Actuate Customer Support publishes the Supported Products and Obsolescence Policy document that describes the data sources, drivers, operating systems, and other software requirements for connecting iHub to data sources. Actuate Supported Products and Obsolescence Policy, available on the Actuate Support site at the following URL, also contains information about the required patches:

iHub connects to data sources when generating documents and using the Actuate Caching service (ACS). The design developer specifies data source connection information in the design, or in an external connection configuration file. In most cases, iHub and the database run on different computers for load balancing purposes, but this division is not mandatory. Running iHub on the database host can improve performance.