Hardware & Software Requirements

 

As ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6 is a workstation application, consideration should be given to the type of workstation, operating systems, amount of disk space and real memory required, supported relational databases, and recommended software levels. These prerequisites are outlined below. Depending on the implementation, use of a license management tool, such as IBM License Use Management (LUM), may be required.

 

Hardware Requirements Software Requirements
DBMS DBMS

 

IMPORTANT

The supply of Dassault Systèmes support service for its software products is conditioned upon the third party vendor maintenance and support policy (including, but not limited to, the lifecycle policy) for the Dassault Systèmes software product prerequisite platform(s)* and/or configuration(s)**.

In the event of any disruption, modification or discontinuation in the third party vendor maintenance and support lifecycle policy for the Dassault Systèmes software product prerequisite platform(s)* and/or configuration(s)**, Dassault Systèmes reserves the right, at its own discretion:

  • to end support services for Dassault Systèmes software, or
  • to ask the customer to upgrade or change one or more of these Dassault Systèmes software product prerequisite platform(s)* and/or configuration(s)** in order for Dassault Systèmes to continue to provide support services for its software.

In any and all cases, Dassault Systèmes has no obligation and no responsibility to provide maintenance and support service on third party platforms* and/or configurations**. The customer remains solely responsible for the choice, deployment and use of any third party platforms* and/or configurations**.

 

Definitions:

* Platform: a hardware architecture or a software framework enabling Dassault Systèmes products to run. Platforms can include one or more of the following components:

  • hardware architecture
  • operating system (including national language parameter settings)
  • programming languages and frameworks
  • runtime libraries
  • application servers
  • databases
  • other middleware

** Configuration: a defined set of components with specified versions or version ranges of such components enabling the Dassault Systèmes products to run. This set of components depends on the architecture (client, server...).

 

Hardware Requirements

IBM Environment

Processor Requirements
  • ENOVIAVPM may be used on any RS/6000, based on PowerPC 604 (166 MHz minimum clock speed), Power4 or Power5 processor families, supported on AIX Version 5.3 ML03, provided that requirements described below are met.

 

Required Processor Components and Features
  • Real Memory: A minimum of 256 MB of real memory is required.

  • A CD-ROM drive for program installation.

Installation of ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6 for IBM RS/6000 requires an internal or external CD-ROM drive. This drive requires a SCSI High-Performance Input/Output (I/O) Controller, which is either standard or an optional feature (depending on the RS/6000 model).

A CD-ROM drive is required to view the on-line documentation in HTML format.

Product documentation explains installation on other network-connected RS/6000 machines after the initial installation with the drive.

  • Direct Access Storage: ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6 licensed programs and configurations, user data and user programs may be stored on any internal or external Direct Access Storage Devices (DASD) supported by the RS/6000.

The following DASD requirements are approximate:

  • All installed products of ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6: 700MB + usage environment.

  • Unload + configuration: 500MB
    Administration: 22MB

  • Minimum Paging Space: 256 MB

 

Optional Components and Features Locally-attached plotters:

ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6 directly supports locally attached IBM color pen plotters and can be used with other OEM plotters. (Refer to the Software Requirements for AIX section for more details).

  • The following plotter/printer languages are supported:
    • CGM-ISO, ATA, CALS
    • Hewlett Packard HP-GL/2-RTL and HP-GL or IBM-GL subsets
    • OCE Graphics GPR50: VDF plotting routines
    • PostScript

Note: Customers should contact the appropriate plotter vendor for plotter connection and technical support.

 

Configuration Requirements

 

All following components are required:
  • RS/6000
  • Graphics device adapter
  • Color graphics display
  • Keyboard
  • 3-button mouse
  • for installation only: CD-ROM drive

 

Required Processor Components and Features Graphics devices (one of the following):
  • POWER GXT500P 12-Bit and GXT550P 24-Bit (feature numbers 2854 and 2855)
  • POWER GXT800P 24-Bit and GXT800M 24-Bit (feature number 2853 or 2859 and 2850)
  • POWER GXT2000P
  • POWER GXT3000P (feature number 2825)
  • POWER GXT4000P
  • POWER GXT4500P
  • POWER GXT6000P
  • POWER GXT6500P

Note: Other adapters are not supported by ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6. Although this product might run with other adapters, incidents encountered that are specific to other adapters will not be accepted for analysis or correction.

 

Required components and features
  • Three-button mouse (feature number 6041)
  • Alphanumeric keyboard
  • Display: one display compatible with the graphics devices is listed.

 

HP Environment

Processor Requirements Any B-Class, C-Class or J-Class workstation based on a PA8000 processor family, supported under HP-UX 11.11 (HP-UX 11i Dec 2004), provided that the requirements described below are met.

Required Processor Components and Features
  • Real Memory: A minimum of 256 MB of real memory is required.
  • An internal or external CD-ROM drive is required for program installation.

This equipment is required to perform an initial installation. Product documentation explains installation on other network-connected HP workstations after the initial installation with the drive.

A CD-ROM drive is required to view the online documentation in HTML format.

  • Disk space: ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6 licensed programs and configurations, user data, and user programs may be stored on any internal or external disk by the HP workstation.

