3 Requirements

The Oracle Procedural Gateway Visual Workbench for WebSphere MQ is used with the Oracle Procedural Gateway for message queuing products. This release supports release 10.2 of the Oracle Procedural Gateway for WebSphere MQ. For more information, see the Oracle Procedural Gateway for WebSphere MQ Installation and User's Guide for Microsoft Windows for your platform.

This release supports automatic data conversion between only two types of application, Oracle PL/SQL applications and IBM VS/COBOLII applications. You can add other data conversions manually.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Hardware Requirements
Software Requirements

3.1 Hardware Requirements

The hardware requirements are described in this section.

3.1.1 Processor

An Intel Pentium III processor is required.

3.1.2 Memory

A minimum of 128 MB memory is required. 256 MB of memory is recommended.

3.1.3 Disk Space

The PG4MQ Visual Workbench requires 300 MB (one Visual Workbench per developer).

3.2 Software Requirements

The system software configuration described in these requirements is supported by Oracle as long as the underlying system software products are supported by their respective vendors. Verify the latest support status with your system software vendors.

3.2.1 PG4MQ Visual Workbench Components

The PG4MQ Visual Workbench development environment has two components:

Visual Workbench (client and server)
Visual Workbench repository

You install the PG4MQ Visual Workbench on your Microsoft Windows (32-bit) workstation.

The PG4MQ Visual Workbench repository may reside on a different platform than the PG4MQ Visual Workbench.

Caution:

Before using the Visual Workbench for development, ensure that the repository exists.

3.2.2 Operating System

Microsoft Windows (32-bit) is required.

3.2.3 Oracle Procedural Gateway

This release supports release 10.2 of the Oracle Procedural Gateway for WebSphere MQ. For more information, see the gateway installation guide for your platform.

3.2.4 Oracle Server

An Oracle server is required to use the gateway and the PG4MQ Visual Workbench. For more information, refer to the gateway installation guide for your platform.

3.2.5 File Transfer

PG4MQ Visual Workbench requires a file transfer product (such as FTP) capable of moving files between systems.