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Ellipse and Related Products Supported Platforms

June 2016

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Contents

Confidential and Proprietary

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Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 7

Purpose .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Scope ................................................................................................................................................. 7 Confidentiality and Disclosure of Information .................................................................................... 7

Product Release Lifecycle ..................................................................................................................... 8

Internationalisation and Translation .................................................................................................... 9

Standard Languages .......................................................................................................................... 9 Scope ................................................................................................................................................. 9 Out of Scope ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Ellipse 6.3.3 and earlier ..................................................................................................................... 9

Translation Stack ......................................................................................................................... 9 Language Combinations ...........................................................................................................10 Ellipse Version Considerations ..................................................................................................10

Supported Platforms and Releases ....................................................................................................11

Third Party Product Support ............................................................................................................11 Platform Availability ..........................................................................................................................11 Further Information...........................................................................................................................11

Ellipse Platforms ..................................................................................................................................12

Platforms Currently Available for Distribution ..................................................................................12 Ellipse 8 .....................................................................................................................................12

Platforms Currently Supported – Active Support .............................................................................18 Ellipse 8 .....................................................................................................................................18

Platforms Currently Supported – Limited / Classic Support ............................................................19 Ellipse 6.3.3 Server ...................................................................................................................19 Ellipse 6.3.3 Ellipse Reporting ...................................................................................................20 Ellipse 6.3.2 Server ...................................................................................................................22 Ellipse 6.3.2 Ellipse Reporting ...................................................................................................22 Ellipse 6.3.1/6.2.x Server...........................................................................................................24 Ellipse 6.3.1/6.2.x Ellipse Reporting ..........................................................................................24 Ellipse 6.1 Server ......................................................................................................................26 Ellipse 6.1 Ellipse Reporting ......................................................................................................26 Ellipse 5.2.3.8 Server ................................................................................................................29 Ellipse 5.2.3.8 Ellipse Reporting ................................................................................................30 Ellipse 5.2.3.7 Server ................................................................................................................31 Ellipse 5.2.3.7 Ellipse Reporting ................................................................................................32

Ellipse Reporting (General) ..............................................................................................................34 VMware Virtual Environments ..........................................................................................................34 Clients, User Interface, PC Products and Scripting Support Platforms ...........................................34

Products and Scripting Languages ...........................................................................................34 Currently Supported Ellipse Pre-Ellipse 8 Releases .................................................................35

Ellipse Ancillary Products ...................................................................................................................38

Approvals Manager ..........................................................................................................................38 Envoy Buyer 2.3 ...............................................................................................................................38 Ellipse Analytics ...............................................................................................................................38

Ellipse Mobile ........................................................................................................................................39

Ellipse Mobile Platform - Server .......................................................................................................39

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Ellipse Mobile Inspector ...................................................................................................................40 Ellipse Mobile Worker ......................................................................................................................41

Mobile Locator (Optional) ..........................................................................................................41

Work Planner ........................................................................................................................................42

Support .............................................................................................................................................42

LinkOne .................................................................................................................................................43

General Support Availability .............................................................................................................43 LinkOne Integration ..........................................................................................................................43

Retirement Dates for Ellipse-related Third-Party Products .............................................................44



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Introduction

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to identify the supported platforms and product retirement dates associated with Ellipse and associated third party products.

If this copy of the Supported Platforms Guide is included in with product documentation then it may not be the most current version. The current version is provided through the ABB Enterprise Software Customer Support Portal.

Scope

This document defines support and product retirement details for Ellipse and associated third party products for the releases including Ellipse 8, Ellipse 6.3, Ellipse 6.1, Ellipse 5.2.3.8 and Ellipse 5.2.3.7.

Confidentiality and Disclosure of Information

ABB retains ownership of this document. This document must be treated as confidential, as disclosure of the document will disclose the methodology.



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Product Release Lifecycle

The Product Release Lifecycle information, previously contained in this document, has been moved into a separate document called Product Support Policy – Ellipse, available on the ABB Enterprise Software Customer Support Portal.



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Internationalisation and Translation

Standard Languages

The current internationalisation policy is to provide Ellipse as standard in Australian English and US English.

For Ellipse 8, customers who purchase the Internationalisation module receive all of the available supported language translations (Russian, Canadian French, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese).

As each new version of Ellipse is released, it will only support English initially, followed by the other languages in order of demand.

Ellipse 8 supports multi-lingual data entry and storage. The supported user interface and data entry languages can be used together in the one Ellipse instance. Ellipse 8 does not translate customer data that is entered or dynamically convert data between multiple languages.

Scope

Translation scope encompasses the following components:

Ellipse 8:

All core Ellipse online programs, including screens and messages

Ellipse core data tables (MSF010, MSF025 and MSF081)

Ellipse 6.3.3 and prior:

All core Ellipse programs launched from the Ellipse Desktop

Ellipse login and Desktop screens

Ellipse core data tables (MSF010, MSF025 and MSF081)

WebView for Ellipse 6.3.3

Out of Scope

The following are not translated as standard and will be distributed in English only:

Ellipse Online Help

Reporting subsystems such as RDL and Ellipse Reporting.

Ancillary products such as Approvals Manager may not be available in languages other than English.

Work Planner releases prior to 4.3 may not be available in all languages supported by Ellipse.

Housekeeping and other scripts.

All technical user administrative interfaces (e.g., EAC Ellipse Admin Console).

Ellipse 6.3.3 and earlier

Translation Stack

All translations are built to satisfy the end user GUI environment only, and the server-based technical and environmental components will remain in English, i.e.:

Server operating system

Database server



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Web server

A user will thus receive all Ellipse messages and screens in the installed translated language, but messages originating from the server OS, database, or web server will not be translated and will therefore be presented in English.

Language Combinations

The Ellipse Internationalisation module in Ellipse 6.3.3 and earlier releases allows several multi-language combinations:

en-au ru-ru es-la pt-br fr-ca

en-au

ru-ru

es-la

pt-br

fr-ca

Language key:

en-au Australian English

ru-ru Russian

es-la Latin-American Spanish

pt-br Brazilian Portuguese

fr-ca Canadian French

Ellipse Version Considerations

A newer language pack is usually backward compatible with previous Ellipse versions from 5.2.3.7 onwards.

WebView is only available with language packs for 6.3.3.



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Supported Platforms and Releases

The following sections outline the platform, transaction monitor, database, and scheduler combinations for the releases of Ellipse currently in use. This information is provided as a guide for customers planning their migration path. Since versions and options are subject to change, customers should always confirm the availability of a specific platform combination with their ABB Account Manager.

Third Party Product Support

Once a version of a third party software product is no longer supported by its vendor or ABB no longer has access to vendor support and maintenance, ABB cannot analyse or correct problems that are associated with an unsupported or unsupportable release.

Not every version of a third party product is supported with every Ellipse version. For third party product support, please refer to the relevant section of this document for your particular Ellipse release. The published third party product end-of-life dates can found in the last section of this document.

Platform Availability

This document will assist customers to determine their operating system, database and TP system upgrades. However, customers should always confirm the availability of a specific platform for an Ellipse release with their ABB Enterprise Software Account Manager prior to ordering.

Further Information

For further information or clarification, please contact your ABB Enterprise Software Account Manager.

Website: http://new.abb.com/enterprise-software

Email: [email protected]

http://new.abb.com/enterprise-software

mailto:[email protected]



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Ellipse Platforms

If you have a question related to an Ellipse related product or platform not listed below, please contact your Account Manager or Global Customer Care.

Platforms Currently Available for Distribution

The releases in the following tables reflect the most recent version(s) available from ABB Distribution.

Ellipse 8

Ellipse 8 introduces a large number of technical differences and simplification of the software involved in delivering the Ellipse suite.

Ellipse Version Operating System Database

8.7 (Azure Cloud)1

Oracle Linux 7.0

Oracle 11gR2 Oracle 12c (12.1) SQL Server 2014

Azure SQL

8.7 Oracle Linux 6.7 (Intel x64 based)

Oracle 11gR2 Oracle 12c (12.1) SQL Server 2014

1. Ellipse 8.7 is available on the Azure Cloud via an ABB Managed Cloud Service. More information is available from your Account Manager.

