RE: SAP Business Objects BI software

We have Business Objects running here and I asked our expert about it.
He said that Business Objects comes in 2 flavors Windows and Linux. So
if you ran it ran on the iSeries it would have to run in PASE. He
didn't know if it would work. Personally, I'm not a big fan on PASE.
Software tends to run slowly in the emulated environment.

On running the database on the iSeries, my expert said that Business
Objects supported MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle and DB2. Our current set up has
the Business Object database running one server and its database on a
remote server, MS SQL. He said theoretically it could work. My only
concern would be the usual problems using the iSeries version of DB2
with windows software.

So the answer is... maybe.



date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:48:48 -0400
from: Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>
subject: SAP Business Objects BI software

Does anyone know if SAP Business Objects BI software runs on an iSeries?
I know SAP ERP does. I was thinking Business Objects was a Windows only
product. If the application itself does not run on an iSeries do you
know if the database it uses can be DB2 on an iSeries? I know it can
access any ODBC compliant database to get data for the reports but my
question concerns where and how it stores the report definitions. We
will be buying a package soon that comes with Business Objects as its
reporting tool and I was wondering if we could not install two or three
more Windows servers just to run Business Objects and its database and
maybe just run that on our existing iSeries. I am planning on asking the
vendor the same questions but they are not an iSeries focused vendor and
may not have any idea.