June 2016

Ellipse and Related Products Supported Platforms

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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: info.PGES@abb.com

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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 11gR2
Oracle 12c (12.1)
Oracle Linux 7.0
SQL Server 2014
Azure SQL
8.7 Oracle 11gR2
Oracle Linux 6.7 (Intel x64 based) 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

Currently supported versions by the respective

Microsoft Windows 7, Internet Explorer, Google
vendors and the browser must support Adobe
Windows 8.x Chrome and Firefox
Flash 10 or above

Visual Studio:
Microsoft Windows 7,  Approvals Manager Office 2007 or above
Windows 8 Outlook Plugin
 Smart Excel Plugin

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.

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Ellipse 8 Deployment Options

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

Deployment
General description
Architecture

Ellipse is hosted in an ABB managed Azure Cloud Service (infrastructure

and application services) established specifically for the customer by
Microsoft Azure Cloud - ABB.
ABB Managed (Cloud
Customer data protected in the cloud by ABB from unauthorised external
Services)
access from third parties.
This option is available from Ellipse 8.7 and later releases.

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.
Appliance
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.

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
Manual installation 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 Ellipse Notes

Server Model
Vendor Version

May require "manual" device selection

Cisco UCS B200 M3 8.5+1
procedure during Appliance initialization

May require "manual" device selection

Cisco UCS B400 M4 8.5+1
procedure during Appliance initialization

Dell PowerEdge R710 8.3+1

Dell PowerEdge R810 8.3+1

Dell PowerEdge R820 8.4+1

Dell PowerEdge M620 8.5+1

Dell PowerEdge R620 8.5+1

Dell PowerEdge R630 8.5+1

Ellipse versions prior to 8.4.15 may

HP ProLiant BL460 8.4+1 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 Ellipse Oracle Linux

Server Model Virtualisation Notes
Vendor Version Version

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

8.6 Oracle 11gR2,
Oracle Linux 6.6 (Intel x64 based)
Oracle 12c (12.1)
8.5 Oracle 11gR2,
Oracle Linux 6.5 (Intel x64 based)
Oracle 12c (12.1)
8.4 Oracle 11gR2,
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3 (Intel x64 based)
Oracle 12c (12.1)
8.3 Oracle 11gR2,
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.7 (Intel x64 based)
Oracle 12c (12.1)
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

Internet Explorer
Currently supported versions by the respective
Microsoft Windows 7,
Google Chrome vendors and the browser must support Adobe
Vista, Windows 8
Flash 10 or above Note 1
Firefox

Visual Studio:
Microsoft Windows 7,  Approvals Manager Office 2007 or above
Windows 8 Outlook Plugin
 Smart Excel Plugin

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

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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 C/C++ COBOL Transaction Web
Database
System Compiler Compiler Processor Middleware

IBM XL Server Express TXSeries 6.2 WAS (ND) 7.0

IBM AIX 5.3 Oracle 11.1
C/C++ 8/9 5 PTF 3 CTG 6

Sun Solaris Sun One Studio Server Express TXSeries 6.2 WAS (ND) 7.0
Oracle 11.1
(SPARC) 10 C/C++ 10/11 5 PTF 3 CTG 6

HP – HP UX Server Express
HP ANSI C TXSeries 6.2 WAS (ND) 7.0
(Itanium) 5.1 Oracle 11.1
A6.10 or later PTF 3 CTG 6
11iv2/11.23 Wrap Pack 4

HP – HP UX
Server Express
(Itanium) HP ANSI C TXSeries 6.2 WAS (ND) 7.0
5.1 Oracle 11.1
11iv3/11.31 A6.12 or later PTF 3 CTG 6
Wrap Pack 4
(Note 1)

HP – HP UX
HP ANSI C Server Express TXSeries 6.2 WAS (ND) 7.0
(PA-RISC) Oracle 11.1
A.03.70 or later 5 PTF 3 CTG 6
11iv2/11.23

HP – HP UX
(PA-RISC) HP ANSI C Server Express TXSeries 6.2 WAS (ND) 7.0
11iv3/11.31 Oracle 11.1
A.03.74 or later 5 PTF 3 CTG 6
(Note 1)

