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Process of Preparing for a Siebel Application Deployment on DB2 for z/OS
Preparing to deploy Siebel Business Applications on DB2 for z/OS involves the following steps:
- Review Siebel System Requirements and Supported Platforms on Oracle Technology Network for your Siebel application version and make sure that all requirements are met. For DB2 databases, the requirements include:
- Applying required DB2 maintenance as listed in the IBM informational APAR ii13985.
- Installing a supported version of DB2 Connect and the appropriate IBM Fix Pack, as specified in Siebel System Requirements and Supported Platforms on Oracle Technology Network.
- Installing Unicode Conversion Services if your DB2 database is not Unicode enabled.
- Review the Siebel architecture of the DB2 for z/OS database server.
- Decide on the DB2-related architecture and other related choices:
- The implementation team needs to review Siebel Alerts and Siebel Release Notes on OracleMetaLink 3 to make sure that they are aware of known anomalies.
- Have a project staff:
- Dedicate database administrators (DBAs) to support the Siebel application deployment.
- Establish good working relationships with midtier administrators because some operations, such as installation or upgrade, require close cooperation with these groups of people.
- DB2 DBAs using the Siebel application for the first time need to be aware that in the Siebel application:
- There are many database objects, some of them unused.
- The Siebel data model uses different data types, mainly VARCHAR.
- Dynamic SQL is generated versus traditional SQL precisely coded by developers.
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