The Toolbox requires Microsoft Windows 2000, XP or Vista. It needs a PC with a processor running at 2GHz or faster, 3GB of hard disc space for storage and 1 GB(2GB for Vista) of RAM to operate. Administrative rights are also required during installation. However, once installed, normal user rights will be sufficient for running the application.
topThe USER folder is used across the Toolbox for:
The OECD Toolbox has a number of databases that come with the installation package that use the InterBase RDBMS. In order for them to
work InterBase server needs to be operational and have access to the database files.
It is possible that the InterBase service runs in a security context that does not allow it access to the database otherwise available
to the currently logged in user. In this case you may get one of the following errors:
The InterBase server can only access databases on the local machine. If you try to open a database located on a network drive
you would receive the following message:
Cannot establish connection to [FILENAME] cannot attach to password database
There is no fix for this issue in the current version of the Toolbox, so in order to open the database you would need to move the
ODB file to one of your local drives and edit the corresponding Config file's DBName row to point to the new database file's
position.
Toolbox can read '*.smi' files (tab delimited text files) in two formats:
The Toolbox needs a Java Virtual Machine to run some of its profilers. This message presents itself when the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) installed on the computer is an old version. Please install the version distributed with the Toolbox package - 'Java(TM) 6 Update 10' from Sun Microsystems, Inc