User's Guide and Reference

System requirements

This section explains the software and hardware requirements for DB2 Spatial Extender.

Supported operating systems

DB2 Spatial Extender can be installed on the following operating systems:

Required database software

Before you install DB2 Spatial Extender, you must have DB2 software installed and configured on your system. Table 1 lists the database software requirements for both the DB2 Spatial Extender client component and the DB2 Spatial Extender server component.


Table 1.
Minimum software requirements
Component Software

Client

DB2 Administration Client, Version 7.11

Server

Either:

  • DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition, Version 7.1
  • DB2 Universal Database Enterprise - Extended Edition, Version 7.12


Notes:

  1. If you are not planning to use the DB2 Control Center, a geobrowser to access spatial data, or the DB2 Spatial Extender sample program, you can use a down-level version of DB2 Administration Client.

  2. Although you can use DB2 Spatial Extender with the DB2 Universal Database Enterprise - Extended Edition, the spatial index cannot be partitioned across multiple nodes as in the massive parallel processing (MPP) environment.

Disk space requirements

Table 2 lists the recommended disk space requirements for DB2 Spatial Extender.

Table 2. Disk space requirements
DB2 Spatial Extender component Disk space

DB2 Spatial Extender server library (includes DB2 Spatial Extender server library, geocoder reference data, and documentation)

600 MB

DB2 Spatial Extender client support (includes the sample program data)

15 MB

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