Configuring IPX/SPX

You can setup IPX/SPX support for two different types of addressing, depending on the DB2 server that you run:

• Direct Addressing

  Configure this type of addressing if the DB2 server will be accessed by clients using only direct addressing.

• File Server Addressing

  Configure this type of addressing if the DB2 server will be accessed by clients using:

  • File server addressing and direct addressing

    or

  • File server addressing only.

  Note:

  For file server addressing, the following characters are not valid for the file server or object name parameters: / \ : ; , * ?

The NetWare information that you need is as follows:

• For Direct Addressing, you need only the socket number. Type or select the socket number that is used for this server instance in the Socket number box. The Internetwork address field displays the address that must be used by a client system to connect to this server. For example: 09212700.400011527745.879E

• For File Server Addressing, you need the file server, object name, socket number, NetWare user ID and password.
  1. Type or select the socket number that is used for this server instance in the Socket number box.
  2. Select the Register with file server check box.
  3. Type the name of the file server in the File server field.
  4. Type the object name in the Object name field.
  5. Type the NetWare user ID, that will be used to register the object name on the NetWare file server, in the NetWare user ID field.
  6. Type the NetWare user ID's password in the NetWare password field.

Note:

The file server and object name parameters must be entered in upper case. The following characters are not valid for the file server and object name parameters: /\:;,*?

The following is a brief description of the items you might need.

File server

Specifies the name of the NetWare file server where the internetwork address of the database manager will be registered.

The internetwork address of the database manager is stored in the bindery at the NetWare file server.

Object name

Represents a particular database manager in the network, and should be unique for each DB2 server instance registered at a NetWare file server.

Socket number

Specifies a well-known static socket number and represents the connection endpoint in a DB2 server's internetwork address. It must be entered in hexadecimal.

The socket number defaults to 0x879E (change this value if running more than 1 DB2 server instance). DB2 has registered well-known sockets with Novell in the range 0x879E to 0x87A1 for the customer's use.

The socket number (ipx_socket) must be unique for every DB2 server instance on a machine. It must also be unique among all IPX/SPX applications running on the DB2 server machine to ensure that the DB2 server is able to listen to incoming IPX/SPX connections using this socket number.

NetWare user ID

The user ID that is used to register the DB2 object name at a NetWare file server must have supervisory or equivalent authority.