The SAP JVM requires specific operating system versions, additional libraries and library patches.
Find below the list of minimum requirements for the operating system versions. Required additional libraries and library patches are listed as well.
Windows (all processor platforms)
- Windows-based systems require the installation of the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package", which can be obtained from the Microsoft website.
Windows (x86)
- Minimum OS versions
Windows Server 2003 (SP 2)
Windows XP (SP 2)
Windows (X64, x86_64)
- Minimum OS versions (for recommended service packs see note 30478)
Windows Server 2003 (SP 2)
Windows XP (SP 2)
Windows (IA64)
- Minimum OS versions (for recommended service packs see note 30478)
Windows Server 2003 (SP 2)
Linux (all processor platforms)
- Minimum OS versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5 (RHEL 4.5)
(more installation information is available in the notes 722273 (RHEL 4), 1048303 (RHEL 5) and 1496410 (RHEL 6))
Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
(more installation information is available in the notes 797084 (SLES 9), 958253 (SLES 10) and 1310037 (SLES 11))
- Required additional libraries
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 only:
(rpm packages): libstdc++-4.1, libgcc-4.1 (see note 1021236 for details)
AIX
- Minimum OS version
For SAP JVM 5.1 and 6.1: AIX 5.3
For SAP JVM 4.1: AIX 5.3 TL 9
- Required library patches
AIX 5.x: xlC.aix50.rte and xlC.rte >= 8.0.0.5
AIX 6.x: xlC.aix61.rte and xlC.rte >= 9.0.0.1
- Required filesets when using graphical user interfaces, e.g. SAP installation or upgrade tools. The fileset names are those for AIX 6.1, names for other AIX versions may vary slightly.
X11.adt.bitmaps
X11.adt.imake
X11.adt.include
X11.adt.lib
X11.base.common
X11.base.lib
X11.base.rte
X11.base.smt
X11.base.xpconfig
X11.fnt.coreX
X11.fnt.defaultFonts
X11.fnt.iso1
X11.fnt.iso_
X11.motif.lib
X11.motif.mwm
X11.vsm.lib
X11.Dt.rtebos.rte.X11
- For the U.S. English locale following filesets are required
X11.loc.en_US.base.lib
X11.loc.en_US.base.rte
X11.msg.en_US.adt.imake
X11.msg.en_US.base.common
X11.msg.en_US.base.rte
X11.msg.en_US.motif.lib
X11.msg.en_US.motif.mwm
X11.msg.en_US.vsm.rte
IBM i
- Minimum OS version
IBM i 5.4 (former V5R4)
Solaris (SPARC64)
- Minimum OS version
Solaris 9
- Required library patches
Solaris 9:
- C++ Shared library patch: 111711-12, 111712-12
- Patches recommended in note 550585 and 1109536
Solaris 10:
- C++ Shared library patch: 119963-04
- Patches recommended in note 832871 and 1109536
Solaris (X64)
- Minimum OS versio
Solaris 10
- Required library patch
C++ Shared library patch: 119964-04
Patches recommended in note 908334 and 1109536
HP-UX (all processor platforms)
- Please make sure your HP-UX system has installed all patches described in section: "SAP systems running kernel release 720" SAP note 837670.
- Please make sure you have the correct version of the SAP Startup Framework installed, see note 1136099 for details
- For HP-UX kernel parameter recommendations see note 172747.
HP-UX (PA-RISC64)
- Minimum OS version
HP-UX 11.11
HP-UX (IA64)
- Minimum OS version
HP-UX 11.23
- SAP JVM 5.1 patch level 57 or newer especially requires the following HP-UX patches (also mentioned in note 837670):
PHSS_38138 or newer (HP-UX 11.23)
PHSS_38139 or newer (HP-UX 11.31)
- All SAP JVM versions on HP-UX 11.31 require in addition to above the following HP-UX patch:
PHKL_40208 (HP-UX 11.31)