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Operating system and Java requirements

The following table lists the operating systems supported by the ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server editions. The following considerations also apply:

The supported Java runtime environment is the default runtime installed with the application server.
Additional system update requirements follow the table.

For the most up-to-date list of certified platforms, see the Macromedia support site, www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion.

Edition	Operating systems
IBM WebSphere 4	Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6A Windows 2000 Server SP3 Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP3 Red Hat Linux 7.2 SuSE Linux 7.2 Solaris 7 Solaris 8 AIX 4.3.3 AIX 5L v5.1
IBM WebSphere 5.0 IBM WebSphere 5.1 Base or ND Single Server**	Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6A Windows 2000 Server SP3 Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP3 Red Hat Linux 8.0 RedHat Advanced Server 2.1 SuSE Linux 7.3 Solaris 8 AIX 4.3.3 AIX 5L v 5.1

** Vertical and horizontal clustering not supported. Use of the Network Deployment console for deployment of ColdFusion applications is also not supported.

Include the following updates for your operating system:

To use Microsoft Access or other databases that require an ODBC driver, on Windows NT 4.0 Server or Windows 2000 Server, you must have the following component installed: MDAC 2.5 SP1 (www.microsoft.com/data/download.htm).
For all UNIX distributions, install the latest production-level patches, including the kernel, from the supplier's download sites: for Red Hat, ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub; for SuSE, ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub; for Solaris, http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access; for AIX, http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/support.html.
To use C++ CFXs with RedHat Linux 8.0, the Linux installation must have a RedHat libc compatibility library such as the following:
RedHat-8.0 for i386 compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.110.i386.rpm

Users must have 7.3-2.* or later.


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