Microsoft Visual Oracle 11.1

Windows TXSeries 6.2 WAS (ND) 7.0
Studio .NET Net Express 5 SQL Server
Server 2003 PTF 3 CTG 6
2005 2005

Microsoft Visual Net

Windows WAS (ND) 7.0
Studio .NET TXSeries 7.1 Oracle 11.2
Server 2008 Express 5.1 CTG 8.0
2008

Windows Microsoft Visual

WAS (ND) 7.0 SQL Server
Server 2008 Studio .NET Net Express 5.1 TXSeries 7.1
CTG 8.0 2008
(Note 2) 2008

IBM AIX IBM XL Server WAS (ND) 7.0

TXSeries 7.1 Oracle 11.2
6.1 C/C++ 10 Express 5.1 CTG 8.0

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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 BO XI 3.1 SP2 BO XI 3.1 SP5

Version

Operating System Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise
for Report Server Edition & Standard Edition & SP1) Edition & Standard Edition & SP1)

Application / Web Apache Tomcat 5.5 Apache Tomcat 5.5

Server
(Note 9) (Note 9)

Desktop Windows 2000 SP3 Professional Windows 2000 SP3 Professional

Windows 2000 SP4 Professional Windows 2000 SP4 Professional
Windows XP SP1 Professional Windows XP SP1 Professional
Windows XP SP2 Professional Windows XP SP2 Professional
Windows Vista Windows Vista

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Browser IE6 (SP2), IE7, IE8 (compatibility IE6 (SP2), IE7, IE8 (compatibility
mode only) mode only)
IE9

Ellipse Database Refer to supported Ellipse 6.3.3 Refer to supported Ellipse 6.3.3
Server databases Server databases

Database Oracle Net Client (11.1.0.6) Oracle Net Client (11.1.0.6)

Connectivity
DB2 Client (8.2,9.1 & 9.5) DB2 Client (8.2,9.1 & 9.5)
ODBC MDAC 2.8 ODBC MDAC 2.8
(Note 4) (Note 4)

Business Objects Oracle 11.1g Oracle 11.1g

Repository
DB2 (8.2, 9.1 & 9.5) DB2 (8.2, 9.1 & 9.5)
SQL Server 2005 (SP1 & SP2) SQL Server 2005 (SP1 & SP2)

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 C/C++ COBOL Transaction Web
Database
System Compiler Compiler Processor Middleware

IBM XL Server Express WAS (ND) 6.0

IBM AIX 5.3 TXSeries 6.2 Oracle 10.2
C/C++ 8/9 5 CTG 6

Sun Solaris Sun One Studio Server Express WAS (ND) 6.0
TXSeries 6.2 Oracle 10.2
(SPARC) 10 C/C++ 10/11 5 CTG 6

Server
HP – HP UX HP ANSI C Express 5.1 WAS (ND) 6.0
(Itanium) TXSeries 6.2 Oracle 10.2
A6.10 or later CTG 6
11iv2/11.23 Wrap Pack 3
+TXSeries Fix

HP – HP UX HP ANSI C Server Express WAS (ND) 6.0

(PA-RISC) TXSeries 6.2 Oracle 10.2
11iv2/11.23 A.03.70 or later 5 CTG 6

Microsoft Visual Oracle 10.2

Windows WAS (ND) 6.0
Studio .NET Net Express 5 TXSeries 6.2 SQL Server
Server 2003 CTG 6
2005 2005

Ellipse 6.3.2 Ellipse Reporting

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.
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

Operating System for Report Windows Server 2003

Server
(Enterprise Edition & Standard Edition & SP1)

Application / Web Server Apache Tomcat 5.5

(Note 9)

Desktop Windows 2000 SP3 Professional

Windows 2000 SP4 Professional

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Windows XP SP1 Professional

Windows XP SP2 Professional
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)
SQL Server 2005 (SP1 & SP2)

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

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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.
Note 12: Customers are advised this release of Ellipse Reporting will continue to be offered in English
as the standard solution.

