Pre-Installation Requirements for the Single-Tier "Lite" Edition ODBC Driver for IBM DB2, for Unix-like OS DBMS Requirements You need to know a variety of information pertaining to your target DB2 instance and database: Database Name DB2 Instance Name TCP Port Number Database Server Hostname or IP Address Software Requirements You need to obtain the DB2 native client and install it on the same machine as OpenLink's Lite driver. You must ensure that this client connects to DB2. The DB2 native client ships with the DBMS install media. It may also be downloaded from the IBM Software Mall. Configuration Requirements You need to configure a local DB2 database alias. Next... Proceed to Installation & Configuration.