System Requirements - DB2 iDataAgent

The following requirements are for the DB2 iDataAgent:

Application/Operating System

Processor

DB2 8.1 Universal Database 32-bit on:

AIX

AIX 5.3 with technology level 6 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 6.1

Power PC (Includes IBM System p)

Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 3.x with glibc 2.3.x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 4.x with glibc 2.3.x

Intel Pentium or compatible processors

Solaris

Solaris 8 with a minimum of Service Packs 108528-13

Solaris 9

Sun Sparc5 or higher recommended

Windows

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-bit Editions with a minimum of Service Pack 1

All Windows-compatible processors supported

DB2 8.1 Universal Database 64-bit on:

AIX

AIX 5.2 with a minimum of technology level 10 and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 5.3 with technology level 6 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 6.1 64-bit

Power PC (Includes IBM System p)

HP-UX

HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11)

 PA-RISC

Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 4.x with glibc 2.3.x

Intel Pentium or compatible processors

Solaris

Solaris 8 with a minimum of Service Packs 108528-13

Solaris 9

Solaris 10.x

 

Windows

Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions with a minimum of Service Pack 1

All Windows-compatible processors supported

 

DB2 8.2 Universal Database 32-bit on:

AIX

AIX 5.2 with technology level 10 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 5.3 with technology level 6 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 6.1

Power PC (Includes IBM System p)

HP-UX

 HP-UX 11.11

HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)

Intel Itanium
HP-UX 11.11

HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)

PA-RISC

Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 3.x with glibc 2.3.x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 4.x with glibc 2.3.x

Intel Pentium or compatible processors

Solaris

Solaris 8 with a minimum of Service Packs 108434-09

Solaris 9

Solaris 10.x

Sun Sparc5 or higher recommended

 

Windows

Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-bit Editions with a minimum of Service Pack 1

All Windows-compatible processors supported

DB2 8.2 Universal Database 64-bit on:

AIX

AIX 5.3 with technology level 6 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 6.1 64-bit

Power PC (Includes IBM System p)

HP-UX

HP-UX 11.31

Intel Itanium

HP-UX 11.31

PA-RISC

Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 3.x with glibc 2.3.x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 4.x with glibc 2.3.x

x64

Solaris

Solaris 8 with a minimum of Service Packs 108434-09

Solaris 9

Solaris 10.x

Sun Sparc5 or higher recommended

 

Windows

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions with a minimum of Service Pack 1

All Windows-compatible processors supported

 

DB2 9.1 Universal Database 32-bit on:

AIX

AIX 5.2 with technology level 10 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 5.3 with technology level 6 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 6.1

Power PC (Includes IBM System p)

HP-UX

 HP-UX 11.11

HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)

Intel Itanium

 
HP-UX 11.11

HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)

PA-RISC

Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 4.x with glibc 2.3.x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 5.x with glibc 2.5.x

Intel Pentium or compatible processors

SuSE Linux

SuSE Linux 9.x with glibc 2.3.x

SuSE Linux 10.x with glibc 2.4.x

SuSE Linux 11.x with glibc 2.9.x

Intel Pentium or compatible processors

 

Solaris

Solaris 9

Solaris 10.x

Sun Sparc5 or higher recommended

 

Windows

Windows 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-bit Editions with a minimum of Service Pack 1

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Editions

Windows 2008

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit Editions*

*Core and R2 Editions not supported

All Windows-compatible processors supported

 

DB2 9.1 Universal Database 64-bit on:

AIX

AIX 5.3 with technology level 6 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 6.1 64-bit

Power PC (Includes IBM System p)

HP-UX

HP-UX 11.31

Intel Itanium

HP-UX 11.31

PA-RISC

Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 4.x with glibc 2.3.x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 5.x with glibc 2.5.x

x64

SuSE Linux

SuSE Linux 9.x with glibc 2.3.x

SuSE Linux 10.x with glibc 2.4.x

SuSE Linux 11.x with glibc 2.9.x

x64

 

Solaris

Solaris 9

Solaris 10.x

Sun Sparc5 or higher recommended

 

Solaris 10.x

x64

 

Windows

Windows 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions with a minimum of Service Pack 1

Windows 2008

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Editions*

*Core and R2 Editions not supported

All Windows-compatible processors supported

 

DB2 9.5 Universal Database 32-bit on:

Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 5.x with glibc 2.5.x

Intel Pentium or compatible processors

 

 

SuSE Linux

SuSE Linux 9.x with glibc 2.3.x

SuSE Linux 10.x with glibc 2.4.x

SuSE Linux 11.x with glibc 2.9.x

Intel Itanium

Windows

Windows 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-bit Editions with a minimum of Service Pack 1

Windows 2008

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit Editions*

*Core and R2 Editions not supported

All Windows-compatible processors supported

 

DB2 9.5 Universal Database 64-bit on:

AIX

AIX 5.3 with technology level 6 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 6.1

Power PC (Includes IBM System p)

HP-UX

HP-UX 11.31

Intel Itanium

Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 5.x with glibc 2.5.x

x64

 

 

SuSE Linux

SuSE Linux 9.x with glibc 2.3.x

SuSE Linux 10.x with glibc 2.4.x

SuSE Linux 11.x with glibc 2.9.x

Intel Itanium

Solaris

Solaris 9

Solaris 10.x

Sun Sparc5 or higher recommended

 

