DB2 Version 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

Installation requirements for DB2 Connect products (Solaris)

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

Important: For the most up-to-date installation requirements for DB2® database products, you must start using the System requirements for IBM® DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and System requirements for IBM DB2 Connect technotes. These technotes use IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR). With the SPCR tool, you can locate and find complete lists of supported operating systems, system requirements, prerequisites, and optional supported software for DB2 database products. This DB2 Information Centre topic might be removed in a future release or fix pack.

To install a DB2 Connect product on Solaris, the following requirements must be met:

Table 1. Solaris installation requirements
Operating System	Hardware
Solaris 10 Update 5 64-bit kernel Patch 127128-11	Solaris x64 (Intel 64 or AMD64)
Solaris 9 64-bit kernel Patches 111711-12 and 111712-12 If raw devices are used, patch 122300-11 Solaris 10 Update 5 64-bit kernel If raw devices are used, patch 125100-07	UltraSPARC or SPARC64 processors

Support is only for DB2 to be installed on local zones. Installation on the global zone is not supported by DB2 at this time.

Operating system requirements

"Recommended & Security Patches" can be obtained from the http://java.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. They can be obtained from the http://java.sun.com Web site.

For DB2 Connect 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/.

For an additional list of issues that can affect DB2 database systems on Solaris, refer to: www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21257606

DB2 database products support Solaris ZFS filesystems and Logical Domains (LDoms).

For details about virtualization technology supported by DB2 products, see https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/Information%20Management/page/Virtualization%20Support.

Software requirements

SUNWlibC software is required to install DB2 Connect on Solaris. It can be obtained from the http://java.sun.com Web site.
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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).