Before you install Connect on your system, ensure that the following are available:
- Connect software: This is generally shipped downloaded from Precisely’s web site as a self-extracting executable file (Windows) or a tar file (UNIX).
- Connect license key: License keys are sent via e-mail as an attachment file called DMExpressLicense.txt. If you need specific system information to obtain a license key, refer to the section below on Getting Connect License Information.
If you have a Connect server license key and plan to install Connect installation components, the type of user required for your setup depends on whether you extend impersonation privileges. See Connect installation user setup considerations topic below.
Operating Systems
The following contains the supported systems and system requirements.
| Operating System | System requirements |
|---|---|
| AIX 6.1 Power 64-bit | IBM System p servers running AIX 6.1, technology level 9 or higher, in 64 bit mode. |
| HP-UX 11.31 IA64 64-bit | Intel Itanium2 systems running HP-UX 11.31 and higher in 64 bit mode. |
| Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 64-bit | Intel-compatible x86_64 systems running Linux in 64 bit mode. C library version 2.12 and higher; kernel version 2.6.32 and higher; (Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 and higher; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1 and higher). |
| SunOS 5.10 SPARC 64-bit | Sun SPARC systems running SunOS 5.10/Solaris 10 U8 and higher in 64 bit mode. |
| Windows x86 32-bit | Intel or AMD systems running 32 or 64 bit version of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x, Windows 10 or Windows Server 2008, 2012, or 2012 R2. |
| Windows x64 64-bit | Intel EM64T or AMD64 systems running 64 bit version of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x, Windows 10 or Windows Server 2008, 2012, or 2012 R2. |
- On Windows and UNIX/Linux systems, Connect requires Java runtime version 11.
- Connect for Big Data requires JDK 11.
- Connect Sort does not use Java.
Communication security protocol:
- On Windows and UNIX/Linux systems, Connect supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) up to and including TLS version 1.2.
- Sufficient privileges to install and start Windows Services for Windows platforms and root privileges to install and start UNIX daemons on UNIX platforms. An umask setting of 022 is required so that other users can run the installed executables. The installation procedure sets and resets umask if required.
- If you want to use PAM for authentication on UNIX or Linux platforms, PAM must be installed and configured on the system.
- If you want Connect to access data in database tables (either as data source or target), then the appropriate database client software must be on the system and accessible via the appropriate shared library or dynamic link library (dll) paths.
For example, to access an Oracle database, Oracle Client must be installed on the system where you run Connect; to access a database via ODBC, an ODBC data source must be defined on the system where you run Connect.
For details on how to connect to a specific Database Management System (DBMS), refer to the section Connecting to Databases from Connect.
- If you want Connect to access data in a message queue, then the appropriate message queue client software must be on the system and accessible via the appropriate shared library or dynamic link library (dll) paths.
For example, to access an IBM WebSphere MQ queue, IBM WebSphere MQ client must be installed on the system where you run Connect.
For details on how to connect to a specific message queue type, refer to the section Connecting to Message Queues from Connect.
- If you want Connect to access data in an SAP system, then the appropriate SAP client software must be installed on the system where you run Connect and accessible via the appropriate shared library or dynamic link library (dll) paths. For details on how to connect to an SAP system, refer to the section Connecting to SAP from Connect.
- If you want Connect to access data in a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), or you want to run Connect for Big Data ETL MapReduce jobs, then a Hadoop distribution configured to access the cluster must be installed on the edge/ETL node from which you run Connect. For details on how to connect to HDFS, refer to the section Connecting to HDFS from Connect.
- If you want Connect to access data using a Connect:Direct connection, a Connect:Direct server and client (CLI/API) must be installed on the system where you run Connect and must be configured to access the required Connect:Direct nodes. For details on how to connect to a Connect:Direct node, refer to Connecting to Connect:Direct nodes from Connect.
- Connect supports QlikView data eXchange (QVX) files as targets. To access QVX files as sources from QlikView or Qlik Sense, refer to Connecting to QlikView data eXchange files from QlikView or Qlik Sense.
- Connect supports Tableau Data Extract (TDE) files as targets. To access TDE files as sources from Tableau, refer to Connecting to Tableau Data Extract files from Tableau.