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This file contains last-minute product information and updates to IBM Rational Tau 4.3
It is divided into the following sections:
For the latest news and information on IBM Rational Tau, visit the website at http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tau.
This is done by executing the commands as root:
chcon -t texrel_shlib_t <installation dir>/bin/libsbl10.so
chcon -t texrel_shlib_t <installation dir>/bin/librds.so
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Minimum |
Recommended |
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Processor |
Pentium 500 MHz |
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RAM |
256 MB |
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Virtual Memory |
512 MB |
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Disk Space (Installation) |
450 MB (approximately) |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
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Processor |
Pentium 500 MHz |
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RAM |
256 MB |
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Virtual Memory |
512 MB |
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Disk Space (Installation) |
550 MB (approximately) |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
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Processor |
Solaris 10, ULTRASPARC 10 CPU 1x450MHz |
Solaris 10, SPARC 280r CPU 2x900MHz |
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Virtual Memory |
512 MB |
1024 MB |
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Disk Space (Installation) |
600 MB (approximately) |
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IBM Rational Tau is a Windows application that is ported to UNIX platforms using third-party software, MainWin, which is implemented using the X11 library. IBM Rational Tau 4.3 has been ported using MainWin version 5.2.
MainWin supports ‘native’ displays, provided the appropriate X server and graphics card patches are applied.
To display IBM Rational Tau clients running on UNIX from a PC running Windows, Hummingbird Exceed version 8 or 9 is required.
The following display settings are recommended:
For additional information on system requirements, including recommended configurations, visit the IBM Rational Software Support site.
The internationalization support in IBM Rational Tau is available on Windows only. It is assumed that you use a local version of Windows and also set the locale to use your language. For more information about topics in this area, please refer to the chapter “Internationalization Support” available in the IBM Rational Tau user documentation.
IBM Rational Tau supports integrations with the following versions of Synergy:
Via SCCI 1.1 the following configuration management tools are supported:
IBM Rational Tau supports integrations with the following versions of IBM Rational DOORS on Windows platforms only:
Flexera Software FLEXnet 11.5.
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The Tau Visual Studio Integration provides an integration to the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 IDE. The integration is supported on Microsoft Windows operating systems only.
The Eclipse integration is supported on all platforms. For the Eclipse integration to function properly, the appropriate versions and platform variants of the following software must be installed.
The software can be downloaded from http://www.eclipse.org/
Please note that it is only Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition that is supported. This is commonly referred to in this file and in other documentation as Visual Studio.
The following preprocessors (C/C++ language dialects) are supported when importing C/C++ header files:
Code can be generated for bare and or threaded applications, refer to the C Code Generator and AgileC Code Generator reference manuals for more information.
The generic POSIX integration is developed on Solaris and uses the following basic POSIX primitives:
The generic POSIX integration has been tested on the following target platforms:
The same source files are generated regardless of target system, while the make files must be adopted to host/target combinations.
The following Java versions are supported
Please note that the Java compiler “javac”, must be present in the system path for the Java support to function properly.
The following compilers are supported when using the C++ API:
The XMI exporter supports the following:
The XMI exporter is tested for the following target tool environment:
For the latest information about third party products that are supported with IBM Rational Tau, visit the IBM Rational Software Support site.
An Installation Guide for IBM Rational Tau is available in the user documentation.
The following integrations exist and can be downloaded from the IBM Rational Software Support site:
Beside these integrations, there are additional add-ins available for the Tau product, also available on the IBM Rational Software Support site.
After installing Tau you find the following integrations in the <tau>\integrations\ directory: Synergy integration, MSVS integration and the Eclipse integration.
To obtain a license for IBM Rational Tau you need to provide Customer Support with the hostname and hostid of the computer on which the license server is to be run. How to proceed is described in detail in the Installation Guide.
Integrations now included in the installers for Windows
DOORS Integration/DOORS Analyst
- Possibility to store project and .u2 files in DOORS. Direct read/write access to files stored in DOORS.
- Two-way synchronization of surrogate modules. Improved synchronization settings. Any metamodel can be used for synchronization.
- Code generation and simulation of models stored in DOORS.
External Relationships
External Relationships are links which can be created between IBM Rational products which support registration to the IBM Rational Directory Service (RDS). External Relationship support includes creation and navigation between RDS enabled products. Tau now support registration to RDS and External Relationships as a new link type.
Starting with Rational Tau and DOORS Analyst 4.3.0.2, Windows 7 is supported.
For details of known problems in IBM Rational Tau 4.3, and how to resolve them, visit the IBM Rational Software Support site.
For details of problems that have been resolved in IBM Rational Tau 4.3, visit the IBM Rational Software Support site.
For further assistance please contact our support team. Contact details may be found at the IBM Rational Software Support site.
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