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DOMINO AND DB2

Supported platforms and hardware and software requirements
IBM® Lotus® Domino™ can use Query Views, as well as some IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Designer features for DB2 Access Views. Any version of the IBM® Lotus® Notes® C-API program that can access the DB2 enabled Domino server can also access IBM Lotus Notes databases stored in IBM® DB2 Universal Database™ Enterprise Server Edition.

Supported platforms

Domino 8.0, 32-bit application is supported on the following platforms:

Microsoft® Windows® 32-bit and MS Windows 64-bit
IBM® AIX® 5.3, 64-bit
Linux® (SLES10) 64-bit

DB2 9.1, 32-bit is certified on Microsoft Windows; DB2 9.1, 64-bit is certified on IBM AIX and Linux. DB2 9.1 can be installed on the following platforms:

MS Windows 32-bit and MS Windows 64-bit
IBM AIX 5.3, 64-bit
Linux (SLES10) 64-bit

Note Shared mail is not supported for a DB2 server. The recommended method of installation is to create a new DB2-enabled Domino server and replicate to DB2. If an existing server is upgraded to a DB2-enabled Domino server, the shared mail linked mail files need be unlinked prior to the upgrade.

Prerequisites for IBM AIX

64-bit kernel
POWER4 or more recent hardware

Software requirements

IBM® Lotus® Domino™ server 8.0
IBM Lotus Domino Administrator 8.0
IBM® DB2 Universal Database™ Enterprise Server Edition, version 9.1.
Note If your configuration includes DB2 on the Domino server and DB2 on a DB2 server, both servers must be running DB2 9.1.
DB2® Run-Time Client is required for remote configurations
Caution Do not confuse the DB2 Run-Time Client with the DB2 Run Time Client Lite (RTCL). The DB2 Run Time Client Lite is NOT supported.
IBM DB2 Access for Lotus Domino 8.0
IBM Lotus Notes Client 8.0

Memory requirements for a DB2 enabled Domino server, Microsoft Windows or IBM AIX and Linux

Microsoft Windows platform

Computers require a minimum 1 GB RAM, 2GHz Processor.
On a local configuration, that is, the IBM® Lotus® Domino™ server and the IBM® DB2 Universal Database™ Enterprise Server Edition server are installed and running on the same Microsoft® Windows® computer, the computer should be dedicated to Domino and have no more than one DB2 instance and one DB2 database for the Domino server.
On a remote configuration, that is, the Domino server and the DB2 server are installed on and are running on separate computers, the DB2 server must have one DB2 instance and one DB2 database for the Domino server.

IBM AIX and Linux platform

The DB2 Server can be configured with multiple DB2 instances but can only have one DB2 instance and one DB2 database per Domino Server.
A minimum of 1GB memory per DB2 instance
The Input Output Completion Protocol (IOCP) must be installed on IBM® AIX® systems on which the DB2 Access server is installed. If Domino has not been installed on the computer where the DB2 Access server is to be installed, you must manually verify that IOCP is installed and enabled prior to installing the DB2 Access server.

Other requirements

Transaction logging must be enabled to run the DB2 enabled Domino server. When you enable transaction logging on the Server document, set the log file size to at least 192 MB.
UTF-8 is supported for Domino and DB2. New databases are created as UTF-8 databases. No other database encoding is supported.

What's not supported in this release of Domino and DB2?

Domino and DB2 does not support the use of the following:

IMAP4
ODS version 41
Domino's extended ACLs are not supported with DB2 enabled Notes databases.
SCOS (shared mail)
System databases are not supported as DB2 enabled Notes databases (NAMES.NSF, LOG.NSF, etc.)

For more information about which databases are not supported as DB2 enabled Notes databases, see the topic Databases created with Domino.

Memory and hardware requirements

2 GHz processor
1 GB RAM

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