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Installing DB2 Version 8.2 on OpenSuse 10.0

5. Installing DB2 Version 8.2 on OpenSuse 10.0

Before proceeding, please ensure that you have read Section 3 and Section 4.

Note that IBM officially supports this distribution for DB2 UDB V8.2 only for application development or client purposes.

5.1. Installation

Installing with the DB2 Express Discovery Disc, the installation went smoothly.

5.2. Post-installation notes

If you have enabled your firewall (the iptables service), and you want to enable external connectivity to your DB2 server, you must open up ports 553 and db2 get dbm cfg | grep SVCENAME in your firewall.