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Installing TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts
TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts can be installed in GUI mode or silent mode.
Before installing TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts you need to ensure that you have the correct system requirements.
After installation, there are post installation tasks you may need to perform.
System Requirements
Make sure that your target computer meets the necessary system requirements to install TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts.
The system requirements are also listed in the readme file, which is available on the product DVD in the \docs folder or from the TIBCO download site.
Supported Platforms
TIBCO Business Studio is supported on Windows, Apple Mac OS X and Linux/UNIX platforms, which are listed in detail in this section.
The 32 bit Windows version of TIBCO Business Studio is supported on both 32 and 64 bit Windows platforms; Linux has x86 and x64 (32 bit and 64 bit) distributions.
Microsoft have discontinued standard support for Windows XP. (Extended support is still available but must be purchased from Microsoft.)
TIBCO will continue to support TIBCO Business Studio on Windows XP. However, if a problem with TIBCO Business Studio is reported to TIBCO Support, and the problem is traced to the Windows XP operating system, TIBCO Support will be unable to assist further in the resolution of that problem.
TIBCO therefore recommend that you use Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 instead of Windows XP on any system that runs TIBCO Business Studio.
For full details of the platform variants supported, please refer to the README supplied with the product.
 
Microsoft Windows:
 
Microsoft Windows Server:
Windows 7 Professional is the minimum level supported by TIBCO.
 
Apple Mac OS X:
Linux/UNIX software distribution packages and supported versions:
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
The maximum number of open files/file descriptors that a user can open is controlled by the operating system. The threshold on Linux is typically too low for use with TIBCO Business Studio and has to be increased. The exact number depends on the features selected during installation and the size of the workspace but our experience is that 10000 is plenty. You can find out the number on your system using ulimit -n from a Terminal window.
Other Linux implementations detailed in the following link have not been formally validated, but have no known incompatibilities with this version of TIBCO Business Studio.
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_3_4.html#TargetOperatingEnvironments
Operating systems other than Linux, Apple Mac OS and Windows are not supported.
Minimum Disk Space and Memory Requirements
TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts requires certain minimum disk space and memory requirements.
Third-party Software Requirements
Additional third-party software is required when you install TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts.
The following software is required:
JRE 1.7.x (included in installation). We recommend that users stay up to date with Java patches issued by Oracle.
The TIBCO Business Studio installer for Linux 32 and 64 bit distributions downloads the Eclipse SWT GTK module which contains these two items:
The zip files required are as follows:
An installation dialog comes up for accepting the license and then gives an option to download the assembly from the TIBCO public website or select it from the disk.
Compatibility
TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts version 3.6.0 is compatible with specific versions of other TIBCO products.
The products that TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts version 3.6.0 (including Forms version 2.5.0) is compatible with are as follows:
Installer Accounts
You require certain privileges to install TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts on Windows and Linux platforms.
 
Microsoft Windows
You must have administrator privileges for the machine on which TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts is installed. If you do not have administrator privileges, the installer exits. You must then log out of the system and log in as a user with the required privileges, or request your system administrator to assign the privileges to your account.
After installing TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts with administrator privileges, do not use the same account to create a workspace for the user. Instead, individual users should start TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts from the account with which they intend to use TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts, and create their own workspace to avoid potential issues with permissions.
If you intend to install the product on a network drive, you must ensure that the account used for installation has permission to access the network drive.
 
Linux\Unix
TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts can be installed either as a root or a local user. TIBCO recommends that you install as the user you plan to use for TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts to avoid any potential permissions issues.
Installation Directories
TIBCO recommends that you install each version of TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts into a new, empty installation environment (separate from earlier versions of TIBCO Business Studio or other TIBCO products).
You should create a new workspace for each installation of TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts.
To do this, install TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts as described in Installing in GUI Mode on Windows. Specify a new, empty directory or create a new, empty directory as the environment location.
You may install TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts into an existing installation environment if:
Installer Log File
The installer log file is written to different locations depending on whether it is installed on Windows or Linux platforms.
 
