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5.5 IBM AIX Requirements
Patran supports the following IBM AIX hardware and software. 
 
Table 5‑8
Hardware Platforms
43P, 44P, IntelliStation Power 265, 275
Operating System
AIX 5.3 maintenance level 6 or higher (To find the maintenance level, use instfix -i | grep ML)
Motif Version
2.1
Compiler Versions1
XL FORTRAN 9.1.0.7, IBM XL C/C++ 8.0.0.112
Window Manager
Common Desktop Environment (CDE 1.0 or later)
3D Graphics Library Version
OpenGL 1.1 (4.3.3.75) or higher
Graphics Accelerators
GXT4500P, GXT6500P.
1 Patran requires libxlf90.a runtime libraries.

2 Compilers required for Patran Thermal and dbaccess only. Table 5‑9 lists additional required patches.

AIX Patches and Libraries
The following table lists required patches and subsets for IBM AIX. Note that patch numbers are subject to change. Contact IBM for the latest version of these patches.
 
Table 5‑9
Patch
APAR
Description/LPP
U463955
IX88249
RPC quoted and escaped character fix
N/A
N/A
xlC.rte version 8.0.0.5
N/A
N/A
xlfrte 9.1.0.7 XL Fortran Environment
N/A
N/A
XL C/C++ version 8.0.0.11
N/A
IY60550
Option menu size miscalculation for AIX 5.3
Starting the X.11 Window Manager Properly
The Patran 3D graphics driver is sensitive to the way you start the X.11 server process. Use one of the following commands to start the X.11 window manager for Patran:
 
% xinit
X.11 window
% xinit -- -bs
X.11 window with backingstore
Display Environment Variable for IBM Graphics Accelerators
The Patran 3D driver is sensitive to how you define the DISPLAY environment variable. To get the maximum graphics performance when running Patran locally on the workstation, define the DISPLAY variable as follows.
csh:
% setenv DISPLAY :0.0
ksh:
% DISPLAY=:0.0
% export DISPLAY