March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
808 pages
17h 10m
English
book
IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook
by Rufus Credle, Faheem Altaf, Serena Chan, Fernanda Gomes, Sunil Hiranniah, Pralhad Khatri, Shun Zhong Li, Vikrant Mastoli
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Chapter 3. WebSphere Portal V5 prerequisites and planning 53
Software requirements
SUSE SLES for s/390 7 or 8 Kernel 2.4
IBM HTTP Server V1.3.26
IBM DB2 Universal Database™ V8.1 + Fix Pack 1
IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.0 + Fix Pack 1
IBM WebSphere Portal Enable 5.0
IBM Directory Server V5.1
3.4 Planning for the database
In WebSphere Portal, the database is used to store information. During the
installation, Cloudscape is used as the default database. But this database is for
testing and demonstration only. In the production environment, for example,
where a clustering environment exist, a robust database must be used.
Following are some robust databases which WebSphere Portal supports:
IBM DB2
DB2 for OS/390 and z/OS
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