Ellipse 6.3.1/6.2.x Server

Operating C/C++ COBOL Transaction Web
Database
System Compiler Compiler Processor Middleware

IBM AIX 5.2, IBM Visual Age Server Express WAS (ND) 6.0 Oracle 10.2
TXSeries 5.1
5.3 C/C++ 6 4 CTG 5.1 DB2 8.1

Oracle 10.2
Sun Solaris Sun One Studio Server Express TXSeries 5.1 WAS (ND) 6.0 (Note 1)
(SPARC) 9/10 C/C++ 10/11 4 (Note 2) CTG 5.1 DB2 8.1 (Sol 9
only)

HP – HP UX
HP ANSI C Server Express WAS (ND) 6.0 Oracle 10.2
(PA-RISC) TXSeries 5.1
(all versions) 4 CTG 5.1 DB2 8.1
11iv1/11.11

Oracle 10.2
Windows Microsoft Visual WAS (ND) 6.0
Net Express 4 TXSeries 5.1 SQL Server
Server 2003 Studio .NET CTG 5.1
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

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.

Business Objects Version 6.5.4

Operating System for Report Windows Server 2003

Server
(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)

Business Objects Repository Oracle 10.2g

DB2 (8.1 & 8.2)
SQL Server 2005

Adobe Acrobat LDAP Server

Versions below 6.01 required if ability to upload and store Active Directory 2000 SP3 & SP4
PDFs in the repository is desired; otherwise versions 5.x, 6.x
Active Directory 2003
and 7.x 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 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. ABB recommends using the same database for both.
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: 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.
Note 11: Business Objects is only supported on Windows Server 2003 32-bit versions.
Note 12: Customers are advised this release of Ellipse Reporting will continue to be offered in English
as the standard solution.

Ellipse 6.1 Server

Operating C/C++ COBOL Transaction Web Database Ellipse
System Compiler Compiler Processor Middleware Reporting

WAS 5.1 Oracle 10.2

IBM Visual TXSeries 5.1
IBM AIX Age Server CTG 5.1 DB2 8.1
5.2, 5.3 Express 4
C/C++ 6
Tuxedo 8.1 Oracle 10.2

Oracle 10.2
TXSeries 5.1 WAS 5.1
Sun Solaris Sun One (Note 1)
Studio Server (Note 2) CTG 5.1
(SPARC) DB2 8.1
Express 4
9/10 C/C++ 10/11
Tuxedo 8.1 /9.1 Oracle 10.2

WAS 5.1 Oracle 10.2 See below

HP – HP UX TXSeries 5.1
HP ANSI C Server CTG 5.1 DB2 8.1
(PA-RISC)
(all versions) Express 4
11i v1/11.11
Tuxedo 8.1 Oracle 10.2

Oracle 10.2
Tuxedo 8.1 SQL Server
Microsoft 2000
Windows Net
Visual Studio
Server 2003 Express 4
.NET Oracle 10.2
WAS 5.1
TXSeries 5.1 SQL Server
CTG 5.1
2000

IBM DB2 V 7
CICS TS 2.x Not available
Z/OS 1.4

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 6.1 Ellipse Reporting

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.

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)

Application / Web Server Apache 2.0.50 Tomcat 5.0.28

(Note 9)

Desktop Windows 2000 SP3 Professional

Windows 2000 SP4 Professional
Windows XP SP1 Professional
Windows XP SP2 Professional

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)

Business Objects Repository Oracle 10.2g

DB2 (8.1 & 8.2)
SQL Server 2000 (SP3 & SP4)

Adobe Acrobat LDAP Server

Versions below 6.01 required if ability to upload and store Active Directory 2000 SP3 & SP4
PDFs in the repository is desired; otherwise versions 5.x, 6.x
Active Directory 2003
and 7.x 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 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 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 6: ABB recommends that the link between the report server and the repository must be a
minimum of a 100 MBit link.
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.
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.
Note 12: Customers are advised this release of Ellipse Reporting will continue to be offered in English
as the standard solution.

