The Sun Connection 1.1 installer may fail to start on S/390X (64-bit) platforms.
The installer uses an application which was compiled for S/390 32-bit and will crash if 32-bit libraries on which it depends are not present. Although this issue has only been seen on RedHat distros, it may also happen on SuSE 9.
Install 32-bit versions of these packages:
ncurses-5.4-13.s390.rpm
zlib-1.2.1.2-1.s390.rpm