Configuring the database application development environment

To configure the database application development environment, you must configure the operating system, Data Server Client, development environment, and transaction manager.

Before you begin

To configure for Db2® database application development, you need (if necessary ) :

A supported operating system
See Supported operating systems for database application development.
The IBM Data Server Client installed
API drivers and, if required, driver managers installed
See Supported database application programming interfaces.
Compilers or interpreters required for the programming languages you will be using installed
See Programming languages and compilers for database application development.
A transaction manager installed
See Supported transaction managers.
Development tools installed
See Supported database application development tools.

About this task

The Db2 database application development environment is composed of several software elements:

operating system
Data Server Client
database application programming interface (API)
programming language
transaction manager
development tools

Each of these elements requires some configuration for Db2 database application development.

Procedure

To configure for Db2 database application development, do the following steps:

Configure the operating system.
See Configuring the operating system for database application development.
Configure the Data Server Client.
See Configuring the IBM Data Server Client for database application development.
Configure the development environment.
See Configuring the development environment for application programming interfaces.
Configure the transaction manager.
See Configure the transaction manager..