Before you install data server products
on AIX® operating systems, ensure
that the system you choose meets the necessary operating system, hardware,
software, and communications requirements.
For
the most up-to-date installation requirements for data server products,
see System requirements for IBM® DB2® for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
This techdoc uses 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 these database products.
Note: If
the minimum operating system requirements were applied using an operating
system upgrade rather than using a new operating system installation,
you must install I/O completion ports (IOCP) separately.
You
can obtain the IOCP libraries from the AIX installation
CD and configure IOCP on the data server. For a client only installation,
IOCP is not required. For more information, see
configuring IOCP on AIX.
Software considerations
- For application development and runtime considerations, see the
topics in Supported programming languages and compilers for database
application development.
- You can download the latest IBM C++
Runtime Environment Components for AIX at
the IBM AIX XL C and C++ support website.
- (Clients only) If you plan to use Kerberos Authentication, you
require IBM Network Authentication
Service client v1.4 or later.
- Use the bosboot command to switch to the 64-bit
kernel.
To switch to a 64-bit kernel, you require root authority
and enter the following commands:
ln -sf /usr/lib/boot/unix_64 /unix
ln -sf /usr/lib/boot/unix_64 /usr/lib/boot/unix
bosboot -a
shutdown -Fr
- An X Window System software capable of rendering a graphical user
interface is required if you want to use the DB2 Setup wizard
to install a data server product on Linux or UNIX operating
systems.
- Live
Partition Mobility (LPM) is supported in partitioned database environments
with multi physical node configurations.
- For details regarding known AIX issues,
see www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21165448
Mounting considerations
For root installations
of data server products on UNIX operating
systems, do not mount your file system with the nosetuid option.