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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 C/C++ COBOL Transaction Web Database Ellipse

System Compiler Compiler Processor Middleware Reporting

Oracle 9i
WAS 5.1
TXSeries 5.1 Oracle 10.2
IBM Visual CTG 5.1
IBM AIX Age Server DB2 8.1
5.2, 5.3 Express 4
C/C++ 6
Oracle 9i
Tuxedo 8.1
Oracle 10.2

Oracle 9i
TXSeries 5.1 WAS 5.1 Oracle 10.2
Sun Solaris Sun One (Note 2) CTG 5.1 (Note 1)
Studio Server
(SPARC) DB2 8.1
Express 4
9/10 C/C++ 10/11
Tuxedo 8.1 Oracle 9i
/9.1 Oracle 10.2 BO 6.5.x only
See also
Oracle 9i
WAS 5.1 below
TXSeries 5.1 Oracle 10.2
HP – HP UX HP ANSI C CTG 5.1
Server DB2 8.1
(PA-RISC)
(all versions) Express 4
11i v1/11.11
Oracle 9i
Tuxedo 8.1
Oracle 10.2

Oracle 9i
Oracle 10.2
Tuxedo 8.1
SQL Server
Microsoft 2000
Windows Net Express
Visual Studio
Server 2003 4
.NET Oracle 9i
WAS 5.1 Oracle 10.2
TXSeries 5.1
CTG 5.1 SQL Server
2000

IBM DB2 V 7
CICS TS 2.x Not available
Z/OS 1.4

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.

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Ellipse 5.2.3.8 Ellipse Reporting

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.

Business Objects Version 6.5.1 or later 6.5.x

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)

Application / Web Server Apache 2.0.50 Tomcat 5.0.28

(Note 9)

Desktop Windows 2000 SP3 Professional

Windows 2000 SP4 Professional
Windows XP SP1 Professional
Windows XP SP2 Professional

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)
SQL Server 2000 (SP3 & SP4)

Adobe Acrobat LDAP Server

Versions below 6.01 required if ability to upload and store Active Directory 2000 SP3 & SP4
PDFs in the repository is desired; otherwise versions 5.x, 6.x
Active Directory 2003
and 7.x 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.

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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 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).
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 6: ABB recommends that the link between the report server and the repository must be a
minimum of a 100 MBit link.
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, the customer must supply and install their own
copies of these versions for use with Business Objects.
Note 10: Business Objects is only supported on Windows Server 2003 32-bit versions.
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.
Note 12: Customers are advised this release of Ellipse Reporting will continue to be offered in English
as the standard solution.

Ellipse 5.2.3.7 Server

Operating C/C++ COBOL Transaction Web
Database
System Compiler Compiler Processor Middleware

TXSeries WAS 5.1 Oracle 9i

IBM AIX 5.2, IBM Visual Age Server Express 5, 5.1
CTG 5 DB2 8.1
5.3 C/C++ 6 2.2, 4
Tuxedo 8.1 WebLogic 8.1 Oracle 9i

TXSeries
Sun Solaris Sun One Studio Server Express 5, 5.1 WAS AE 4.03
Oracle 9i
(SPARC) 8 C/C++ 7/8/9/10 2.2, 4 CTG 5
Tuxedo 8.1

TXSeries WAS 5.1 Oracle 9i

Sun Solaris Sun One Studio Server Express 5, 5.1
CTG 5 DB2 8.1
(SPARC) 9 C/C++ 7/8/9/10 2.2, 4
Tuxedo 8.1 WebLogic 8.1 Oracle 9i

TXSeries WAS 5.1 Oracle 9i

HP - HP UX HP ANSI C Server Express 5, 5.1 CTG 5 DB2 8.1
11i v1 /11,11
(all versions) 2.2, 4
(PA-RISC)
Tuxedo 8.1 WebLogic 8.1 Oracle 9i

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Operating C/C++ COBOL Transaction Web

Database
System Compiler Compiler Processor Middleware

HP - HP UX
HP ANSI C Server Express
11i v2/11.23 Tuxedo 8.1 WebLogic 8.1 Oracle 9i
(all versions) 2.2, 4
(Itanium)

