This IBM® Redpaper™ publication provides suggestions, hints and tips, directions, installation steps, checklists of prerequisites, and configuration information collected from several IBM InfoSphere® Information Server experts. It is intended to minimize the time required to successfully install and configure InfoSphere Information Server.

The information in this document is based on field experiences of experts who have implemented InfoSphere Information Server. As such, it is intended to supplement, and not replace, the product documentation.

Discover the proven choices and combinations for installing InfoSphere Information Server that have been the most successful for the IBM InfoSphere Center Of Excellence. This paper includes a broad range of customer needs and experiences, with a focus on the following areas:

• InfoSphere Information Server architecture
• Checklists
• Prerequisites
• Configuration choices that work well together

This paper is based on thousands of hours of production systems experience, from which you can now reap significant benefits.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Platform specifications

Chapter 3. Capacity planning

Chapter 4. Installation and configuration

Chapter 5. Parallel configuration files

Appendix A. Configurations and checklists