Approximate disk space requirements are as follows:

  • All installed products of ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6: 700 MB + usage environment

  • Unload + configuration: 600MB
    Administration: 25MB

  • Minimum swap space: 256 MB

 

Configuration Requirements

 

All the following components are required:
  • HP Workstation Processor
  • Graphics card
  • Color graphics display
  • Keyboard
  • 3-button mouse
  • For installation only: CD-ROM

 

Required Processor Components and Features Graphics cards:
  • VISUALIZE FXE
  • VISUALIZE FX2
  • VISUALIZE FX4
  • VISUALIZE FX5
  • VISUALIZE FX6
  • VISUALIZE FX10
  • Fire GL-UX
  • Fire GL T2-128
  • Fire GL X1
  • Fire GL X3

 

Peripheral requirements Two types of connectors can be used for a peripheral component:
  • HP-HIL connector
  • Serial connector

 

Required components and features
  • Three-button mouse (A2839B or A2838A)
  • Alphanumeric keyboard
  • One display compatible with the graphics cards listed above

 

Sun Environment

Processor Requirements
  • Any Ultra1, Ultra2, Ultra10, Ultra30, Ultra60, Ultra80, SUN Blade 100, SUN Blade 150, SUN Blade 1000, SUN Blade 1500, SUN Blade 2000, SUN Blade 2500 or SUN Blade 1500+ (1.5GHz)workstation based on UltraSPARC processor, supported on Solaris 10.03/05, provided that requirements described below are met.

 

Required Processor Components and Features
  • Real Memory: A minimum of 256 MB of real memory is required.
  • A CD-ROM drive is required for program installation; this drive must be compatible with the following Sun models:

Product documentation explains installation on other network-connected SUN machines after the initial installation with CD drive.

A CD-ROM drive is required to view the on-line documentation in HTML format.

  • Disk space: ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6 licensed programs and configurations, user data and user programs may be stored on any internal or external disk by the SUN machines.

Approximate disk space requirements are as follows:

  • All installed products of ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6 solutions: 700 MB + usage environment

  •  Unload + configuration: 500MB
    Administration: 20MB

  • Minimum swap space: 256 MB

 

Configuration Requirements

 

All following components are required:
  • SUN workstation
  • Graphics card
  • Color graphics display
  • Keyboard
  • 3-button mouse
  • For installation only: CD-ROM drive

 

Required Processor Components and Features Graphic device adapter (one of the following):
  • Creator3D
  • Creator3D Series III
  • Elite3D model M3 for Ultra10 440MHz workstation
  • Elite3D model M3 and M6 for Ultra60 workstation
  • Expert3D
  • Expert3D-Lite
  • XVR-500
  • XVR-1000
  • XVR-1200
  • XVR-600 (Support of XVR-600 requires OpenGL 1.3)

 

Required components and Features
  • SUN three-button mouse
  • Alphanumeric keyboard
  • One display compatible with the graphics card listed above

 

 

Relational Database DASD Requirements

A relational database is required for proper operation of ENOVIAVPM V1.6.
A minimum of 700 MB of hard disk space is necessary for system installation. 150 MB should be available for database application and data files. Refer to the Software Requirements section for supported database products.

Compatibility
ENOVIAVPM provides a consistent user, database, and application programming interface. Data is compatible among the supported operating systems: AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris, and ENOVIAVPM is able to use and exchange data in industry-standard formats including STEP AP203 and AP214.

Performance Considerations
Performance and response time are influenced by several factors including processor and operating system, amount of system memory, channel speeds, the number, type, and organization of terminals, and the size of the data elements being used. ENOVIAVPM is designed for optimum benefit under all supported operating systems.

Software Requirements

The overall requirements for ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6 are identical to those described in the announcement letter for ENOVIAVPM Release 1, refer to Software Announcement 298-246, (RFA30344) dated July 7, 1998. CATIA and DELMIA plug-ins are supplied with the products and require no additional prerequisites. However, for CATIA Version 4, CDA and CDR must be separately installed. If ENOVIAVPM is used to manage CATIA Version 5 data only, there is no requirement to install CATIA Version 4.

CATIA Version 5 Release 17 is the minimum requested level for ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6 interoperability.

DELMIA Version 5 Release 17 is the minimum requested level for ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6 interoperability.

CATIA Version 4 Release 2.5 is the minimum requested level for ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 6 interoperability.

AIX Environment

AIX V5.3 Maintenance Level  3 (ML03) (using the 64-bit kernel) with the following components:

Additional support for AIX 6.1

Additional support for DB2 V9

Additional support for CAA for XLC/C++ compiler 7 and XLF compiler:

Additional support for DB2 UDB Version 9.5

Additional support for DB2 UDB Version 9.7

DBCS Support Requirements:   DBCS-enabled version of the operating system.

 

HP-UX Environment

HP-UX 11i (December 2004) support requires:

with the following patches applied:

Additional support for DB2 UDB Version 9.5

Additional support for DB2 UDB Version 9.7

DBCS Support Requirements:   DBCS-enabled version of the operating system.

 

Solaris Environment

Solaris 10 SPARC Operating System Release 03/05 no additional patches

Solaris 10 SPARC Operating System Release 05/08 no additional patches

Additional support for Solaris 10.6

DBCS Support Requirements:   DBCS-enabled version of the operating system

 

DBMS Requirements

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