HP – Tru64 Compaq C/C++ Server Express

Tuxedo 8.1 WebLogic 8.1 Oracle 9i
5.1b (all versions) 2.2, 4

Oracle 9i
Tuxedo 8.1 WebLogic 8.1 SQL Server
Microsoft Visual Net Express 2000
Windows 2000
Studio .NET 3.1, 4
Oracle 9i
WAS 5.1
TXSeries 5, 5.1 SQL Server
CTG 5
2000

Oracle 9i
Tuxedo 8.1 WebLogic 8.1 SQL Server
Microsoft Visual 2000
Windows
Net Express 4
Server 2003 Studio .NET Oracle 9i
WAS 5.1
TXSeries 5, 5.1 SQL Server
CTG 5
2000

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

Ellipse 5.2.3.7 Ellipse Reporting

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.

Business Objects Version 6.5.1 or later 6.5.x

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)

Application / Web Server Apache 2.0.50 Tomcat 5.0.28

(Note 9)

Desktop Windows 2000 SP3 Professional

Windows 2000 SP4 Professional
Windows XP SP1 Professional
Windows XP SP2 Professional

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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)
SQL Server 2000 (SP3 & SP4)

Adobe Acrobat LDAP Server

Versions below 6.01 required if ability to upload and store Active Directory 2000 SP3 & SP4
PDFs in the repository is desired; otherwise versions 5.x, 6.x
Active Directory 2003
and 7.x 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 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).
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 6: ABB recommends that the link between the report server and the repository must be a
minimum of a 100 MBit link.
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, the customer must supply and install their own
copies of these versions for use with Business Objects.
Note 10: Business Objects is only supported on Windows Server 2003 32-bit versions.
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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Note 12: Customers are advised this release of Ellipse Reporting will continue to be offered in English
as the standard solution.

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

ASCII and 3270 TX Series

3270 Terminals
Type Terminals only

Windows XP Pro SP3

Windows Designer Yes
Windows 2003 platforms

Windows XP Pro SP3

ReportLink Yes Windows 2003 platforms
Windows 7 32 bit only

Windows XP Pro SP3

Ellipse 6.3.3 Windows 2003 platforms
Windows 2008 platforms (Note 1)
WinView incl Desktop Yes
Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit (Note 1)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) 7 (IE 7)
& 8 (IE8)

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), 7 (IE 7)

WebView Yes
& 8 (IE8)

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), 7 (IE 7)

Web/HTML Clients Yes
& 8 (IE8)

TSE Client Yes TSE/RDP Clients & Citrix ICA Clients

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Release Products Available Supported Client Platform Support

(supporting MPSE 3.0 R05, MPSE 4.0 or
later)

Windows 2003 with Terminal services

Windows 2008 (32 bit) with Terminal
TSE Servers Yes services
Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit) with Terminal
services

Windows XP Pro SP3

Ellipse Scripting Yes Windows 2003 platforms
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.

Release Products Available Supported Client Platform Support

ASCII and 3270 TX Series

3270 Terminals
Type Terminals only

Windows XP Pro SP3

Windows Designer Yes
Windows 2003 platforms

Windows XP Pro SP3

ReportLink Yes
Windows 2003 platforms

Windows XP Pro SP3

WinView incl Desktop Yes Windows 2003 platforms
Ellipse 6 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)
(6.3.2, 6.3.1, 6.2,
6.1) WebView Yes Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

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

TSE/RDP Clients & Citrix ICA Clients

TSE Client Yes (supporting MPSE 3.0 R05, MPSE 4.0 or
later)

TSE Servers Yes Windows 2003 with Terminal services

Windows XP Pro SP3

Ellipse Scripting Yes Windows 2003 platforms
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

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Release Products Available Supported Client Platform Support

ASCII and 3270 TX Series

3270 Terminals
Type Terminals only

Windows XP Pro SP3

Windows Designer Yes Windows 2003 platforms
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

Windows XP Pro SP3

ReportLink Yes
Windows 2003 platforms

Output Designer Yes Windows 2003 platforms

Windows XP Pro SP3

WinView Yes Windows 2003 platforms
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)
Ellipse 5.2.3
WebView Yes Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)

