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Software Requirements

This release requires and will upgrade Studio Enterprise Edition ServicePack 2 or Service Pack 2 WrapPack 1.

Important: This release requires version 10000.2.990 or later of the Micro Focus licensing software. For local servers, you do not need to install it separately, as the setup file installs a new Studio Enterprise Edition client and a new licensing server on the same machine.

If you have a network server, you must update the license server before installing the product as the client is not able to communicate with license servers of versions older than 10000.2.660. On Windows, you can check the version of your license server by clicking Help > About in the Micro Focus Licensing System Administration tool.

You can download the new version of the license server software from the Micro Focus SupportLine Web site: http://supportline.microfocus.com/websync/SLM.aspx.

ou need to install the following software beforehand:

The following functionality, tools and features have additional requirements:

Visual Studio IDE

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 or Microsoft Visual Studio Shell 2008. Microsoft Visual Studio Express Edition is not supported.
Microsoft Windows SDK is required if you are using Visual Studio Shell. See the Microsoft Download Center and search for Windows SDK.
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. This is included with the above versions of Visual Studio.

Enterprise Server

A Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or Netscape Navigator 6.1, is required for Enterprise Server Administration in Server Enterprise Edition.
To use your Web browser offline, you need the dial-up networking feature of Windows installed. Otherwise you might have TCP/IP errors such as being unable find "localhost" or the numeric equivalent (127.0.0.1).
To use Enterprise Server Administration, scripting or JavaScript support must be enabled in your browser. This is on by default in Internet Explorer in most Windows operating systems, apart from Windows Server 2003. Also, active content must be allowed and not blocked. To enable both these in Internet Explorer:
1. Click Tools > Internet Options.
2. On the Security tab, click Custom Level. In the Scripting section, under Active Scripting, click Enable.
3. On the Advanced tab, scroll down the list to the Security section, and ensure the item Allow active content to run in files on My Computer is checked.
Enterprise Server Help requires the Java Runtime Environment on some Windows systems to enable the Search facility to work.

Java Beans

Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4 or later from Oracle or IBM. Oracle versions 1.4 and later are supported, but only IBM version 1.4 is supported. You can download the J2SE from www.oracle.com.

Java Compilation

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is required for compiling Java. The JDK is downloadable from www.oracle.com. After installing the JDK, you must put the tools.jar file for the JDK on your classpath, using a command similar to:
```
 set classpath=jdk-install-directory\lib\tools.jar
```

OpenESQL

Database access is supported using the OpenESQL preprocessor with applications compiled as .NET managed code to access relational databases using ODBC 3.0-compliant drivers. Refer to your driver vendor's documentation to determine whether your driver is suitable for use with OpenESQL.
OpenESQL has been tested against the following ADO.NET data providers:
- Microsoft provider for SQL Server
- Microsoft provider for Oracle
- IBM DB2
- Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET)
- OleDb
- Managed ODBC .NET providers
Dynamic SQL using the SQL Descriptor Area (SQLDA) is not currently supported for OpenESQL applications compiled with the SQL(DBMAN=ODBC) directive.

Windows Forms

Microsoft Visual Studio is required for using the Service Interfaces feature to generate Windows Forms and ASP.NET Web site test clients.
Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS) is also required for generating Windows Forms test clients.