5. Installing DB2
Version 8.2 on OpenSuse 10.0
Before proceeding, please ensure that you have read Section 3 and Section 4.
Note that IBM officially supports this distribution for DB2 UDB
V8.2 only for application development or client purposes.
5.1. Installation
Installing with the DB2 Express Discovery Disc, the
installation went smoothly.
5.2. Post-installation notes
If you have enabled your firewall (the iptables service), and you want to enable
external connectivity to your DB2 server, you must open up
ports 553 and db2 get dbm cfg | grep
SVCENAME in your firewall.