Installing IBM DB2 Universal Database

IBM DB2 Enterprise Server is one of the supported databases for use with WebSphere Event Broker; other editions of DB2 are also supported. For a full list of suitable databases, see Supported databases.

On Windows, Derby (delivered by IBM Cloudscape) is also supplied with WebSphere Event Broker and can be installed from the Launchpad as part of the WebSphere Event Broker product installation. This database provides sufficient resource for a broker database, and install verification, but is not sufficient for a production system, for which you must install one of the supported databases, for example, DB2 Enterprise Server. For information about how to install Derby as part of the WebSphere Event Broker installation, see the Installation Guide.

For distributed systems, DB2 Enterprise Server Version 8.2 is supplied on a CD supplied with WebSphere Event Broker and can be installed either before or after you have installed WebSphere Event Broker. To install DB2 see the install.html file on the CD. There is also help built into the Install Wizard following license acceptance.

For z/OS systems, either DB2 Version 7.1 or DB2 Version 8.1 is required, but no other databases are supported. You must install DB2 before you install WebSphere Event Broker on z/OS systems.

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