Setting up a DB2 Connect™ server
product, such as DB2 Connect Enterprise
Edition, is a multi-step process. DB2
Connect server products are often installed with hundreds or
thousands of clients connecting to IBM mainframe database servers. For this reason,
it is recommended to use a test installation, outlined below. After
the test configuration has proven stable, you can use it as the template
for an unattended installation of DB2
Connect and your clients across your organization.
The typical steps to installing and configuring a DB2 Connect server product are as follows:
- Determine how you want to use DB2 Connect in your network.
- Verify that you have the correct hardware and software prerequisites
on both your workstation and the host database server.
- Verify that your IBM mainframe
database server is configured to accept connections from DB2 Connect servers.
- Install your DB2 Connect software.
You will use this workstation to configure and verify your IBM mainframe connections.
Use the related links to find the details specific to the installation
of a DB2 Connect server
product on your operating system.
- After installation, establish the connection between DB2 Connect and your IBM mainframe database system. DB2 Connect can locate and
configure all TCP/IP connections for you. You can use the Configuration
Assistant (CA) or the DB2® command
line processor (CLP) to configure IBM mainframe databases.
- Bind the programs and utilities provided with DB2 Connect to your IBM mainframe database.
- Test the connection.
- (Optional) Enable the Multisite Update feature.
- If you are planning to use WebSphere®,
transaction monitors, or your own application server software, install
these products or applications. For information on installing WebSphere consult the documentation
provided with these products as part of the DB2 Connect server product package. For
other products consult the installation documentation provided with
the product.
- Install and configure the IBM® data server client.
Use this workstation to test connectivity from the IBM data server client to IBM mainframe database
servers, as well as to test applications that use this connectivity.
- Use the Configuration Assistant to connect the client to the IBM mainframe system
through DB2 Connect.
- Install a IBM data server client on
all end-user workstations that will use applications that connect
to IBM mainframe
database servers.
- You are now ready to use DB2
Connect with all your applications. Workstations that will be
used for application development should have the IBM data server client installed.
- If you want to use your workstation to administer DB2 for z/OS® or DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows,
install the IBM data server client.