The Installation and Configuration Supplement guides you through the planning, installation, migration (if necessary), and set up a platform-specific DB2 client. Once the DB2 client is installed, you will then configure communications for both the client and server, using the DB2 GUI tools or the Command Line Processor. This supplement also contains information on binding, setting up communications on the server, the DB2 GUI tools, and DRDA AS.

This supplement also discusses the configuration of distributed requests and access methods to heterogeneous data sources.

The distributed installation section guides you through a network-wide roll out of DB2 products on all supported platforms. This section also details thin client installation and thin connect architecture.