Tool Support / User Interface

Operating System Tool Supported Version

Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8.x

Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox

Currently supported versions by the respective vendors and the browser must support Adobe Flash 10 or above

Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8

Visual Studio:

Approvals Manager Outlook Plugin

Smart Excel Plugin

Office 2007 or above

Notes :

1. Visual Studio - an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft used to provide plugins for Office; particularly the Smart Excel Plugin and Approvals Manager Outlook Plugin

2. Ellipse Appliance

a. The Ellipse Appliance comes preconfigured with automation around the time consuming processes of software installation, operating system install, and complete environment creation configured for availability. Ellipse has been tested and scaled based on specific hardware configurations to provide predictable performance and availability. Customers should view the Ellipse appliance as a black box. Importantly for customers, this reduces the support costs and total cost of ownership for Ellipse 8.

b. The Appliance embeds open source tools, libraries, components and products. These are configured and tested in combination. Importantly, customers do not need to individually support these third party components. Customers do not need to obtain separate support contracts for the embedded components.



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c. The Ellipse Appliance simplifies the delivery and management of Ellipse 8. The delivery installs and patches the combination of software, settings and machine resource allocations to ensure Ellipse operates as it was designed and tested.

d. The Ellipse Appliance is intended to lower the cost of ownership for customers. By utilizing the Ellipse Appliance the support teams can be confident that the appliance is installed and configured as it was designed and tested.

e. Whilst the individual components of the appliance can operate under different deployment models such as VMware. The Ellipse Appliance deployment and management has not been tested under VMware and as such the Ellipse Appliance is not warranted under VMware. ABB may ask customers to reproduce any problems under the standard installation process.

3. Ellipse 8’s operating system is Oracle Linux, which is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distribution repackaged and redistributed and supported by Oracle. Customers should purchase commercial technical support from Oracle Support to ensure they have access to patch distributions.

4. The Oracle Linux support lifecycle can be found at the following location. http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/elsp-lifetime-069338.pdf. Noting that Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 is supported through to March 2017 with Oracle Linux 6 supported through to March 2021. Additional support information can be found at the following link http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/support-439829.html.

Your ABB Enterprise Software Account Executive can arrange an Ellipse 8 architecture presentation to familiarize yourself with these changes.

http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/elsp-lifetime-069338.pdf

http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/support-439829.html



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Ellipse 8 Deployment Options

Ellipse 8 is may be deployed in three primary ways, summarised in the table following:

Deployment Architecture

General description

Microsoft Azure Cloud - ABB Managed (Cloud Services)

Ellipse is hosted in an ABB managed Azure Cloud Service (infrastructure and application services) established specifically for the customer by ABB.

Customer data protected in the cloud by ABB from unauthorised external access from third parties.

This option is available from Ellipse 8.7 and later releases.

Appliance

ABB delivers the Ellipse application with all supporting software components via an Appliance architecture. The only exception is the Relational Database - either Oracle or SQL Server - for which the customer is responsible for sourcing and supporting.

This appliance architecture enables simplified installation, configuration and upgrades of the complete Ellipse application software bundle in support of a high availability architecture.

Customer is responsible for sourcing physical hardware to support the operation of the Appliance.

Customer is responsible for protection of their own data, on premise.

Customer is responsible for their own infrastructure security.

ABB provide application components that will enable the customer to enforce their own security authentication and authorisation rules.

Manual installation

Customer sources physical and or virtual hardware to accommodate Ellipse application components. ETL for each logical Ellipse environment required. The customer is responsible for installation and configuration of all Ellipse product suite components in support of a high availability architecture (secure, up-to date, load balanced, highly available).

Customer is responsible for sourcing physical hardware to support installation and operation of Ellipse.

Customer is responsible for protection of their own data.

Customer is responsible for their own infrastructure security.

Ellipse 8 Appliance Deployments Lower Total Cost!

The Ellipse 8 appliance represents an advanced Asset Management capability in a box which, most importantly for customers, reduces the support costs and total cost of ownership for Ellipse 8. There are many good reasons for this:

a. The Ellipse Appliance comes preconfigured with significant automation around the time consuming processes of software installation, operating system installation, and complete environment creation including nearly all typical post-installation configured activities for high



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availability. Ellipse has been tested and scaled based on specific hardware configurations to provide predictable performance and availability.

b. The Appliance embeds open source tools, libraries, components and products. These are configured and tested in combination. Importantly, customers do not need to individually support these third party components. Customers do not need to obtain separate support contracts for the embedded components.

c. The Ellipse Appliance simplifies the delivery and management of Ellipse 8. The delivery installs and patches the combination of software, settings and machine resource allocations to ensure Ellipse operates as it was designed and tested.

d. The Ellipse Appliance is intended to lower the cost of ownership for customers by utilizing the Ellipse Appliance the support teams can be confident that the appliance is installed and configured as it was designed and tested.

e. Whilst the individual components of the appliance can technically operate under different deployment models such as VMware. The Ellipse Appliance deployment and management has not been tested under VMware and as such the Ellipse Appliance is not warranted under VMware. ABB may ask customers to reproduce any problems under the standard installation process.

Ellipse 8 Appliance Certified Hardware

The Ellipse Appliance is available on Intel x64 hardware and has specific hardware compatibility. Customers should discuss this with ABB during their installation planning and prior to acquisition of new hardware.

The following table lists the vendor hardware platforms that Ellipse 8 has been certified to run on, by ABB itself or by other customers working with ABB, and which ABB will support. Customers wishing to utilize hardware platforms not on the list must undergo a certification process with ABB, as outlined in section "Ellipse 8 Appliance Hardware Certification Process" below.

Server Vendor

Server Model Ellipse Version

Notes

Cisco UCS B200 M3 8.5+1 May require "manual" device selection procedure during Appliance initialization

Cisco UCS B400 M4 8.5+1 May require "manual" device selection procedure during Appliance initialization

Dell PowerEdge R710 8.3+1



Dell PowerEdge M620 8.5+1



HP ProLiant BL460 8.4+1 Ellipse versions prior to 8.4.15 may encounter difficulty with device selection at initialisation

HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 8.4+1



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IBM BladeCenter HS23 8.5+1

IBM X3650 8.3+1 Must ensure "m5015" RAID card is in use

IBM X3690 8.3+1 Must ensure "m5015" RAID card is in use

Oracle Sun Blade Server X4 - 2 8.4+1

Note:

1. The Ellipse appliance is engineered to maintain compatibility with previously certified platforms and are consider low risk of presenting issues, however as ABB may not have direct access to each platform, explicit testing of later version of the appliance on each platform may not have been possible.

Ellipse 8 Appliance Hardware Certification Process

The Ellipse Appliance is certified with the vendor hardware platforms that are identified in section Ellipse 8 Appliance Certified Hardware above. Vendor platform makes/models remain listed in the Supported Platforms Guide even if they become superseded and are no longer available from the platform vendor. Later models of the same vendor hardware family published in this Supported Platforms Guide are at lower risk of presenting issues but not automatically supported.

To ensure that the Ellipse Appliance can operate in production on a Customer’s selected Vendor hardware platform, the Customer must engage ABB Enterprise Software consulting services, backed by ABB Enterprise Software R&D, to work with the Customer to test and validate the hardware/platform. As the validation processes may identify issues that will take time to resolve, it is recommended to scope sufficient project time to complete the validation and resolve all issues. ABB Enterprise Software consulting services shall work with the Customer to determine the scope, time and cost of the validation exercises taking into account the following variables:

1. Previous experience indicates that the appliance would typically requires little or no modification to work on most proposed hardware platforms. While ABB Enterprise Software hold a high degree of confidence in the general processes and suitability of the appliance for installation and operation across a range of hardware makes and models, no guarantee is made that we will certify the appliance on all hardware makes, models and configurations.

