Installation

The Spatial Extender server is available on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Windows NT, and Windows 2000. There are some operating system differences between workstation and host platforms. This chapter concentrates on the workstation platform's behavior.

The installation process varies by platform. For UNIX platforms, log in as a root user. For Windows platforms, log in as an administrator. On AIX, Text Extender is installed using the smit tool or installp. On Sun, the product is installed using pkgadd. On HP-UX, use the swinstall tool. On Windows platforms, run the setup.exe executable.

Similar to other products in the DB2 Extender family, Spatial Extender also requires an instance to be created. All database instances created after ...

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