DB2 Connect Quick Beginnings for UNIX**

Before You Begin Installing

Before you begin the installation, be sure that you have the following items and information:

1. Ensure that your system meets all of the memory, hardware, and software requirements to install your DB2 product. For more information, see Planning for Installation.
2. The protocol to be used for host connectivity:

   __  1.	Direct connection via SNA using Integrated SNA support or a third part SNA product.
   __  2.	Direct connection via TCP/IP
   __  3.	MPTN

3. A user ID to perform the installation.

   If UPM is installed, the user ID you specify must have Administrator or Local Administrator authority. Create a user ID with these characteristics if necessary.

   If UPM is not installed, DB2 will install it and set up the user ID USERID with password PASSWORD.

4. To verify that DB2 installed correctly, you will need to have a user account that belongs to the DB2 System Administrative (SYSADM) group, is 8 characters or less, and complies with all of DB2's naming rules.

   By default, any user that belongs to the Local Administrators group, on the local machine where the account is defined, has SYSADM authority on the instance. For more information, see Working with the System Administrative Group. For more information on valid DB2 usernames, see Appendix D, Naming Rules.