2. ABB Enterprise Software maintains strong relationships with a number of vendors, however ABB Enterprise Software are not provided access to every hardware/platform combination for testing purposes. Accordingly the Customer is required to provide ABB Enterprises Software with unrestricted access to the specified hardware/platform combination and Vendor support in order to complete the validation process.

3. ABB Enterprise Software will time limit the validation effort to 2 weeks duration.

4. ABB Enterprise Software requires a minimum of 20 working days’ notice to schedule resources. Consulting project support shall be delivered remotely via phone and email support only.

On completion of the validation exercise, including the sign off of the installation and deployment processes, ABB Enterprise Software will schedule the update of the Supported Platforms Guide to reflect the hardware/platform combination at that point in time for the specified release.

Ellipse 8 Non-Appliance Hardware

Ellipse 8 installations which are not based on Appliance technology are eligible for support on platforms, physical or virtual, that support the version of Oracle Linux required by the relevant Ellipse 8 release. Customers that elect to manually install the individual Ellipse 8 server types as part of a non-Appliance deployment are reminded of the significant additional responsibilities they are assuming in relation to everything from base operating system provisioning, installation and configuration through to product installation, configuration, troubleshooting, tuning as well as upgrades to all the components and configurations.



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The following table lists hardware platforms upon which ABB customers have successfully performed manual installations of Ellipse 8 and which ABB currently supports as non-Appliance deployments:

Server Vendor

Server Model Virtualisation Ellipse Version

Oracle Linux Version

Notes

Cisco UCS C240 M3 VMware ESXi 5.5 8.4 6.3

Customers wishing to utilize hardware platforms not on the list should undergo a certification process with ABB, as outlined in section "Ellipse 8 Non-Appliance Hardware Certification Process" below. The result of completing this process is to become listed in the table.

Customers wishing to use virtualisation platforms such as VMware acknowledge that under such deployment configurations, ABB does not control the physical hardware and as such can make only limited representations regarding performance of the system, especially when “custom” provisioning and or resource sharing configurations begin to creep into deployments.

Ellipse 8 Non-Appliance Hardware Certification Process

Ellipse 8 installations not based on Appliance technology fall into two categories:

1. Installation of Ellipse 8 server types on physical hardware running Oracle Linux

2. Installation of Ellipse 8 server types on virtual servers running Oracle Linux

Vendor platform makes/models remain listed in the Supported Platforms Guide even if they become superseded and are no longer available from the platform vendor. Later models of the same vendor hardware family published in this Supported Platforms Guide are at lower risk of presenting issues but not automatically supported.

Customers wishing to deploy on VMware should also review ABB positioning in section “VMware Virtual Environments” below, relevant to Ellipse 8 platforms.

To ensure that Ellipse 8 can operate in production on a Customer’s selected non-Appliance deployment platform, the Customer should engage ABB Enterprise Software consulting services, backed by ABB Enterprise Software R&D, to work collaboratively to test and validate the hardware/virtual platform. As the validation processes may identify issues that will take time to resolve, it is recommended to scope sufficient project time to complete the validation and resolve all issues. ABB Enterprise Software consulting services shall work with the Customer to determine the scope, time and cost of the validation exercises taking into account the following variables:

1. Previous experience indicates that Ellipse 8 installations on servers running Oracle Linux typically require little or no modification to work on most proposed platforms. While ABB Enterprise Software holds a high degree of confidence in the general processes and suitability of the Ellipse 8 installation method, no guarantee can be made regarding the ability of untested hardware and or virtualisation software combinations.

2. ABB Enterprise Software maintains strong relationships with a number of vendors, however ABB Enterprise Software are not provided access to every hardware/platform combination for testing purposes. Accordingly the Customer is required to provide ABB Enterprises Software with unrestricted access to the specified hardware/platform combination and Vendor support in order to complete the validation process.

3. ABB Enterprise Software will time limit the validation effort to 2 weeks duration.

4. ABB Enterprise Software requires a minimum of 20 working days’ notice to schedule resources. Consulting project support shall be delivered remotely via phone and email support only.

On completion of the validation exercise, including the sign off of the installation and deployment processes, ABB Enterprise Software will schedule the update of the Supported Platforms Guide to reflect the hardware/platform combination at that point in time for the specified release.



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Platforms Currently Supported – Active Support

The information in the following tables details the versions of Ellipse that are currently supported by ABB as per the Product Support Policy – Ellipse document.

These versions are no longer available for distribution.

The following platforms are currently supported under Active Support.

Ellipse 8

Ellipse 8 introduces a large number of technical differences and simplification of the software involved in delivering the Ellipse suite.

Ellipse Version Operating System1,2 Database


Oracle 11gR2, Oracle 12c (12.1)



8.4 Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3 (Intel x64 based)


8.3 Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.7 (Intel x64 based)


8.1 Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.7 (Intel x64 based) Oracle 11gR2

Notes:

1. Ellipse 8’s operating system is Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux), a Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distribution repackaged, redistributed and supported by Oracle Corporation. Customers should purchase commercial technical support from Oracle Support to ensure they have access to patch distributions.

2. The Oracle Linux support lifecycle can be found at the following location. http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/elsp-lifetime-069338.pdf. Noting that Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 is supported through to March 2017 with Oracle Linux 6 supported through to March 2021. Additional support information can be found at the following link http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/support-439829.html.

Tool Support / User Interface

Operating System Tool1 Supported Version

Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, Windows 8

Internet Explorer

Google Chrome

Firefox

Currently supported versions by the respective vendors and the browser must support Adobe Flash 10 or above Note 1

Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8

Visual Studio:

Approvals Manager Outlook Plugin

Smart Excel Plugin

Office 2007 or above

Notes :

1. Work Planner functionality in Ellipse 8.3 is only available using Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 & 10.

http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/elsp-lifetime-069338.pdf

http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/support-439829.html



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Work Planner functionality in Ellipse 8.4 supports current versions of Google Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9 & 10

Work planner functionality using Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 is only available from versions 8.1.21, 8.3.25 and 8.4.7 or later.

2. Visual Studio - an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft used to provide plugins for Office; particularly the Smart Excel Plugin and Approvals Manager Outlook Plugin

Platforms Currently Supported – Limited / Classic Support

The following platforms are either supported under Limited Support or Classic Support.

Ellipse 6.3.3 Server

Operating System

C/C++ Compiler

COBOL Compiler

Transaction Processor

Web Middleware

Database

IBM AIX 5.3 IBM XL C/C++ 8/9

Server Express 5

TXSeries 6.2 PTF 3

WAS (ND) 7.0 CTG 6

Oracle 11.1

Sun Solaris (SPARC) 10

Sun One Studio C/C++ 10/11

Server Express 5

TXSeries 6.2 PTF 3

WAS (ND) 7.0 CTG 6

Oracle 11.1

HP – HP UX (Itanium) 11iv2/11.23

HP ANSI C A6.10 or later

Server Express 5.1 Wrap Pack 4

TXSeries 6.2 PTF 3

WAS (ND) 7.0 CTG 6

Oracle 11.1

HP – HP UX (Itanium) 11iv3/11.31 (Note 1)

HP ANSI C A6.12 or later

Server Express 5.1 Wrap Pack 4

TXSeries 6.2 PTF 3

WAS (ND) 7.0 CTG 6

Oracle 11.1

HP – HP UX (PA-RISC) 11iv2/11.23

HP ANSI C A.03.70 or later

Server Express 5

TXSeries 6.2 PTF 3

WAS (ND) 7.0 CTG 6

Oracle 11.1


(Note 1)

HP ANSI C A.03.74 or later

Server Express 5

TXSeries 6.2 PTF 3

WAS (ND) 7.0 CTG 6

Oracle 11.1

Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005

Net Express 5 TXSeries 6.2 PTF 3

WAS (ND) 7.0 CTG 6

Oracle 11.1 SQL Server 2005

Windows Server 2008


Net

Express 5.1 TXSeries 7.1

WAS (ND) 7.0 CTG 8.0

Oracle 11.2

Windows Server 2008 (Note 2)


Net Express 5.1 TXSeries 7.1 WAS (ND) 7.0 CTG 8.0

SQL Server 2008

IBM AIX 6.1

IBM XL C/C++ 10

Server

Express 5.1 TXSeries 7.1


Oracle 11.2



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Notes:

1. ABB does not currently have this platform available in-house; however, as the major third party vendors support this platform, an evaluation of the risks has been performed and determined to be low. ABB will support and resolve any issues relating to this platform combination in line with the Ellipse Support Policy. Software distributions will be based on an earlier version of one or more third party products.

