Application Server Requirements

Requirements for Application Server Installed on a Microsoft Windows Server

To install and run Application Server on a Microsoft Windows server, you need the following:

One or more Gigabytes of disk space depending on the size and number of dimensional models
A network card supported by your Microsoft Windows server
TCP/IP protocol transport installed
A supported Microsoft Windows server. For more information, see the Product Availability Matrix at http://support.sap.com/pam. Search on Strategy Management. In the Strategy Management PAM, choose Operating Systems, and then choose Application Server.
Oracle, SQL Server, or IBM DB2 Universal Database Workgroup database service. One of these database systems is required if reading in data from a relational database management system. If you are reading in data from text files, no database systems are required.
The system locale of the Windows server (Language for non-Unicode programs) should be set to the language that will be used for dimension and measure names in your Application Server model. If this does not match, Cube Builder and Entry and Approval may not function properly. The system locale is defined in the Region and Language option of Control Panel.

Requirements for Application Server Installed on a Linux/UNIX Server

To install and run Application Server on Linux/UNIX, you need the following:

One or more Gigabytes of disk space depending on the size and number of dimensional models
A supported Linux/UNIX servers. For more information, see the Product Availability Matrix at http://support.sap.com/pam. Search on Strategy Management. In the Strategy Management PAM, choose Operating Systems, and then choose Application Server.
Oracle, SQL Server, or IBM DB2 Universal Database Workgroup database service. One of these database systems is required if reading in data from a relational database management system. If you are reading in data from text files, no database systems are required.

Note
If you are connecting to Oracle from the Access LSLink subsystem of Application Server, you must have the Oracle client software installed on your machine. Contact your Oracle system administrator for details.

Requirements for Application Server Installed on a Microsoft Windows Client

To install and run Application Server on a Microsoft Windows client, you need a supported version of Microsoft Windows. For more information, see the Product Availability Matrix at http://support.sap.com/pam Information published on SAP site . Search on Strategy Management. In the Strategy Management PAM, choose Operating Systems, and then choose Administrator Application.