DB2 Version 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

Installation requirements for DB2 Connect server products (HP-UX)

Before you install DB2 Connect™ server products on HP-UX operating systems, 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 server product, such as DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition, on HP-UX, the following requirements must be met:

Note: Support for 32-bit HP-UX applications has been deprecated.

Installation requirements

Table 1. HP-UX installation requirements
Operating System	Hardware
HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23.0505) with: May 2005 Base Quality (QPKBASE) bundle May 2005 Applications Quality (QPKAPPS) bundle PHCO_38637 - libcumulative patch HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) with PHCO_38658 - libc cumulative patch	Itanium based HP Integrity Series Systems

Software requirements

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Communication requirements

You can use TCP/IP

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

Note: Starting in DB2 V9.7 Fix Pack 1 and later, DB2 products installed on the HP-UX operating system support long host names. The length has been extended to 255 bytes, in any combination of characters or digits. The minimum operating system requirement is HPUX 11iv2 (and above).

To enable long host name support, complete the following tasks:

Turn on the kernel tunable parameter expanded_node_host_name.
```
 Kctune expanded_node_host_name=1
```
Compile applications requiring long host name support with the -D_HPUX_API_LEVEL=20040821 option.