Prerequisites and requirements

General requirements (for Scheduler and the Batch Processing Perl scripts)

  • Only Linux/Unix-based operating systems are supported but not Microsoft Windows.

Scheduler requirements

  • Java – see the compatibility guide [T Compatibility Guide] for supported Java versions.

  • JSVC [JSVC] needs to be installed if the service is to be run as a daemon.

Scheduler and Monitor requirements starting with ImageMaster 9.9.1

The Scheduler requires the following libraries that are no longer included in the Scheduler release package that is provided by T-Systems starting with ImageMaster 9.9.1. You must download the libraries yourself and copy them to the lib subfolder of the Scheduler installation:

  • Lanterna Java library version 2.1.9 for creating text-based GUIs on GitHub [GitHub Lanterna]

Database driver requirement

Starting with ImageMaster 9.9.1 some database drivers are no longer included in the release package and need to be obtained from the vendor:

  • Oracle

  • Microsoft SQL Server

Perl Batch Processing script requirements

  • There must be a version of Perl in the range 5.10 to 5.36 installed, preferably the current version of that range.

Supported databases

The following databases are supported with dedicated installation scripts (see chapter Installation):

  • Oracle

    The database connection must be configured in the file “tnsnames.ora”. Only this configuration file is needed, not a complete Oracle Client installation.

    CAUTION!
    Due to a known Oracle bug you must not use version 12.1 OJDBC drivers (like 12.1.0.1 or 12.1.0.2) but use any 18.3 driver instead.

    You can use a 12.2 driver on client side with a 12.1 database on server side according to [Oracle Support].

    For examples see appendix Oracle connection examples.

  • Microsoft SQL Server

  • PostgreSQL

  • Apache Derby (only for Scheduler and Monitor)

Apache Derby [Derby] cannot be used as the database for the ImageMaster Integration Service and no specific version is in the test and support scope of the standard product according to the compatibility guide for Derby. For the exact versions of the other database types that are also supported by the ImageMaster Integration Service, see the compatibility guide [T Compatibility Guide].