The Portus software consists of two components:
The Portus Server component runs locally to your "resource". In this instance a resource is defined as an Adabas, MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQL Server database. It can also be defined as a Natural program, an LE program, a shared library or a DLL.
The Portus Control Centre component is a central GUI used to configure and monitor one or more Portus Servers. This component runs within the Eclipse IDE, and must be run on Linux or Windows.
On Linux, the GTK2 Windowing system and its dependencies.
A Java Runtime Environment (minimum: JRE 1.6)
Portus is currently supported on the following platforms:
Windows 2003/2008 Server (standard edition and enterprise edition)
Windows XP Professional
Windows 2000 Professional, Server and Advanced Server
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Important:
All Windows 64-bit platforms are supported by running the SOA
Gateway in 32-bit compatibility mode.
Linux x86 (32-bit)
Linux x86 (64-bit)
Linux s390x (64-bit)
AIX 5.3 / 6.1 (64-bit)
Solaris 9/10 SPARC (64-bit)
HP-UX 11i v2 Itanium (64-bit)
z/OS
z/VSE
A userid and password that can be used on the z/OS system.
Appropriate RACF/ACF2/TOP-SECRET access to create datasets.
Portus installation requires that server files be sent to the z/OS host, therefore an accessible ftp server must be running on this host.
A free TCP/IP port that can be used (One per Portus)
The ability to add a started task or submit a long running job.
Adabas databases accessed via Portus must be UES-enabled.
The Adabas WAL813.L003 as well as WAL813.LOAD (or above) libraries must be in the STEPLIB chain, otherwise no access to Adabas will be possible from the Portus server.
Under certain circumstances, the Adabas link routines may not pick up the SVC and DBID values specified via DDCARD. In this case the SVC number and Database Id must be zapped into ADALNKR, as described in the Adabas installation documentation, and the modified ADALNKR made available in a STEPLIB library ahead of the one containing the original, unzapped version.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Libraries. The redistributable can be downloaded here
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Libraries. The redistributable can be downloaded here
It is strongly recommended that you restart Windows after this installing this redistributable.
The Portus installation scripts require the bash shell.
The Portus installation requires that server files be sent to the target machine, therefore an accessible ftp or SSH server must be running on the target machine.
Portus requires the following software versions
Minimum Adabas v5 on OpenSystems platforms (Windows / Linux / Unix); Adabas 6.1.3 + Adabas Client (ACL) 6.2.1.8 required for LOBs (large objects) access
Any supported UES-enabled Adabas version on the mainframe (v7.4 and higher); Adabas 8.1 or higher required for LOB access
iTrac ADAOS-3371 must be applied
To use any relational database driver (MySQL/Oracle/Postgres/etc) ODBC must be installed, and the appropriate driver interface for your database (e.g. MyODBC/Oracle ODBC/psqlodbc/etc) must also be installed.
