Caché runs on the platforms listed below. Refer to the
Caché
Installation Guide for memory and disk-space requirements. This document contains
the following sections:
The technologies that Caché supports are categorized by the following:
Supported Operating Systems
Caché 5.0 supports the following operating system platforms:
* New with this Caché release
1 Certified with Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT)
enabled.
2 Caché supports Windows terminal server capabilities
in the following environments: Windows NT 4 (SP4, SP5, SP6), Windows 2000 (SP3, SP4),
Windows XP (SP1, SP2), and Windows Server 2003. In these environments, Caché
supports Microsoft terminal server capabilities as well as Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 and
Citrix MetaFrame XP.
Note:
Unicode, Caché Basic, and XML are supported on all platforms.
CSP Supported Web Servers
Caché Server Pages (CSP) is supported on the following Web servers. This
does not necessarily mean that Caché runs on these platforms, but rather that
the CSP/Web server component does.
CSP Supported Web Browsers
CSP is supported on the following Web browsers:
1 JVM restrictions deal with hyperevents and not
core CSP functionality. When using Java, cookies and Java applets must be enabled.
ODBC Driver Supported Platforms
Caché ODBC driver (client) is supported on the following platforms:
1 Both 32-bit and 64-bit ODBC drivers provided for
SPARC
Supported C++ Client Platforms
Caché C++ Client is supported on the following platforms:
Supported Caché SQL Gateway Databases
Important:
The Caché SQL Gateway on UNIX platforms does not support Unicode.
Supported Enterprise Java Beans Servers
Caché support for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) is available for the following
EJB servers:
Important:
On OpenVMS systems, the only supported TCP/IP implementation is Compaq TCP/IP
Services for OpenVMS.
Windows Components Supported Platforms
Caché includes several Windows-based development and system administration
tools and utilities. Each of these components is listed with the Microsoft Windows
platforms on which it is supported.
Caché provides National Language Support (NLS) in an 8-bit character
set for selected regions. Caché also has utility translations for some languages.
These localizations exist for the following languages:
Localization
Language |
Character Sets |
Utility Translation |
Arabic |
CP1256, Latin A, Unicode |
No |
Chinese (Simplified) |
Unicode |
No |
Chinese (Traditional) |
Unicode |
No |
Czech |
Latin 2, Unicode |
No |
Danish |
Latin 1, Unicode |
No |
Dutch |
Latin 1, Unicode |
Yes |
English |
Latin 1, Unicode |
Yes |
Finnish |
Latin 1, Unicode |
No |
French |
Latin 1, Unicode |
Yes |
German |
Latin 1, Unicode |
Yes |
Greek |
Latin G, Unicode |
No |
Hebrew |
Latin H, Unicode |
No |
Hungarian |
Latin 2, Unicode |
No |
Italian |
Latin 1, Unicode |
Yes |
Japanese |
Unicode |
Yes |
Korean |
Unicode |
Yes |
Polish |
Latin 2, Unicode |
No |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
Latin
1, Unicode |
Yes |
Russian |
CP1251, Latin C, Unicode |
Yes |
Spanish |
Latin 1, Unicode |
Yes |
Thai |
CP874, Latin T, Unicode |
No |
Supported Caché Version Interoperability
The following table shows the cross version compatibility within the most recent
releases of Caché.
For example, the
Control Panel that ships with Caché
4.0 can only be used with a 4.0 server. However, the
Control Panel that
ships with 5 can be used with 4.0, 4.1, and 5 servers.
Component Interoperability
Component |
Clients |
Servers |
Configuration Manager |
4.0 |
4.0 |
4.1 |
4.0, 4.1 |
5 |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
Architect |
4.0, 4.1 |
4.0, 4.1 |
Studio |
4.0, 4.1 |
4.0, 4.1 |
5 |
5 |
Control Panel |
4.0 |
4.0 |
4.1 |
4.0, 4.1 |
5 |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
Explorer |
4.0 |
4.0 |
4.1 |
4.0, 4.1 |
5 |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
SQL Manager |
4.0,
4.1 |
4.0, 4.1 |
5 |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
ODBC |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
JDBC |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
COM Object Factory |
4.0,
4.1 |
4.0, 4.1 |
5 |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
Java Object Factory |
4.0,
4.1 |
4.0, 4.1 |
5 |
5 |
Caché Direct |
4.0, 4.1,
5 |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
DCP |
3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 5 |
3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 5 |
CSP |
4.0 |
4.0 |
4.0.3, 4.1, 5 |
4.0.3, 4.1,
5 |
Shadowing Fast mode |
4.0 |
4.0 |
4.1 |
4.1 |
51 |
5 |
Shadowing Compatible mode2 |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
4.0, 4.1, 5 |
1 Cluster shadowing is only supported with Caché
5.
2 Some 4.1 and 5 databases cannot be shadowed to
a 4.0 system due to format-related differences, such as maximum database size and
subscript length.
Note:
Mixed clusters including Caché 4.1 and 5 servers are not supported nor
are mixed clusters containing OpenVMS and Tru64 UNIX members.