Solaris 10.x

x64

 

Windows

Windows 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions with a minimum of Service Pack 1

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Editions

Windows 2008

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Editions*

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Editions

*Core Editions not supported

All Windows-compatible processors supported

 

DB2 9.7 Universal Database 32-bit on:

Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 5.x with glibc 2.5.x

Intel Pentium or compatible processors

 

 

SuSE Linux

SuSE Linux 10.x with glibc 2.4.x

SuSE Linux 11.x with glibc 2.9.x

Intel Itanium

Windows

Windows 2008

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit Editions*

*Core and R2 Editions not supported

All Windows-compatible processors supported

 

DB2 9.7 Universal Database 64-bit on:

AIX

AIX 5.3 with technology level 6 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 6.1

Power PC (Includes IBM System p)

HP-UX

HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)

HP-UX 11.31

Intel Itanium

Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 5.x with glibc 2.5.x

x64

 

 

 SuSE Linux

SuSE Linux 10.x with glibc 2.4.x

SuSE Linux 11.x with glibc 2.9.x

Intel Itanium

Solaris

Solaris 9

Solaris 10.x

Sun Sparc5 or higher recommended

 

Solaris 10.x

x64

 

Windows

Windows 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Editions

Windows 2008

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Editions*

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Editions

*Core Editions not supported

All Windows-compatible processors supported

 

Cluster Support

See Clustering - Support

Memory

Windows

32 MB RAM minimum required beyond the requirements of the operating system and running applications

AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Solaris

64 MB RAM per stream/drive minimum required beyond the requirements of the operating system and running applications

Swap space = 2*RAM size

Hard Disk

Windows

112 MB minimum of hard disk space for software/ 498 MB recommended

100 MB of additional hard disk space for log file growth

80 MB of temp space required for install or upgrade (where the temp folder resides)

Unix

365 MB minimum of hard disk space for software

Peripherals

DVD-ROM drive

Network Interface Card

Miscellaneous

TCP/IP Services configured on the computer.

The File System iDataAgent will be automatically installed during installation of the DB2 iDataAgent if it is not already installed. For System Requirements and install information specific to the File System iDataAgents, refer to:

On Solaris computers, the operating system must have been installed with at least the user level software option selected.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package is automatically installed. Note that Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package can co-exist with other versions of this software.

If you have SELinux enabled on the client computer, create the SELinux policy module as a root user before performing a backup. The SELinux Development package must be installed on the client.

To create SELinux policy module, perform the following steps as user "root":

  1. Create the following files in the /usr/share/selinux/devel directory:
File Name Content of the file
<directory>/<file_name>.te

where:

<directory> is /usr/share/selinux/devel

<file_name> is the name of the Unix file, created to save the policy module statement. It is a good idea to use the same name for policy module and the file.

For example: When you are creating a policy module for backup_IDA application, you can use the following file name: backup_IDA.te

 

 The content of the file should be as follows:

policy_module(<name>,<version>)

##############################

where:

<name> is the name of the policy module. You can give any unique name to the policy module, such as a process or application name.

<version> is the version of the policy module. It can be any number, such as 1.0.0.

For Example: While creating a policy module for the backup_IDA application, you can use the following content.

policy_module(backup_IDA,1.0.0)
<directory>/<file_name>.fc

where:

<directory> is /usr/share/selinux/devel

<file_name> is the name of the Unix file, created to save the policy module statement. It is a good idea to use the same name for policy module and the file.

For example: When you are creating a policy module for backup_IDA application, you can use the following file name: backup_IDA.fc

 

 The content of the file should be as follows:

Note that the following list of files is not exhaustive. If the process fails to launch, check /var/log/messages. Also, if required, add it to the following list of files.

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libCTreeWrapper.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libCVMAGuiImplgso -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libdb2locale.so.1 -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libdb2osse.so.1 -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libDb2Sbt.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libdb2trcapi.so.1 -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libDrDatabase.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libIndexing.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libSnooper.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

 
  1. Create the policy file from command line. Use the following command. Ensure that you give the following commands in the /usr/share/selinux/devel directory.

[root]# make backup_IDA.pp

Compiling targeted backup_IDA module

/usr/bin/checkmodule: loading policy configuration from tmp/backup_IDA.tmp

/usr/bin/checkmodule: policy configuration loaded

/usr/bin/checkmodule: writing binary representation (version 6) to tmp/backup_IDA.mod

Creating targeted backup_IDA.pp policy package

rm tmp/backup_IDA.mod tmp/backup_IDA.mod.fc

[root]# semodule -i backup_IDA.pp

[root]#

  1. Execute the policy module. Use the following command:

[root]# restorecon -R /opt/<software installation directory>

SELinux is now configured to work with this application.

DISCLAIMER

Minor revisions and/or service packs that are released by application and operating system vendors may, in some cases, affect the working of our software. Although we may list such revisions and/or service packs as “supported” in our System Requirements, changes to the behavior of our software resulting from an application or operating system revision/service pack may be beyond our control. However, we will make every effort to correct such disruption as quickly as possible. When in doubt, please contact your software provider to ensure support for a specific application or operating system.

Additional considerations regarding minimum requirements and End of Life policies from application and operating system vendors are also applicable.