2. Several third party components are only supported by the original vendor running on a 32-bit Windows Server 2008 platform. The only components that are supported running on Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) are those based on WebSphere 7.0. Note that at present, ABB does not currently have Windows 2008 R2 in-house; however, as IBM supports this platform, an evaluation of the risks has been performed and determined to be low. ABB will support and resolve any issues relating to this platform combination in line with the Ellipse Support Policy. Software distributions will be based on an earlier version of one or more third party products.

Ellipse 6.3.3 Ellipse Reporting

With the release of Ellipse 6.3.3, there were changes to the structure of Ellipse Reporting to provide customers more flexibility and choice when it comes to their Ellipse reporting needs and integrating them with their corporate reporting strategy. The following options were provided:

1. Transactional/Production Reporting – Provides the capability to do standard printing such as job cards, check prints, invoices, etc.

3. Enhanced Business Intelligence – Provides an optional open ETL layer with star schemas for building a data warehouse and is reporting engine agnostic – this option will be available as an addition to 6.3.x in the future.

4. Premium Business Intelligence – Provides the same capabilities as 1 & 2 above, but includes an embedded reporting engine that is restricted for use with ABB products only.

5. Platinum Business Intelligence – Provides the same capabilities as the Premium option, only the embedded reporting engine is unrestricted.

Please refer to your Account Manager for more information.

Transactional/Production

As of the 6.3.3 release, ABB re-introduced support for RDL core reports as part of the standard customer support agreement. This includes over 600 text-based reports.

Premium – Business Objects

As at the 31st December 2014, ABB will no longer renew support or maintenance of the SAP Business Objects products. Please refer to the Ellipse Reporting (General) section for more information.

With the release of Ellipse 6.3.3, the following table only refers to the Premium option:

Business Objects Version

BO XI 3.1 SP2 BO XI 3.1 SP5

Operating System for Report Server

Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise Edition & Standard Edition & SP1)

Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise Edition & Standard Edition & SP1)

Application / Web Server

Apache Tomcat 5.5

(Note 9)

Apache Tomcat 5.5

(Note 9)

Desktop Windows 2000 SP3 Professional

Windows 2000 SP4 Professional

Windows XP SP1 Professional


Windows Vista





Windows Vista



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Browser IE6 (SP2), IE7, IE8 (compatibility mode only)

IE6 (SP2), IE7, IE8 (compatibility mode only)

IE9

Ellipse Database Refer to supported Ellipse 6.3.3 Server databases

Refer to supported Ellipse 6.3.3 Server databases

Database Connectivity

Oracle Net Client (11.1.0.6)

DB2 Client (8.2,9.1 & 9.5)

ODBC MDAC 2.8

(Note 4)

Oracle Net Client (11.1.0.6)

DB2 Client (8.2,9.1 & 9.5)

ODBC MDAC 2.8

(Note 4)

Business Objects Repository

Oracle 11.1g

DB2 (8.2, 9.1 & 9.5)

SQL Server 2005 (SP1 & SP2)

Oracle 11.1g

DB2 (8.2, 9.1 & 9.5)


Adobe Acrobat Reader

Versions 7.x, 8.1.2 and 9.0 are supported

Note 1: ABB recommends that the Operating System for the Report Server is deployed only for the Business Objects application.

Note 2: Premium and Platinum – Business Objects requires separate report servers for each instance of the Ellipse environments (e.g., Development, Test and Production). This will require customers to either have separate Windows Servers (e.g., Dev, Test and Prod) or, alternatively, the customer could choose to use solutions such as VMware to separate the different environments. Separate report servers are the only ABB supported deployment option.

Note 3: Business Objects supports a variety of other platforms, application servers and browsers natively. However, Premium/Platinum – Business Objects is only supported in the above environments.

Note 4: Connectivity uses the native clients (Oracle Net Client, DB2 Client, and ODBC). Connectivity is needed for the Ellipse Database and the Business Objects Repository. If the database is different for Ellipse to the Business Objects Repository, the relevant connectivity would be required for each (i.e., if Ellipse is Oracle and Repository is SQL Server).

Note 5: The Business Objects repository can be deployed as a separate schema within the Ellipse database or on its own Database instance. Which option is chosen depends on a number of site specific factors including Server capacity and Database product licensing.

Note 6: ABB recommends that the link between the report server and the repository must be a minimum of a 100 MBit link.

Note 7: Premium/Platinum – Currently includes an embedded Business Objects license – mechanism for deployment of reports is via InfoView.

Note 8: Premium/Platinum – Currently includes an embedded Business Objects license – uses Web Intelligence for creation of all standard reports. Premium/Platinum customers can develop their own reports in either Web Intelligence or embedded Business Objects Desktop Intelligence (full client). However, only Web Intelligence reports provide integration with the Ellipse application (i.e., Mincom Scheduler, front end reporting, same sign-on).



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Note 9: Premium/Platinum – The Apache Tomcat software is released with the solution as standard. Minor revisions of both Apache and Tomcat are supported; however, the customer must supply and install their own copies of these versions for use with Ellipse Reporting.

Note 10: Effective from Ellipse 6.3.3, Transactional/Production Reporting is the supported base reporting solution.

Note 11: Customers are advised this release of Ellipse Reporting will continue to be offered in English as the standard solution.

Ellipse 6.3.2 Server

Operating System

C/C++ Compiler

COBOL Compiler


Web Middleware

Database

IBM AIX 5.3 IBM XL

C/C++ 8/9

Server Express 5

TXSeries 6.2 WAS (ND) 6.0 CTG 6

Oracle 10.2


Sun One Studio

C/C++ 10/11

Server Express 5


Oracle 10.2

HP – HP UX (Itanium) 11iv2/11.23

HP ANSI C

A6.10 or later

Server

Express 5.1

Wrap Pack 3 +TXSeries Fix


Oracle 10.2


HP ANSI C

A.03.70 or later

Server Express 5


Oracle 10.2

Windows Server 2003


Net Express 5 TXSeries 6.2 WAS (ND) 6.0 CTG 6

Oracle 10.2

SQL Server 2005

Ellipse 6.3.2 Ellipse Reporting


Ellipse 6.3.2 was originally released support Business Objects XI 3.0. From 31 January 2010, patches for Reports, Universes, and other components will only be available for Business Objects 3.1 SP2.

Business Objects Version BO XI 3.1 SP2


Windows Server 2003

(Enterprise Edition & Standard Edition & SP1)

Application / Web Server Apache Tomcat 5.5

(Note 9)





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Windows Vista

Browser IE6 (SP2), IE7, IE8 (compatibility mode only)

Ellipse Database Refer to supported Ellipse 6.3.2 Server databases

Database Connectivity Oracle Net Client (11.1.0.6)

DB2 Client (8.2,9.1 & 9.5)

ODBC MDAC 2.8

(Note 4)

Business Objects Repository Oracle 11.1g

DB2 (8.2, 9.1 & 9.5)


Adobe Acrobat Reader

Versions 7.x, 8.1.2 and 9.0 are supported

Note 1: ABB recommends that the operating system for the report server is deployed only for the Business Objects application.

Note 2: Ellipse Reporting requires separate report servers for each instance of the Ellipse environments (e.g., Development, Test and Production). This will require customers to either have separate Windows Servers (Dev, Test and Prod), or alternatively the customer could choose to use solutions such as VMware to separate the different environments. Separate report servers are the only ABB supported deployment option.

Note 3: Business Objects supports a variety of other platforms, application servers and browsers natively. However, MER – Business Objects is only supported in the above environments.

