60 Solving Operational Business Intelligence with InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Edition
In the last section, we touch on the “black box” solutions currently supplied by
IBM as a complete system that includes both a hardware component and a
software component.
2.3.1 Scenarios for implementing InfoSphere Warehouse core
products
The components that make up a core InfoSphere Warehouse implementation
can be divided into four Installation categories as follows:
Data Server component
This category covers the main DB2 platform, which is supported on AIX,
HP-UX, Solaris, various Linux implementations, and Windows. For a
warehouse implementation, consider only the 64-bit versions of DB2.
Application server component
This category covers the IBM WebSphere ...