Before you install DB2 Connect™ server products on Solaris operating systems, ensure that the system you choose meets the necessary operating system, hardware, software, and communications requirements.

Hardware requirements

Solaris UltraSPARC-based computer

Operating system requirements

DB2 Connect server products are supported on the following Solaris versions:

• Solaris 9 (64-bit)

• Solaris 10 (64-bit)

"Recommended & Security Patches" can be obtained from the http://sunsolve.sun.com Web site. From the SunSolve Online Web site, click on the "Patches" menu item in the left panel.

The J2SE Solaris Operating System Patch Clusters are also required.

For DB2^® on 64-bit Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER systems, you also require the following:

• Solaris 9 Kernel Update Patch 112233-01 or later to get the fix for patch 912041-01.

The Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER patches for the Solaris Operating System can be downloaded from FTSI at: http://download.ftsi.fujitsu.com/.

The following software is required to install DB2 on Solaris Operating Systems:

• SUNWlibC

Software requirements

• A browser is required to view online help.

• For details regarding known Solaris Operating System issues, see www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21257606

Communication requirements

You can use TCP/IP

• For TCP/IP connectivity, no additional software is required.

• DB2 Connect is supported on Sun Cluster 2.2 if:

  • The protocol to the host is TCP/IP

  • Two-phase commit is not used. This restriction is relaxed if the user configures the SPM log to be on a shared disk (this can be done through the spm_log_path database manager configuration parameter), and the failover system has an identical TCP/IP configuration (the same host name, IP address, and so on).

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