Platform Requirements

SDL Contenta 5.6 + Contenta S1000D 5.6 - Windows App Server

This document provides a listing of required and optional software that must be obtained and installed prior to an SDL software installation, along with a listing of the software that will be installed automatically during the SDL software installation, on the specific machine identified.

SDL product

SDL Contenta 5.6 or SDL Contenta S1000D 5.6

Selected machine

an application server machine running

Prerequisite software

It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that the following software is obtained and installed on the system prior to the SDL software installation.

Operating system

Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 64-bit (recommended)

Additional packages Note: Package version numbers shown are the minimum versions required. Later versions of the packages can be used.

Microsoft Visual ++ 2015 Redistributable Package (x86) (update 3 RC or latest version)

Java

Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8.0_151, 32-bit (recommended) Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.7.0_80, 32-bit

Database client One of the following:

Oracle 12.1.0.2 32-bit client Note: Oracle 12.1.0.2 client can be used with Oracle 12.1.0.2 or 11.2.0.4 64-bit server, Enterprise or Standard Oracle 11.2.0.4 32-bit client (Deprecated) Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP1 32-bit client with ODBC driver, native client

Optional software

It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that the following optional software is obtained and installed on the system to use it with the SDL Product being installed. PDF viewer

To read product documentation on your machine, your machine requires Adobe Reader or an equivalent application for reading PDF documents.

Third-party software

The following third-party software is installed on the system as part of the SDL Product installation:

Perl - Strawberry Perl 5.26 (Windows)/ CPAN Perl 5.16 () Apache Solr 4.10.3 Reprise 12.2 Xerces-C++ 2.5.0 (Windows Only - Contenta Explorer)

Product version compatibility

The following tables show which products are compatible with one another.

Table 1. Contenta S1000D and LiveContent S1000D compatibility

MS Windows LiveContent S1000D Compatibility 5.2 (Retired) 5.3 (Retired) 5.4 (Retired) 5.5 (Mature) 5.6 (Active)

Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported

100 % Changes to Changes to Changes to Changes to 5.2 compatible support LCS 64- support LCS 64- support LCS 64- support LCS 64- (Retired) bit were made in bit were made in bit were made in bit were made in CaS 5.3 Publish. CaS 5.3 Publish. CaS 5.3 Publish. CaS 5.3 Publish.

Supported if CaS Supported May work if May work if May work if and LCS are both installed on the installed on the installed on the installed on 100 % same supported same supported same supported either an MS compatible O/S but not O/S but not O/S but not 5.3 Windows 2008 Qualified and Qualified and Qualified and (Retired) R2 64-bit or an Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported MS Windows 2012 R2 64-bit Server

Supported if CaS Supported Supported Supported if CaS Supported if CaS Contenta and LCS are both and LCS are both and LCS are both S1000D (CaS) installed on 100 % 100 % installed on an installed on an Server using either an MS compatible compatible MS Windows MS Windows S1000D 5.4 Windows 2008 2012 R2 64-bit 2012 R2 64-bit Publish Tool (Retired) R2 64-bit or an Server Server MS Windows 2012 R2 64-bit Server May work if Supported if CaS Supported if CaS Supported Supported installed on the and LCS are both and LCS are both 5.5 same supported installed on an installed on an 100 % 100 % (Mature) O/S but not MS Windows MS Windows compatible compatible Qualified and 2012 R2 64-bit 2012 R2 64-bit Not Supported Server Server

May work if Supported Supported Supported Supported installed on the 5.6 same supported 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % (Active) O/S but not compatible compatible compatible compatible Qualified and Not Supported

The S1000D Spec Issue version (e.g. Issue 4.2, Issue 4.1, Issue 4.0.2) must be supported in both CaS and LCS version releases to publish IETMs containing that Spec Issue version. Product Version Release Status as of December 2017 is noted in parentheses after version number. This matrix identifies which product versions have been qualified and supported on the same server at the time of that product version's release date. Releases that are now in the Retired category qualify only for limited technical assistance subject to the availability of trained personnel and resources. No further Service Packs or Hot Fixes will be issued for those releases.

Table 2. Contenta S1000D and XPP compatibility

MS Windows XPP Server Compatibility 9.1 (Retired) 9.2 (Mature) 9.3 (Active)

5.3 Supported if CaS and XPP are both Supported if CaS and XPP are both Not supported (Retired) installed on either an MS Windows installed on either an MS Windows 2008 R2 64-bit or an MS Windows 2008 R2 64-bit or an MS Windows 2012 R2 64-bit Server 2012 R2 64-bit Server

5.4 Supported if CaS and XPP are both Supported if CaS and XPP are both Not supported (Retired) installed on either an MS Windows installed on either an MS Windows 2008 R2 64-bit or an MS Windows 2008 R2 64-bit or an MS Windows 2012 R2 64-bit Server 2012 R2 64-bit Server

5.5.2 Supported if CaS and XPP are both Supported if CaS and XPP are both Not supported (Retired) installed on an MS Windows 2012 installed on an MS Windows 2012 R2 64-bit Server R2 64-bit Server

5.6 Supported if CaS and XPP are both Supported if CaS and XPP are both Supported if CaS and (Mature) installed on an MS Windows 2012 installed on an MS Windows 2012 XPP are both installed Contenta R2 64-bit Server R2 64-bit Server on an MS Windows S1000D Note: New S1000D Publish Tool Note: New S1000D Publish Tool 2012 R2 64-bit Server. (CaS) available with version 5.6 requires available with version 5.6 requires Note: New S1000D Server, the following additional the following additional Publish Tool available using prerequisites: prerequisite: with v5.6 requires the Publish following additional Tool XPP 9.1 Patches for License token "divpdf" in prerequisite. Contenta S1000D Publish the license file License token "divpdf" in License token the license file If you do not have this "divpdf" in the license token, SDL license file. If you do not have this Customer Support will license token, SDL provide instructions on how If you do not Customer Support will to obtain it. have this provide instructions on how license token, to obtain it. SDL Customer Support will provide instructions on how to obtain it.

Product Version Release Status as of September 2019 is noted in parentheses after version number. This matrix identifies which product versions have been qualified and supported on the same server at the time of that product version's release date. Releases that are now in the Retired category qualify only for limited technical assistance subject to the availability of trained personnel and resources. No further Service Packs or Hot Fixes will be issued for those releases. Rev. (09/13/2019)