Note 4: Connectivity uses the native clients (Oracle Net Client, DB2 Client, and ODBC). Connectivity is needed for the Ellipse database and the Business Objects repository. If the database is different for Ellipse to the Business Objects repository, the relevant connectivity would be required for each (i.e., if Ellipse is Oracle and the repository is SQL Server).

Note 5: The Business Objects repository can be deployed as a separate schema within the Ellipse database, or on its own database instance. Which option is chosen depends on a number of site specific factors including server capacity and database product licensing.


Note 7: ABB's standard mechanism for deployment of reports is via InfoView.

Note 8: MER uses Web Intelligence for creation of all standard reports. Customers can develop their own reports in either Web Intelligence or Business Objects Desktop Intelligence (full client). However, only Web Intelligence reports provide integration with the Ellipse application (i.e., Mincom Scheduler, front end reporting, same sign-on).

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Note 10: For this release, ABB supports the RDL infrastructure required to run RDL reports. ABB also supplied all existing RDL reports that we may have shipped in the past as part of the core product, however, these reports were provided as is, are NOT maintained by ABB, and are NOT covered under the standard customer support agreements.

Note 11: Business Objects is only supported on Windows Server 2003 32-bit versions.


Ellipse 6.3.1/6.2.x Server

Operating System

C/C++ Compiler

COBOL Compiler


Web Middleware

Database

IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3

IBM Visual Age C/C++ 6

Server Express 4

TXSeries 5.1 WAS (ND) 6.0 CTG 5.1

Oracle 10.2 DB2 8.1

Sun Solaris (SPARC) 9/10

Sun One Studio C/C++ 10/11

Server Express 4

TXSeries 5.1 (Note 2)


Oracle 10.2 (Note 1)

DB2 8.1 (Sol 9 only)


HP ANSI C (all versions)

Server Express 4

TXSeries 5.1 WAS (ND) 6.0 CTG 5.1

Oracle 10.2 DB2 8.1

Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Net Express 4 TXSeries 5.1 WAS (ND) 6.0 CTG 5.1

Oracle 10.2 SQL Server 2005

Note 1: Solaris 10 with CTG 5.1 and Oracle 10.2 requires a special fix. Please contact ABB prior to installation.

Note 2: Solaris 10 Containers are not supported with TXSeries 5.1.

Ellipse 6.3.1/6.2.x Ellipse Reporting


Business Objects Version 6.5.4


Windows Server 2003

(Enterprise Edition &

Standard Edition &SP1) with

Sun JVM 1.4.2.02

(Notes 1 & 2)

Application / Web Server Apache 2.0.50 Tomcat 5.0.28

(Note 9)



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Desktop Windows 2000 SP3 Prof

Windows 2000 SP4 Prof

Windows XP SP1 Prof

Windows XP SP2 Prof

Browser IE6 (SP1&2)

Ellipse Database See supported Ellipse 6.3.1/6.2.x Server databases

Database Connectivity Oracle Net Client (10.2)

DB2 Client (8.1 & 8.2)

ODBC MDAC 2.7 &2.8

(Note 4)


DB2 (8.1 & 8.2)

SQL Server 2005

Adobe Acrobat LDAP Server

Versions below 6.01 required if ability to upload and store PDFs in the repository is desired; otherwise versions 5.x, 6.x and 7.x supported.

Active Directory 2000 SP3 & SP4

Active Directory 2003


Note 2: Ellipse Reporting requires for each instance of the Ellipse environments (e.g., Development, Test and Production). This will require customers to either have separate Windows Servers (Dev, Test and Prod), or alternatively the customer could choose to use solutions such as VMware to separate the different environments. Separate report servers are the only ABB supported deployment option.


Note 4: Connectivity uses the native clients (Oracle Net Client, DB2 Client, and ODBC). Connectivity is needed for the Ellipse database and the Business Objects repository. If the database is different for Ellipse to the Business Objects repository, the relevant connectivity would be required for each (i.e., if Ellipse is Oracle and the repository is SQL Server).

Note 5: The Business Objects repository can be deployed as a separate schema within the Ellipse database, or on its own database instance. ABB recommends using the same database for both.


Note 7: ABB's standard mechanism for deployment of reports is via InfoView.

Note 8: MER uses Web Intelligence for creation of all standard reports. Customers can develop their own reports in either Web Intelligence or Business Objects full client. However, only Web Intelligence reports provide integration with the Ellipse application (i.e., Mincom Scheduler, front end reporting).

Note 9: The Apache Tomcat software is released with the solution as standard. Minor revisions of both Apache and Tomcat are supported; however, customer must supply and install their own copies of these versions for use with Business Objects.



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Note 10: For this release, ABB supports the RDL infrastructure required to run RDL reports. ABB also supplied all existing RDL reports that we may have shipped in the past as part of the core product; however, these reports were provided as is, are NOT maintained by ABB, and are NOT covered under the standard customer support agreements.



Ellipse 6.1 Server

Operating System

C/C++ Compiler

COBOL Compiler


Web Middleware

Database Ellipse Reporting

IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3

IBM Visual Age

C/C++ 6

Server Express 4

TXSeries 5.1 WAS 5.1

CTG 5.1

Oracle 10.2

DB2 8.1

See below

Tuxedo 8.1 Oracle 10.2


Sun One Studio

C/C++ 10/11

Server Express 4

TXSeries 5.1 (Note 2)

WAS 5.1

CTG 5.1


DB2 8.1

Tuxedo 8.1 /9.1 Oracle 10.2

HP – HP UX (PA-RISC) 11i v1/11.11


Server Express 4


CTG 5.1

Oracle 10.2

DB2 8.1

Tuxedo 8.1 Oracle 10.2

Windows Server 2003


Net Express 4

Tuxedo 8.1

Oracle 10.2

SQL Server 2000


CTG 5.1

Oracle 10.2

SQL Server 2000

IBM

Z/OS 1.4 CICS TS 2.x

DB2 V 7

Not available



Ellipse 6.1 Ellipse Reporting


Business Objects Version 6.5.2 or later 6.5.x



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Operating System for Report Server Windows 2000 SP4 (Server & Advanced Server) with Sun JVM 1.4.2.02

OR

Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise Edition & Standard Edition &SP1) with Sun JVM 1.4.2.02

(Notes 1 & 2)


(Note 9)





Browser IE6 (SP1&2)

Ellipse Database See supported Ellipse 6.1 Server databases

Database Connectivity Oracle Net Client (10.1 &10.2)

DB2 Client (8.1 & 8.2)

ODBC MDAC 2.7 & 2.8

(Note 4)


DB2 (8.1 & 8.2)









Note 4: Connectivity uses the native clients (Oracle Net Client, DB2 Client, and ODBC 2000). Connectivity is needed for the Ellipse database and the Business Objects repository. If the database is different for Ellipse to the Business Objects repository, the relevant connectivity would be required for each (i.e., if Ellipse is Oracle and the repository is SQL Server).



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Note 7: ABB’s standard mechanism for deployment of reports is via InfoView.


Note 9: The Apache Tomcat software is released with the solution as standard. Minor revisions of both Apache and Tomcat are supported; however, customer must supply and install their own copies of these versions for use with Business Objects.

Note 10: For this release, ABB supports the RDL infrastructure required to run RDL reports. ABB also supplied all existing RDL reports that we may have shipped in the past as part of the core product, however, these reports were provided as is, are NOT maintained by ABB, and are NOT covered under the standard customer support agreements.





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Ellipse 5.2.3.8 Server

The platforms for service pack 8 for Ellipse 5.2.3 are based on the same platforms as for Ellipse 5.2.3.7.

