MANTIS® Studio, part of the MANTIS/Open developer platform, is an Eclipse based integrated development environment (IDE) for the MANTIS programming language providing comprehensive facilities and runtimes for building, deploying, and managing MANTIS application development across the software development lifecycle.
MANTIS® Studio for the MANTIS Developer is currently configured for the Windows client platform, however it supports a MANTIS Server on all major server platforms (e.g., z/OS, z/VSE, Linux, UNIX, Windows, and OpenVMS). Future versions will be configured for other client platforms. Click here to view pre-requisite Windows installation requirements for MANTIS® Studio, part of the MANTIS/Open Developer platform.
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Click here to download the MANTIS® Studio install archive zip file for the Windows platform. It is a typical Windows install archive, simply unzip the contents to a temporary folder and run the setup.exe
If your version of Microsoft® Windows® is NOT listed below, MANTIS will NOT run.
Before you can install MANTIS in one of the supported environments, you may have to install or activate special Microsoft components.
Below are descriptions of the Microsoft components that may have to be installed and activated before MANTIS installation can proceed.
you must add localhost to the Exceptions list for the Proxy Settings.
Select usage of setuid and case sensitive, at the install prompt.
Select Remote User Name Mapping specifying no additional information, at the install prompt.
Unzip/extract the Microsoft Windows SFU files to a known location (e.g., C:\TEMP)
Open/Run 'setup' to start the Microsoft Windows SFU Setup Wizard
Then, during the setup/install...,
Select usage of setuid and case sensitive, at the install prompt.
Select Remote User Name Mapping specifying no additional information, at the install prompt.
Complete the installation UNTIL reboot is requested. For Windows SFU, DO NOT reboot. Proceed with Windows SFU Hotfix install for MANTIS (next step)
After Windows SFU installation completes BUT BEFORE reboot!
Using Windows Services administration, STOP the Interix service, if active.
Using Windows Task Manager>Processes Tab, 'End Process' any processes with names starting with 'psx'.
Download and unzip the contents of the Microsoft SFU Update KB929141, follow the instuctions in the zip file to install this Microsoft fix (it is required for MANTIS).
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