Installing the Netezza SQL Extensions toolkit

To install the IBM® Netezza® SQL Extensions toolkit, you must copy the software package to the Netezza system and uncompress the file.

1. Log in to the Netezza system as the nz user.
2. Copy the SQL software package to a directory on the Netezza system such as /export/home/nz/sqlext or another location. If you are installing from media, you can typically copy the files from the media to the temporary directory.
3. Extract the package by using the tar xvf <packagename> command. The following is an example for the sql-ext-version.tar.gz file:

      tar xvf  sql-ext-version.tar.gz

   The command extracts two files, libnetcrypto-version.tar.gz and libnetxml-version.tar.gz.

4. Extract the software files and compiled objects in the libnetcrypto-version.tar.gz file:

      tar xvf libnetcrypto-version.tar.gz 

   The command uncompresses and extracts the contents to a directory named libnetcrypto/version in the current directory, where version is the version number of the SQL Extensions toolkit.

5. Extract the software files and compiled objects in the libnetxml-version.tar.gz file:

      tar xvf libnetxml-version.tar.gz 

   The command uncompresses and extracts the contents to a directory named libnetxml/version in the current directory, where version is the version number of the SQL Extensions toolkit.