Operating System

C/C++ Compiler

COBOL Compiler


Web Middleware

Database Ellipse Reporting

IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3

IBM Visual Age

C/C++ 6

Server Express 4


CTG 5.1

Oracle 9i

Oracle 10.2

DB2 8.1

BO 6.5.x only

See also below

Tuxedo 8.1 Oracle 9i

Oracle 10.2


Sun One Studio

C/C++ 10/11

Server Express 4

TXSeries 5.1

(Note 2)

WAS 5.1

CTG 5.1

Oracle 9i


DB2 8.1

Tuxedo 8.1 /9.1

Oracle 9i

Oracle 10.2

HP – HP UX (PA-RISC) 11i v1/11.11

HP ANSI C

(all versions)

Server Express 4


CTG 5.1

Oracle 9i

Oracle 10.2

DB2 8.1

Tuxedo 8.1 Oracle 9i

Oracle 10.2

Windows Server 2003


Net Express 4

Tuxedo 8.1

Oracle 9i

Oracle 10.2

SQL Server 2000


CTG 5.1

Oracle 9i Oracle 10.2

SQL Server 2000

IBM

Z/OS 1.4 CICS TS 2.x

DB2 V 7

Not available





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Ellipse 5.2.3.8 Ellipse Reporting




OR


(Notes 1 & 2)


(Note 9)





Browser IE6 (SP1&2)

Ellipse Database See supported Ellipse 5.2.3.8 Server databases

Database Connectivity Oracle Net Client 9.2

DB2 Client (8.1 & 8.2)

ODBC MDAC 2.7 &2.8

(Note 4)

Business Objects Repository Oracle 9i

DB2 (8.1 & 8.2)










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Note 9: The Apache Tomcat software is released with the solution as standard. Minor revisions of both Apache and Tomcat are supported; however, the customer must supply and install their own copies of these versions for use with Business Objects.


Note 11: ABB will continue to support Ellipse Reporting based on Business Objects 6.5 for customers operating Ellipse versions 5.2.3.7/8 in accordance with the published Release Lifecycle map, and will not be offering Business Objects XI support on these releases. Customers wishing to utilize Ellipse Reporting based on BO XI should plan to upgrade to Ellipse 6.3.3.


Ellipse 5.2.3.7 Server

Operating

System

C/C++

Compiler

COBOL

Compiler

Transaction

Processor

Web

Middleware Database

IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3

IBM Visual Age

C/C++ 6

Server Express 2.2, 4

TXSeries 5, 5.1

WAS 5.1

CTG 5

Oracle 9i

DB2 8.1

Tuxedo 8.1 WebLogic 8.1 Oracle 9i


Sun One Studio

C/C++ 7/8/9/10


TXSeries 5, 5.1 WAS AE 4.03

CTG 5 Oracle 9i

Tuxedo 8.1


Sun One Studio

C/C++ 7/8/9/10


TXSeries 5, 5.1

WAS 5.1

CTG 5

Oracle 9i

DB2 8.1


HP - HP UX 11i v1 /11,11 (PA-RISC)

HP ANSI C

(all versions)


TXSeries 5, 5.1

WAS 5.1

CTG 5

Oracle 9i

DB2 8.1




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Operating

System

C/C++

Compiler

COBOL

Compiler

Transaction

Processor

Web

Middleware Database

HP - HP UX 11i v2/11.23 (Itanium)




HP – Tru64 5.1b

Compaq C/C++ (all versions)



Windows 2000 Microsoft Visual

Studio .NET

Net Express 3.1, 4

Tuxedo 8.1 WebLogic 8.1

Oracle 9i

SQL Server 2000

TXSeries 5, 5.1 WAS 5.1

CTG 5

Oracle 9i

SQL Server 2000

Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Visual

Studio .NET Net Express 4

Tuxedo 8.1 WebLogic 8.1

Oracle 9i

SQL Server 2000

TXSeries 5, 5.1 WAS 5.1

CTG 5

Oracle 9i

SQL Server 2000

IBM Z/OS 1.3 CICS TS 2.x CTG 5 DB2 V 7

Ellipse 5.2.3.7 Ellipse Reporting




OR


(Notes 1 & 2)


(Note 9)







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Browser IE6 (SP1&2)

Ellipse Database See supported Ellipse 5.2.3.7 Server databases

Database Connectivity Oracle Net Client 9.2

DB2 Client (8.1 & 8.2)

ODBC MDAC 2.7 &2.8

(Note 4)

Business Objects Repository Oracle 9i

DB2 (8.1 & 8.2)














Note 9: The Apache Tomcat software is released with the solution as standard. Minor revisions of both Apache and Tomcat are supported; however, the customer must supply and install their own copies of these versions for use with Business Objects.


Note 11: ABB will continue to support Ellipse Reporting based on Business Objects 6.5 for customers operating Ellipse versions 5.2.3.7/8 in accordance with the published Release Lifecycle map, and will not be offering Business Objects XI support on these releases. Customers wishing to utilize Ellipse Reporting based on BO XI should plan to upgrade to Ellipse 6.3.3.



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Ellipse Reporting (General)

Support Plan for Ellipse Reporting and Business Objects Versions

As at 31st December 2014, ABB will no longer renew support, maintenance, software distributions or product licenses for SAP Business Objects (BOBJ) products. The information regarding BOBJ remains for reference purposes only. Dates are correct at the time of publishing, but may change at the discretion of SAP.

SAP Business Objects ceased standard support for BO 6.5 30 June 2009. Support and product licenses for these versions are no longer available.

If you have any questions regarding your support requirements or migration plans for Ellipse Reporting and BO, please contact your ABB Account Manager.

Key Points

Customers are advised this release of Ellipse Reporting will continue to be offered in English as the standard solution.

ABB will continue to Support Ellipse Reporting based on Business Objects related components (eg Reports and Universes), in accordance with the published Release Lifecycle map. An upgrade path to Ellipse 8 Production Reporting is available to customers currently using Ellipse versions in limited support.

Note: Other Ellipse Reporting version-specific details are provided under Ellipse Server headings

VMware Virtual Environments

ABB supports customers running Ellipse 6.3.3 or prior in a VMware virtual machine environment, provided that the particular operating system release is supported by both Ellipse and VMware and that the third party products in use are supported running in a VMware environment.

While ABB products are expected to function correctly in a VMware virtual environment, the performance characteristics may differ from standalone server implementations. To alleviate the risk of the difference, it is recommended that customers follow VMware’s best practices, particularly in regards to tuning and server loading. If customers wish to run their production Ellipse environments within a VMware virtual environment, it is recommended that the implementation is reviewed as part of an ABB Technical Planning Study.

Note that should ABB suspect that the virtualization layer is the root cause of an issue, ABB reserves the right to ask the customer to reproduce the issue on native hardware and if necessary will request the customer contact the appropriate VMware support provider to resolve the VMware issue.

ABB may, at its discretion, support the non-Production use of Ellipse in a VMware environment where explicit third party support of VMware does not exist.

Clients, User Interface, PC Products and Scripting Support Platforms

This section outlines the user interface, PC products and scripting languages supported for specific Ellipse versions.

Products and Scripting Languages

The user interfaces, PC products and scripting languages covered in this section are as follows:

ASCII/3270 terminals, which provide dumb terminal access to Ellipse functionality.



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ReportLink, which provides a graphical interface to the creation of RDLs.

Ellipse Output Designer, which provides a Windows based tool for form development.

Ellipse Scripting, which provides scripting ability to various tasks including uploading information into Ellipse and replaces MINT (note that the Ellipse Scripting in 5.2.1 is not compatible with Ellipse 5.2.3 since Ellipse 5.2.3 uses VBA scripting).

Ellipse WinView is the enhanced Windows user interface for Ellipse 5.2.3 onwards.

Ellipse WinView Client Layout Editor provides a Windows based tool for the manipulation (moving and hiding of screen information) of the screen layout.

Ellipse WebView is the enhanced web user interface for Ellipse 5.2.3 onwards.

Web/HTML Clients, which are web-enabled applications.

Windows Terminal Server Edition Clients (Windows TSE, RDP Clients), which provides a method of deploying Windows 32 bit applications onto a central Windows Server 2003 with Terminal Services.

Visual Studio - an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft used provide plugins for Office; particularly the Smart Excel Plugin and Approvals Manager Outlook Plugin

MIMS Scripting, which provides scripting ability to various tasks including uploading information into MIMS.

Ellipse Window Designer is an ABB-developed tool that provides XML screen customization for Ellipse 5.2.3 onwards.