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012
User_Home\.TIBCO\install_identifier directory where identifier is in the form of the date and time TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts was installed and a unique number used to identify this particular installation of TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts.
For example, C:\Documents and Settings\user-name\.TIBCO\install_03-02-2010.132827
 
Linux\UNIX
$HOME/.TIBCO/install_identifier directory where identifier is in the form of the date and time TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts was installed and a unique number used to identify this particular installation of TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts.
For example, /home/user1/.TIBCO/install_03-02-2010.132827
Environment Information
Environment information for TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts is contained in the file _envInfo.xml .
The file _envInfo.xml is written to the following location for Windows: C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Universal\TIBCO\Gen1\_vpddb
Installing in GUI Mode on Windows
You can install TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts in GUI Mode on Windows.
Before you begin 
Log in to the system on which you want to install TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts (for more information, see Installer Accounts).
Open the physical media or download the TIBCO Business Studio package to the machine on which you want to install TIBCO Business Studio. Extract the installation files to a temporary directory.
Procedure 
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Double-click TIBCOUniversalInstaller.
2.
Review the information in the Welcome dialog and click Next. The TIBCO Business Studio - Analyst Edition 3.6.0 License Agreement dialog is displayed.
Review the terms of the license agreement and, if you agree to them, click I accept the terms of the license agreement. Then click Next to continue with the installation.
If you do not agree to the terms of the license agreement, click Cancel to exit from the installation process.
3.
The TIBCO Installation Homedialog appears. TIBCO_HOME is the preferred top level installation directory for all TIBCO products on your system. Select either:
Create a new TIBCO_HOME. Click Browse to specify an environment location (a directory path to an empty folder into which the software will be installed), or accept the default environment location (which is the last directory in the path selected).
Use an existing TIBCO_HOME. Select an existing TIBCO_HOME from the drop-down list.
The installer automatically creates an environment name for the location you specify. The default environment name is studio-analyst-3.6. If this is not the first installation of TIBCO software, you can edit the environment name to differentiate this subsequent installation of TIBCO software from the first.
Click Next.
4.
You will not need to use Customize Installation which is available but unchecked, as this product only contains one feature.
5.
After the installer configures your installation choices, the Pre-Install Summary dialog is displayed. Review the information displayed in the dialog and make sure that it is correct. If you want to change any of your choices, click Back to step back through the dialogs to the appropriate point and make your choices again. When you are satisfied with your choices, click Install.
6.
Once the installer has finished the installation tasks, the Running Product ANT Tasks dialog is displayed. Click Show Details to see the tasks that the installer is performing.
7.
The Post-Install Summary dialog is displayed. Click Finish to exit from the installer. There is a slight delay while the installer deletes temporary files.
If you are installing on Windows 7, you may see a pop-up stating "This program might not have installed correctly". This is due to an incompatibility between InstallShield and Windows 7, but should not affect your TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts installation.
What to do next 
Complete the post-installation tasks described in Perform Post Installation/Upgrade Tasks
Installing in GUI Mode on Linux
You can install TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts on Linux platforms.
Before you begin 
Log in to the system on which you want to install TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts (for more information, see Installer Accounts).
Open the physical media or download the TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts package to the machine on which you want to install TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts. Extract the installation files to a temporary directory.
Procedure 
1.
Run the shell script TIBCOUniversalInstaller-lnx-xnn.bin.
2.
Click on Download Gnome Binding assembly from TIBCO.
What to do next 
If you want to run TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts in "headless" mode on Linux for command line build and deploy, it is necessary to have the Xvfb service running as some of the underlying eclipse components require an X Window System running on *NX based operating systems.
The examples below are for Red Hat Linux (x86_64). You can tailor these steps to your own installation.
In text terminal mode (a default Red Hat 6 runlevel 3 for example) you can use Xvfb to run X Window Virtual Frame Buffer (the other solution is simply to start the X Window server):
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yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb.x86_64
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xvfb-run <<your ant script >
Or alternatively:
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....<run your ant script >.
After a successful installation, TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts occasionally fails to startup on Linux systems, with a blank popup and the following error: "Product com.tibco.xpd.branding.prod could not be found" thrown in the STUDIO-HOME\eclipse-platform\ganymede\eclipse\configuration folder.
The workaround is as follows:
as reported by https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=262929. Xulrunner is typically installed as part of the Firefox browser and v1.9 is used by Firefox v3.5 and above. The compatible versions of Xulrunner are shown here: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux.
The preferred workaround is to obtain a compatible version of xulrunner. You can configure TIBCO Business Studio to use it by adding this to the end of the TIBCOBusinessStudio.ini file:
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=path_to_xulrunner_1_8

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