Pre-installation Tasks

This chapter describes tasks and checks to perform before installing OpenFrame Manager.

1. System Requirements

The following are the system requirement for installing OpenFrame Manager.

Category Requirement

Platform

Any platform supported by WAS

Hardware

More than 1 GB hard disk space (at least 120 MB hard disk space)

More than 512 MB RAM

Software

JDK 1.8 (Sun, OPEN) or later

Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera (Internet Explorer not supported)

Database JDBC Driver

JDBC driver from JDBC certified vendors such as Tibero, Oracle, and MS SQL

OpenFrame Product Line

OpenFrame/Base, OpenFrame/Batch, OpenFrame/TACF, OpenFrame/OSC, OpenFrame/AIM, and OpenFrame GW

WAS Product Line

JEUS 8.5

2. Verifying Installation of OpenFrame Products and WAS

OpenFrame Manager integrates with the following products:

  • Database (Tibero, Oracle, MS SQL, etc.)

  • JEUS 8.5

  • OpenFrame/Base 7.1, 7.3

  • OpenFrame/Batch for MVS 7.1, 7.3

  • OpenFrame/TACF 7.1, 7.3

  • OpenFrame/OSC 7.1, 7.3

  • OpenFrame/AIM 7.1, 7.3

  • OpenFrame GW 7.1, 7.3

Before installing OpenFrame Manager, the database and JEUS must be installed, but installing OpenFrame products is not a requirement. However, OpenFrame products that require configuration during OpenFrame Manager installation must be installed in advance.

For information about installing and verifying other required installations, refer to each product’s manual.

3. Configuring Environment Variables

Check the environment variables before installing OpenFrame Manager. JDK 1.8 or later version must be installed, and Java environment variables must be correctly configured on the target system.

Check the current version of Java installed on the target system as follows:

[oframejeus1@ofLinux64 ~]$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_275"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_275-b01)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.275-b01, mixed mode)

OpenFrame Manager also requires that the character encoding is set in the environment variable according to the user environment. This setting can be modified in the .profile or .bash_profile file.

The following example shows how to configure the encoding to "UTF-8" in the .profile or .bash_profile file.

export LANG=en_US.utf8

4. OpenFrame Manager Licensing

A separate license is required to use OpenFrame Manager.

OpenFrame Manager verifies license compliance based on the CPU count and HostName specified in the license. Since license compliance is checked when the JEUS server starts up, the issued license must be placed under the JEUS home directory before using OpenFrame Manager.

During OpenFrame Manager installation, the license is automatically copied to the following directory.

$JEUS_HOME/domains/<domain_name>/servers/<server_name>/lib/application/
<application_name>/license

5. Creating a Tablespace

You need to create a tablespace for OpenFrame Manager in the database.

Since the database does not need to connect to other products such as OpenFrame or OpenFrame GW, you can freely select the database server and freely set the name of the tablespace.

The following creates a tablespace named OFMGR01 with the size of 100 MB by using Tibero.

CREATE TABLESPACE "OFMGR01" DATAFILE 'OFMGR01.DBF' SIZE 100M AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 50M;

For information about how to create a tablespace in each database product, refer to the respective database guide.