Currently Supported Ellipse Pre-Ellipse 8 Releases

Release Products Available Supported Client Platform Support

Ellipse 6.3.3

ASCII and 3270

Type Terminals

TX Series only

3270 Terminals

Windows Designer Yes Windows XP Pro SP3

Windows 2003 platforms

ReportLink Yes

Windows XP Pro SP3


Windows 7 32 bit only

WinView incl Desktop Yes

Windows XP Pro SP3


Windows 2008 platforms (Note 1)

Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit (Note 1)

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) 7 (IE 7) & 8 (IE8)

WebView Yes Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), 7 (IE 7) & 8 (IE8)

Web/HTML Clients Yes Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), 7 (IE 7) & 8 (IE8)

TSE Client Yes TSE/RDP Clients & Citrix ICA Clients



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(supporting MPSE 3.0 R05, MPSE 4.0 or later)

TSE Servers Yes

Windows 2003 with Terminal services

Windows 2008 (32 bit) with Terminal services

Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit) with Terminal services

Ellipse Scripting Yes

Windows XP Pro SP3


Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

Note 1: Support of the Ellipse WinView including Desktop on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 platforms requires the use of Ellipse 6.3.3 Build 12 (August 2012) or later

While the use of IE7 and IE8 is supported, the use of multiple sessions, including tabs, from a single instance of the browser to Ellipse is not supported.


Ellipse 6

(6.3.2, 6.3.1, 6.2, 6.1)

ASCII and 3270

Type Terminals

TX Series only

3270 Terminals

Windows Designer Yes Windows XP Pro SP3


ReportLink Yes Windows XP Pro SP3


WinView incl Desktop Yes

Windows XP Pro SP3



WebView Yes Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

Web/HTML Clients Yes Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

TSE Client Yes

TSE/RDP Clients & Citrix ICA Clients


TSE Servers Yes Windows 2003 with Terminal services

Ellipse Scripting Yes

Windows XP Pro SP3





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Ellipse 5.2.3

ASCII and 3270

Type Terminals

TX Series only

3270 Terminals

Windows Designer Yes

Windows XP Pro SP3



ReportLink Yes Windows XP Pro SP3


Output Designer Yes Windows 2003 platforms

WinView Yes

Windows XP Pro SP3



WebView Yes Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

Web/HTML Clients Yes Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

TSE Client Yes

TSE/RDP Clients & Citrix ICA Clients


TSE Servers Yes

Windows 2000 with Terminal services &

Citrix Presentation Servers (MPSE 3.0 R05, MPSE 4.0 or MPSE 4.5)

Windows 2003 with Terminal services

Ellipse Scripting Yes Windows XP Pro SP3




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Ellipse Ancillary Products

Approvals Manager

Approvals Manager is not support with WebSphere 7.

For information regarding Approvals Manager, please contact your ABB Enterprise Software Account Manager or ABB Enterprise Software Global Customer Care.

Recommended Platform

Windows: It is recommended that Approvals Manager be implemented on a separate Windows server.

Envoy Buyer 2.3

Release Ellipse

Release Component Supported Platforms Other Requirements

Build 5 5.2.3.8 to 6.3.x

Client Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

IE 6.1

Server Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 server

ASP, Microsoft JVM, Build 3810, IIS

Build 5

Patch 1 5.2.3.8 to 6.3.x

Client Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

IE 6.1

Server Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 server

ASP, Microsoft JVM, Build 3810, IIS

Compatibility testing of IE7 and IE8 with Envoy Buyer is currently in progress. Please contact your Account Manager for more information


Windows: It is recommended that Envoy Buyer be implemented on a separate Windows server.

Ellipse Analytics

Release Ellipse


3.0 8.5 or later Server Windows 2008R2 Sever or Windows 2012 Server

SQL Server 2014 Enterprise or Business Edition

SSIS and SSAS components selected

Attunity Oracle Driver for SSIS



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Release Ellipse


Power BI Enterprise Gateway


Windows: It is recommended that Ellipse Analytics be implemented on a separate Windows server.

Ellipse Mobile

Ellipse Mobile Platform - Server

Note: A Mobile Server is required for all mobile applications unless otherwise noted.

OEM Release

Operating System Database Other

5.6.1

Windows Server 2003, 2008

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

SQL Server 2005, 2008

Oracle 9i, 10g

.NET 2.0 or higher

Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher

Internet Information Services

MDAC1

4.1 and 4.2

Mobile Platform Components

AMP 3.1

Windows Server 2008 32 bit

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.x

(with JBoss 5.1)

SQL Server 2005, 2008

Oracle 10g, 11g

Requires Ventyx Integration Platform 2.1.1021

.NET 3.5 or higher

Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher

Internet Information Services

MDAC Note: Available as a standalone platform or underlying platform for Mobile applications – contact product marketing for further details.

5.0

Mobile Platform Components

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 or greater

Oracle 10g, 11g

JBoss 5.1 and JDK 6 is included with the installer

Requires Ventyx Integration Platform 2.1.

Mobile Server requires Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, or Google Chrome 31 or higher

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Ellipse Mobile Inspector

Release Ellipse Release Component Supported Platforms Other Requirements

2.5

Work Planner 3.36 or higher (and matching Ellipse release)

PDA or Laptop / Tablet Client

Windows Mobile 6.0, 6.1

Windows 7/XP/Tablet

.NET 2.0 or higher

SQL Server 2005 (Express)

1024 MB RAM (min)

Graphics Card/Monitor at 1024x768

See certified devices list

4.1

Ellipse 6.3.3 and

Work Planner version 4.1 or higher or Work Planner 3.36.20 or higher

OR

Ellipse 8.3.4 or higher and Work Planner version 4.1 or higher

Laptop / Tablet Client

Windows7/XP/Tablet

.NET 3.5 or higher

SQL Server CE 3.5

1024 MB RAM (min)



4.2

8.3.4 or higher

Work Planner version 4.2 or higher


Windows7/XP/Tablet

.NET 3.5 or higher

SQL Server CE 3.5

1024 MB RAM (min)



4.2.1

Ellipse 8.3.18 or higher

Work Planner 4.2

Tablet Client Windows 8.0

Mobile Platform 5.0

Min device specs. 2GB RAM (min), Processor Min 7.8GHz, Hard Drive 64 GB min, Wireless IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n, 1024x768 resolution

OS – Windows 8.0 32-bit or 64-bit

Note – Windows 8.0 Acer Iconia W510 Tablet (1366X768) was used for verification



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Ellipse Mobile Worker


4.1

Ellipse 6.3 and

Work Planner version 4.1 or higher or Work Planner 3.36.20 or higher

OR

8.3.4 or higher and Work Planner 4.1


Windows7/XP/Tablet

.NET 3.5 or higher

SQL Server CE 3.5

1024 MB RAM (min)



4.2


Work Planner 4.2 or higher


Windows7/XP/Tablet

.NET 3.5 or higher

SQL Server CE 3.5

1024 MB RAM (min)



4.2.1


Work Planner 4.2

Tablet Client Windows 8.0

Mobile Platform 5.0

Min device specs. 2GB RAM (min), Processor Min 7.8GHz, Hard Drive 64 GB min, Wireless IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n, 1024x768 resolution

OS – Windows 8.0 32-bit or 64-bit

Note – Windows 8.0 Acer Iconia W510 Tablet (1366X768) was used for verification

Mobile Locator (Optional)


Mobile Inspector

Mobile Worker

n/a Laptop / Tablet Client

Windows 7/XP/Tablet Mobile Locator is optional and requires devices with in-built GPS capability.



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Work Planner

Support

Release Ellipse Version Supported Platforms Other Requirements

3.34, 3.35, 3.36 5.2.3.7 or 5.2.3.8 (Note 1),

6.1.x, 6.2.x, 6.3.x

Windows 2003 (Enterprise Edition & Standard Edition)


IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Network Deployment (ND) 7.0

3.36 8.1.x As per Ellipse 8 technology stack

4.1 6.3.x Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 (Intel x64 based)

JBoss (Provided)

4.2 8.3.18+ As per Ellipse 8 technology stack

4.3 8.4.1+ As per Ellipse 8 technology stack



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LinkOne

General Support Availability

For general information regarding the support of LinkOne, please refer to the LinkOne Supported Platforms document.

