For DB2®, install the appropriate DB2 JDBC Type 4 driver and any correlating patches. Go to the IBM® Support Portal at http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Planning for supported version information.
You can obtain these files from the IBM Web site. After you obtain this JDBC driver, record the absolute path to its location on your system. You must supply this absolute path during installation.
If the JDBC driver provided by your database vendor is distributed among multiple files, you must place all the files that comprise the JDBC driver into one .jar file. Follow these steps to create one .jar file:
The type-4 driver does not require a separate Java™ listener running on the database server. Instead, connect directly to the DB2 port.