4.1  DB2 UDB ESE V8.1.4 on Linux

Regardless of the platform and the environment used for your migration project 

verification of the hardware and software requirements is the

starting block.

4.1.1  System requirements

This section provides supported Linux distribution information, hardware, 

software, and communication requirements of DB2 UDB on Linux environment.

Linux distributions supported by DB2

Table 4 1 lists some IBM DB2 validated Linux distributions at the time of writing 

this book. For the most recent, all supported Linux distributions that have gone 

successfully through the IBM DB2 for Linux validation program, check:

http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/linux/validate/

Table 4 1   Currently supported Linux distributions, kernels, and libraries

Platform

Distribution

Kernel

Library

Comment

x86

Red Hat Enterprise 

2.4.9 e16

glibc 2.2.4

Linux 2.1 AS/ES/WS

Red Hat 8.0

2.4.18 14

glibc 2.2.93 5

Red Hat Enterprise 

2.4.21 4.EL

glibc 2.3.2 95

Not yet 

Linux (RHEL) 3 

.3

supported for 

AS/ES/WS

production use. 

SuSE Pro 8.0

2.4.18

glibc 2.2.5

SuSE Pro 8.1

2.4.19

glibc 2.2.5

SuSE Linux Enterprise 

2.4.7

2.4.7

Server (SLES) 7

SuSE Linux Enterprise 

2.4.19

glibc 2.2.5

Validated up to 

Server (SLES) 8

SuSE Service 

Pack 2 level

To learn more about the IBM DB2 UDB for Linux validation program go to:

http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/linux/validate/progdesc.html

Hardware requirements 

IBM hardware is supported for DB2 UDB Workgroup Server Edition and DB2 

UDB Workgroup Server Unlimited Edition:

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