Before you install Unwired Accelerator, you must:
Install Adaptive Server Enterprise, Enterprise Edition. Keep in mind the following:
Page size – when you create the Adaptive Server, it is imperative to set the page size to 8K or larger, otherwise the Unwired Accelerator installer stops and will not proceed. Once you set the page size to 8K or larger, you can restart the installation. A page size of 8K or larger avoids data truncation problems later when running Unwired Accelerator.
Localization with UTF-8 – to support non-English data, be sure to configure Adaptive Server with character set UTF-8. To do so, follow the Adaptive Server Enterprise installation/configuration menus, or run /$SYBASE/ASE-15_0/bin/asecfg to localize an existing server with the UTF-8 character set.
See the Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0.1 installation guide and release bulletin for installation procedures. The Adaptive Server Enterprise guides are located on the Getting Started CD.
Create an Adaptive Server Enterprise data device and log device to act as a data store for Unwired Accelerator. You can use any method you like to create the devices, including using your own scripts, but you must use these exact device names and minimum sizes:
portalData – name for the data device (minimum size 250MB).
portalLog – name for the log device (minimum size 75MB).
uamlData – name for the MobiLink data device (minimum size 150MB).
uamlLog – name for the MobiLink log device (minimum size 75MB).
See the Adaptive Server Enterprise Administration Guide and the Adaptive Server Enterprise Performance and Tuning Guide for additional information.
You can select to have the Unwired Accelerator installer
create the devices, although Sybase does not recommend this option.
File-based devices do not take full advantage of Adaptive Server
Enterprise data store features.
Start Adaptive Server Enterprise before you start the Unwired Accelerator installation.
Verify that there is a “.” (dot) in the PATH environment variable.
Verify that the $JAVA_HOME environment variable points to a valid JVM directory.
Add $JAVA_HOME/bin to PATH.
Verify that you have write permission on your login home directory, and the directory where you install the software.
You must have a home directory, such as /usr/u/username,
on the IBM Linux POWER machine, otherwise the Unwired Accelerator
installer cannot find the location for UA 8.0 and reports errors.
If you are uninstalling Unwired Accelerator, verify you have write permission on the temporary directory, typically /tmp. Uninstallation logs are written to /tmp.
Verify that you have 100MB free space in your temporary directory, typically /tmp; otherwise, the installation fails.
If you do not have enough space in your /tmp directory, redirect the installer to use a different directory for temporary space.
The temporary directory to which you are redirecting
must exist before you set the environment variable.
To redirect your temporary directory, enter:
./setupLinux.bin -is:tempdir /work/tmp
where /work/tmp is the directory of your choice.
Know the domain name of the machine where you are installing Unwired Accelerator. To find your domain name, contact your system administrator, or at a command prompt, enter:
hostname --fqdn
Your host and domain displays, for example, lapxp.sybase.com,
where sybase.com is the
domain name.
Install any Sybase EBFs listed in the release bulletin.
If you plan to use MobiLink server to deploy mobile applications, identify a suitable Windows 2003 or XP machine on the network. The machine requirements include:
Disk Space: 75MB minimum; 100MB recommended
RAM: 512MB minimum; 700MB recommended
You install the MobiLink server on the Windows machine as a post-installation task (described in “Installing MobiLink server on Windows (optional)”).
You also need to install an Adaptive Server Enterprise EBF to obtain the correct ODBC driver (15.00.00.140 or higher) needed to communicate between Adaptive Server Enterprise, and MobiLink.