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

TSE/RDP Clients & Citrix ICA Clients

TSE Client Yes (supporting MPSE 3.0 R05, MPSE 4.0 or
later)

Windows 2000 with Terminal services &

Citrix Presentation Servers (MPSE 3.0
TSE Servers Yes
R05, MPSE 4.0 or MPSE 4.5)
Windows 2003 with Terminal services

Windows XP Pro SP3

Ellipse Scripting Yes
Windows 2003 platforms

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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

Ellipse
Release Component Supported Platforms Other Requirements
Release

Windows 2000, Windows XP,

Client IE 6.1
Windows 2003
Build 5 5.2.3.8 to 6.3.x
Windows 2000 Server, ASP, Microsoft JVM, Build
Server
Windows 2003 server 3810, IIS

Windows 2000, Windows XP,

Client IE 6.1
Build 5 Windows 2003
5.2.3.8 to 6.3.x
Patch 1 Windows 2000 Server, ASP, Microsoft JVM, Build
Server
Windows 2003 server 3810, IIS

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

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

Ellipse Analytics

Ellipse
Release Component Supported Platforms Other Requirements
Release

SQL Server 2014

Enterprise or Business
Edition
Windows 2008R2 Sever or
3.0 8.5 or later Server SSIS and SSAS
Windows 2012 Server
components selected
Attunity Oracle Driver for
SSIS

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Ellipse
Release Component Supported Platforms Other Requirements
Release
Power BI Enterprise
Gateway

Recommended Platform
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
Operating System Database Other
Release

 .NET 2.0 or higher

Windows Server 2003,
SQL Server 2005, 2008  Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
5.6.1 2008
Oracle 9i, 10g  Internet Information Services
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
 MDAC1
Mobile Platform  Requires Ventyx Integration
Components Platform 2.1.1021
AMP 3.1  .NET 3.5 or higher
 Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
Windows Server 2008 32
4.1 and SQL Server 2005, 2008  Internet Information Services
bit
4.2 Oracle 10g, 11g  MDAC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Note: Available as a standalone
5.x platform or underlying platform for
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.x Mobile applications – contact
product marketing for further
(with JBoss 5.1) details.
 JBoss 5.1 and JDK 6 is included
with the installer
 Requires Ventyx Integration
Mobile Platform Platform 2.1.
Components  Mobile Server requires Internet
5.0 Oracle 10g, 11g
Oracle Enterprise Linux Explorer 6.0 or higher, or Google
5.5 or greater Chrome 31 or higher
 Mobile Client browser version
requires Google Chrome 31 or
higher

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Ellipse Mobile Inspector

Release Ellipse Release Component Supported Platforms Other Requirements

 .NET 2.0 or higher

PDA or
 SQL Server 2005
Work Planner 3.36 Laptop /
(Express)
or higher (and Tablet Client
2.5 Windows 7/XP/Tablet  1024 MB RAM (min)
matching Ellipse Windows
release)  Graphics Card/Monitor at
Mobile 6.0,
1024x768
6.1
 See certified devices list
Ellipse 6.3.3 and
Work Planner
version 4.1 or  .NET 3.5 or higher
higher or Work
 SQL Server CE 3.5
Planner 3.36.20 or
higher Laptop /  1024 MB RAM (min)
4.1 Windows7/XP/Tablet
Tablet Client  Graphics Card/Monitor at
OR
1024x768
Ellipse 8.3.4 or  See certified devices list
higher and Work
Planner version 4.1
or higher

 .NET 3.5 or higher

8.3.4 or higher  SQL Server CE 3.5
Work Planner Laptop /  1024 MB RAM (min)
4.2 Windows7/XP/Tablet
version 4.2 or Tablet Client  Graphics Card/Monitor at
higher 1024x768
 See certified devices list
 Mobile Platform 5.0
 Min device specs. 2GB
RAM (min), Processor Min
7.8GHz, Hard Drive 64 GB
min, Wireless IEEE
Ellipse 8.3.18 or 802.11a/b/g/n, 1024x768
4.2.1 higher Tablet Client Windows 8.0 resolution
Work Planner 4.2  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

