excel 2007) |
1,2,3 |
Table 7 Additional Information for Oracle Business Intelligence Client Certification
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Excel Add-in for Microsoft Excel requires Microsoft .Net 2.0. |
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Template Builder Add-in for Microsoft Word requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5 or later and Microsoft .Net 2.0. |
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Microsoft PowerPoint output is supported/certified for PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007. |
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