Finance/HR Desktop Requirements

• Periodic use of Integrated System (in and out of Integrated System)
• Batch work for Integrated System

• Integrated System open for extended periods of time
• High volume of transactions in Integrated System
• High use of MicroSoft products/Opened at same time (e.g. Excel with links)
• Switch and export between Discoverer and Excel

• Windows 7 32-bit, 64-bit, SP1
• Windows XP SP2 or SP3
• Minimum 500 MHz
• Recommend 512MB RAM

• Windows XP SP2 or SP3
• Minimum 500 MHz
• Recommend 512MB or greater

* Windows 7 (64-bit) desktop client operating system is currently only certified with Oracle E-Business Suite when running 32-bit products e.g. Client based products, Browsers, JRE plug-in and Microsoft Office.

NOTE:

1. All Certification combinations require JRE 1.6.0_27 or newer.
2. Applications running WinXP+Virtual PC on Win7 clients are NOT supported.
   
   

To achieve optimal performance, you must have adequate CPU power and memory on the Mac OS X client. Oracle recommends the following configuration settings.

Hardware Requirements

The Mac OS X client must have 800 x 600 minimum display resolution (1024 x 768 is preferred). For a complete description of Mac OS X requirements (including processor, RAM, and disk requirements), review Apple's informational web page at:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24950 (10.5)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html (10.6)

Software Requirements

The following desktop software is required:

Mac OS X v10.5:

• Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard" version 10.5.6 or higher, along with any other security and Java updates in the Software Update program started from the Apple icon menu on the client)
• Safari 3 (version 3.2.1 or higher) or Safari 4 (4.0.4 or higher) or Safari 5 (5.0.2 or higher)
• The J2SE 5 plug-in on Mac OS X (v1.5.0_13 or higher)

Mac OS X v10.6:

• Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard" version 10.6.3 or higher, along with any other security and Java updates in the Software Update program started from the Apple icon menu on the client)
• Safari 4 (version 4.0.5 or higher) or Safari 5 (5.0.2 or higher)
• The J2SE 6 plug-in on Mac OS X (v1.6.0_20 or higher)

Mac OS X Settings Specific to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

Use the following settings to improve client-side performance and usability.

For Safari (under the Safari menu option):

• Under 'Preferences > Security > Web Content':
  • Select: 'Enable plug-ins, Enable Java, Enable JavaScript'
  • Do not select: 'Block Pop-Up Windows'
• Under 'Preferences > Advanced': select 'Press Tab' to highlight each item on a webpage

For the Java Plug-in:

• For Mac OS X 10.5, on the 'General' tab in 'Finder > Applications > Utilities > Java > Java Preferences': ensure that the Java Version selected is 'J2SE 5.0'. For Mac OS X 10.6, only the 'Java SE 6' plugin is available and customers will have this selected by default.
• For Mac OS X 10.6, it might be also necessary (especially for those running on Intel Core 2 Duo machines) to select the 'In their own process' for the 'Run Applets' selection to avoid a Forms applet hang on starting up a Forms-based application.
• On the 'General' tab in 'Finder > Applications > Utilities > Java > Java Preferences': Click on 'Settings', then 'View Applets', and ensure that the 'Enable Caching' tick box is selected.

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 is not certified with the Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera or Chrome browsers on Mac OS X.

No Discoverer Desktop client access (however, other SQL client tools can be used)

Cisco VPN Client for Mac.
ITS Software Central: http://www.itc.virginia.edu/central/