Supported environments

To ensure that your product works properly, apply all minimum required operating system patches, and use only the supported versions of third-party software.

To review an up-to-date list of supported environments, visit the IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports (http://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity). The website provides information about requirements related to the following parts of your environment.
  • Operating systems
  • Patches or service packs or equivalent
  • Web browsers
  • Web servers
  • Directory servers
  • Database servers
  • Application servers

Unless otherwise indicated, IBM® Cognos® products are compatible with later versions of patches and service packs from the versions stated.

It is important to note that the Linux® operating system is available in a number of distributions and supports a number of hardware platforms. Ensure that the combination of the operating system and hardware that you are using is supported.

Cognos products and virtualization environments

The IBM virtualization policy (https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10719833) describes IBM support for virtualization environments.