What you should know first
Before installing IBM Storage Protect, be familiar with your operating systems, storage devices, communication protocols, and system configurations.
Server maintenance releases, client software, and publications are available from the IBM® Support Portal.
Restriction: You can install and run the IBM
Storage Protect server on a system that already has IBM
Db2 installed on it, whether Db2 was installed independently or as part of some
other application, with some restrictions.
For details, see the compatibility with other Db2 products topic.
Restriction: You cannot install and run the server on a system that
already has Db2 installed on it, whether Db2
was installed by itself or as part of some other application. The server requires the installation
and use of the Db2 version that is packaged with the server. No other version of Db2 can exist on
the system.You can install the IBM
Storage Protect
server on a domain controller. The server can have heavy processor usage, however, and that might
affect and stall other applications.
Experienced Db2 administrators can choose to perform advanced SQL queries and use Db2 tools to monitor the database. Do not, however, use Db2 tools to change Db2 configuration settings from those that are preset by IBM Storage Protect, or alter the Db2 environment for IBM Storage Protect in other ways, such as with other products. The server has been built and tested extensively using the data definition language (DDL) and database configuration that the server deploys.