Pre-Installation Requirements for the Single-Tier "Lite" Edition ODBC Driver for IBM DB2, for Unix-like OS

There are no Unix-based Lite drivers for DB2 at this time

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.

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