Release Ellipse Release Component Supported Platforms Other Requirements

Ellipse 6.3 and

Work Planner  .NET 3.5 or higher
version 4.1 or
 SQL Server CE 3.5
higher or Work
Planner 3.36.20 or Laptop /  1024 MB RAM (min)
4.1 Windows7/XP/Tablet
higher Tablet Client  Graphics Card/Monitor at
1024x768
OR
 See certified devices list
8.3.4 or higher and
Work Planner 4.1

 .NET 3.5 or higher

Ellipse 8.3.4 or  SQL Server CE 3.5
higher Laptop /  1024 MB RAM (min)
4.2 Windows7/XP/Tablet
Work Planner 4.2 Tablet Client  Graphics Card/Monitor at
or higher 1024x768
 See certified devices list
 Mobile Platform 5.0
 Min device specs. 2GB
RAM (min), Processor Min
7.8GHz, Hard Drive 64 GB
min, Wireless IEEE
Ellipse 8.3.18 or 802.11a/b/g/n, 1024x768
4.2.1 higher Tablet Client Windows 8.0 resolution
Work Planner 4.2  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)

Release Ellipse Release Component Supported Platforms Other Requirements

Mobile
Inspector Mobile Locator is optional and
Laptop /
n/a Windows 7/XP/Tablet requires devices with in-built
Mobile Tablet Client
GPS capability.
Worker

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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 Windows 2003 IBM WebSphere
1), (Enterprise Edition & Application Server (WAS)
Standard Edition) Network Deployment (ND)
6.1.x, 6.2.x, 6.3.x
7.0
Sun Solaris (SPARC) 10
As per Ellipse 8 technology stack
3.36 8.1.x

4.1 6.3.x Oracle Enterprise Linux JBoss (Provided)

5.5 (Intel x64 based)

4.2 8.3.18+ As per Ellipse 8 technology stack

As per Ellipse 8 technology stack
4.3 8.4.1+

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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 LinkOne WinView version 5.x

6.2.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.

First General Extended

Vendor Product & Version End of Support
Release Support

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

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

Oracle/BEA [1]
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

ComplianceFactory
07-Sep-01 01-Oct-09
3.1

ComplianceFactory
06-Oct-09
4.0 Web based
BSI
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 24-May-11 30-Nov-14

TaxFactory 10.0 04-Aug-14

Business
Business Objects 6.5 Sept-04 30-Jun-09
Objects

Business Objects XI
Apr-2008 31-Dec-2015
3.0

4.3.1
General advice and troubleshooting may be provided but no
5.00
bugs will be fixed
5.01
CorVu
It is unlikely that there will be any further Production Release
5.10
of 5.10.

5.11.437 is likely to be the last production release. 5.11.447

5.11 contains bug fixes for certain customers, but will not go further
than limited production.

5.20 No dates available – contact Rocket Software

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First General Extended

Vendor Product & Version End of Support
Release Support

Antenna/
Dexterra Concert 3.5 Mar-2005 Retired December 2008.
Dexterra

No specific date at this

Dexterra Concert Available on
Dec-2008 time.
5.6.1 request
Q3 2011 No specific date at this
Antenna AMP 3.0
time.

HP UX 11.0 01-Feb-05
HP
HP UX 11iv1/11.11 31-Dec-15

HP UX 11iv2/11.23 31-Dec-15
HP UX 11i v3/11, 31 31-Dec-20

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 30-Sep-2010
IBM [2]
CTG v7.1 30-Sep-2013
CTG v7.2 30-Apr-2014
CTG v8 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
01-Nov-02 30-Apr-07
(Solaris)

TX Series 5.0
15-Mar-02 30-Apr-07
(WinNT, Win2k)

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

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First General Extended

Vendor Product & Version End of Support
Release Support

TX Series 6.2 04-Jan-08 30-Sep-2013

TX Series 7.1 21-Apr-2009 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

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

Micro Focus
Server Express 5.1 Info not available
[3]
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

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

Microsoft [4] 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 Database 8i 31-Dec-04 31-Dec-06

Oracle [5]
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

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First General Extended

Vendor Product & Version End of Support
Release 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 TBD

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.

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.

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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

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