IBM DB2 9, DB2 V8 manual REQUIRED FOR zLINUX APPLICATION SERVERS

**Documentation and sample scripts for TSA are available from IBM. If the customer chooses an equivalent product they take full responsibility for configuring and testing that product with mySAP. High availability solutions are available from a number of providers, the customer is responsible for checking with the provider directly to verify their ability to support mySAP HA scenarios.

REQUIRED FOR zLINUX APPLICATION SERVERS

•SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for zSeries - SLES 10 SP1 (glibc 2.4.31.30, kernel 2.6.16.46-0.12-default) or

•SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for zSeries - SLES 9 SP3 (glibc 2.3.3-98.61, kernel-s390x-2.6.5-7.244)

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR zLINUX APPLICATION SERVERS

•z/VM 5.3 - for running zLinux application servers as VM guests

(If using zLinux Application Servers under z/VM, CPINT is available for download from http://linuxvm.org/Patches/ This product allows for calls back to the hosting /VM system from within the zLinux guest.

•z/VM Performance Toolkit

2.Install all applicable z/OS and DB2 PTFs listed in OSS note 81737.

3.TCP/IP is required as the communication protocol and OSA-Express GbE is strongly recommended as the connectivity type. Review configuration and parameters in the SAP R/3 on DB2 UDB for OS/390 and z/OS: Connectivity Guide.

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