Planning for an instance configuration

You must decide the configuration settings for your computer before you create and configure the LDAP environment.

To create a directory server instance or a proxy server instance, you must first create a system user ID who owns the instance. For storing directory data in a directory server instance, you must decide the code page that you want to use.

Installation of IBM® Security Verify Directory and corequisite software products and creation of a directory server instance requires you to create user and group on the computer. Installation of IBM Security Verify Directory corequisite software products, such as DB2®, requires creation of system user ID for DB2 administrator.