LinkOne Integration

Ellipse provides integration with LinkOne. The table below shows the supported combinations for versions of Ellipse and LinkOne.

Ellipse Version LinkOne version

8.x LinkOne WebView 3.6 or greater

6.3.x

6.2.x

LinkOne WinView version 5.x

6.1.x LinkOne WinView version 4.x

LinkOne WinView version 5.x

5.2.3.x LinkOne WinView version 4.x



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Retirement Dates for Ellipse-related Third-Party Products

This document represents the current published end of support dates for third-party software known to ABB at the time of publication. These dates are subject to change by the vendor.

Vendor Product & Version First General

Release End of Support

Extended Support

Oracle/BEA [1]

Tuxedo 6.5 01-Jan-99 31-Jan-07 31-Jan-09

Tuxedo 7.1 01-Apr-00 30-Apr-06 30-Apr-08

Tuxedo 8.1 01-Feb-03 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-11

Tuxedo 9.1 01-Jun-06 30-Jun-12 30-Jun-14

WebLogic 8.1 15-Jul-03 30-Sep-09 30-Sep-11

BSI

ComplianceFactory 3.1

07-Sep-01 01-Oct-09

ComplianceFactory 4.0 Web based

06-Oct-09

TaxFactory 6.0 26-Jul-99 31-May-05

TaxFactory 7.0 25-Sep-03 31-Dec-07

TaxFactory 8.0 05-Jun-07 31-Aug-11

TaxFactory 9.0

TaxFactory 10.0

24-May-11

04-Aug-14

30-Nov-14

Business Objects

Business Objects 6.5 Sept-04 30-Jun-09

Business Objects XI 3.0

Apr-2008 31-Dec-2015

CorVu

4.3.1

General advice and troubleshooting may be provided but no bugs will be fixed

5.00

5.01

5.10 It is unlikely that there will be any further Production Release of 5.10.

5.11 5.11.437 is likely to be the last production release. 5.11.447 contains bug fixes for certain customers, but will not go further than limited production.

5.20 No dates available – contact Rocket Software

http://support.bea.com/support_news/support_lifecycle/bea_product_retirement_plan.jsp



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Extended Support

Antenna/ Dexterra

Dexterra Concert 3.5 Mar-2005 Retired December 2008.

Dexterra Concert 5.6.1

Antenna AMP 3.0

Dec-2008

Q3 2011

No specific date at this time.

No specific date at this time.

Available on request

HP HP UX 11.0

HP UX 11iv1/11.11

01-Feb-05

31-Dec-15

HP UX 11iv2/11.23

HP UX 11i v3/11, 31

31-Dec-15

31-Dec-20

IBM [2]

AIX 5.3 Info not available

DB2 UDB 7.1

1-Sep-04

DB2 UDB 7.2 1-Sep-04

DB2 UDB 8.1 1-Apr-06

DB2 7 Z/OS 30-Jun-08

CTG v5 30-Apr-06

CTG v5 (z/OS) No longer supported

CTG v6

CTG v7.1

CTG v7.2

CTG v8

30-Sep-2010

30-Sep-2013

30-Apr-2014

30-Apr-2016

CICS TS 2.2 (z/OS) 1-Apr-05

TX Series 5.0 (AIX) 15-Mar-02 30-Apr-07

TX Series 5.0 (HPUX) 01-Nov02 30-Apr-07

TX Series 5.0 (Solaris)

01-Nov-02 30-Apr-07

TX Series 5.0 (WinNT, Win2k)

15-Mar-02 30-Apr-07

TX Series 5.1 04-Jun-04 30-Apr-08 30-Apr-09

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/supportlifecycle/list/c.html



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Extended Support

TX Series 6.2

TX Series 7.1

04-Jan-08

21-Apr-2009

30-Sep-2013

30-Sep-2016

WAS 5.0 3-Jan-03 30-Sep-06

WAS 5.1 16-Jan-04 26-Sep-08

WAS 5.1 (z/OS) 28-May-04 30-Sep-08

WAS 6.0 31-Dec-04 30-Sep-10

WAS 7.0 17-Oct-08 Info not available

WebSphere Portal 5.1 31-Dec-2004 30-Sep-08

WebSphere Portal 6.0 24-Aug-2006 30-Apr-12

Micro Focus [3]

Server Express 2.2 31-Dec-04 31-Dec-05

Server Express 4.0 31-Dec-06 31-Dec-07

Server Express 5.0 31-Jul-10 31-Jul-10

Server Express 5.1 Info not available

Net Express 3.1 31-Dec-05 31-Dec-06

Net Express 4.0 31-Dec-06 31-Dec-07

Net Express 5.0 31-Jul-10 31-Jul-10

Net Express 5.1 Info not available

Microsoft [4]

Windows 2000 30-Jun-05 30-Jun-10

Windows 2003 28-May-08 28-May-13

SQL Server 2000 04-Aug-08 04-Aug-13

SQL Server 2005 04-Dec-11 04-Dec-16

Oracle [5]

Oracle Database 8i 31-Dec-04 31-Dec-06

Oracle Database 9i 1-Jul-07 1-Jul-10

Oracle Database 10.2 1-Jul-10 1-Feb-13

Oracle 11.1 Aug-2007 1-Aug-12 1-Aug-15

Oracle 11.2 Sep-2009 1-Jan-15 1-Jan18

Linux 5 Mar 2007 Mar 2017 N/A

http://www.microfocus.com/products/advisory/withdrawalschedule.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx

http://metalink.oracle.com/



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Extended Support

Linux 6 Feb 2011 Mar 2012 N/A

Panviva Panviva 5.16 March 2005 February 2006 None

Panviva 6 September 2005 September 2005 None

Panviva 6.2 February 2006 March 2007

Since Panviva SupportPoint is part of the ABB product, MEPS, ABB Enterprise Software Global Customer Care for MEPS continues until the customer invalidates their license agreement. Customers are encouraged to update their Panviva software to the current level regardless of the version of Ellipse they are on.

TBD

Panviva 6.4 September 2006 TBD None

Panviva 7.0 Estimated Oct 2008 TBD None

Oracle/Sun [6]

Solaris 8 1-Feb-06 1-Feb-07

Solaris 9 30/10/2009 30/10/2014

Solaris 10 Jan 2018

Travis Travis Cobra 7.304 Jul-05 No 'End of Support' date.

Support continues until the customer invalidates their licensing agreement.

Customers continue to receive updates as they become available.

Support begins after the access code is provided to the customer.

The customer is provided 90 days FREE support. Thereafter the customer is invoiced for the support maintenance fee.

http://www.sun.com/service/support/eosl/solaris/esol_solaris_hardcopy.html



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Refer to the appropriate third party website for the latest current support dates for these products:

Oracle/BEA

Oracle/BEA Product Retirement

http://www.oracle.com/support/library/brochure/lifetime-support-middleware.pdf

HP

HP-UX Operating System Release History

http://www.hp.com/softwarereleases/releases-media2/history/slide2.html

IBM

IBM Software Support Lifecycle

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/supportlifecycle

Micro Focus

Product Withdrawal Schedule Information,

http://www.microfocus.com/products/Withdrawal/WithdrawalSchedule.asp

Microsoft

Microsoft Product Lifecycle Search

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/

Oracle Linux

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/overview/lifecycle-135324.html

Oracle Software Products

Oracle Product Support

http://www.oracle.com/support/library/brochure/lifetime-support-technology.pdf

Oracle/Sun Microsystems

Sun EOSL Software Information,

http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf

BSI

Business Systems Inc.

http://www.bsi.com

http://www.oracle.com/support/library/brochure/lifetime-support-middleware.pdf

http://www.hp.com/softwarereleases/releases-media2/history/slide2.html

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/supportlifecycle

http://www.microfocus.com/products/Withdrawal/WithdrawalSchedule.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/


http://www.oracle.com/support/library/brochure/lifetime-support-technology.pdf


http://www.bsi.com/

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