DB2 UDB9.1 support as CE10 CMS and Audit database

Does any body know if DB2 UDB 9.1 is supported as CMS and Audit database for Crystal Enterprise (CE) version 10?
I know CE 10 is not supported by BO any more, we are in the process of migrating to BOXI but mean while we have a need to upgrade DB2 UDB from 8.1 to 9.1 version.
Also did any one encounter any issues using CE10 against DB2 UDB 9.1.
Please advise.
Thanks

Hello Romain,
Thank you very much for your clarifications.
I guess there was a second question hidden behind my first question.
Here is the whole story, we had a workshop yesterday with some Consultants specialized on BI.4 technologies. We were discussing the architecture, and more particularly which would be the most suitable Web Application Server :
* It seems that most SAP Customers choose the bundled WAS : Tomcat 7
* But as SAP Basis Administrators,we had pretty much no previous exposure to Tomcat/Apache Technologies
* The Consultants told us that an increasing number of SAP Customers are choosing SAP NW AS for deployment of BOE.war and other BI webapps
* But so are now considering installing dedicated Netweaver AS on Windows, that will be acting as BI 4.1 Application Servers. We do not plan to deploy BI 4.1 applications on any of our existing NW AS ,as they have been installed on HP-UX ( not supported by BI.4 )
The only problem with that is that you can not install a Netweaver AS, without its corresponding Database, so I was wondering if that New Oracle Database installed only when deploying"NW AS/BI 4 Web application Tier", could be used as the CMS/Audit Database.
Your latest answer seems to suggest that it is definitely not a good idea.
The thing is , that we do not want to end up with two databases per Landscape tier (DEV,QAS,PRD)
I hope it is a bit more clear.
Thank you

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> We want to upgrade from 11.2.3 to 11.3.0a.
>
> We are a small office with < 100 users. We have two primary servers and
> one satellite server off site. The primary servers are SLES 11 SP2 and
> use the embedded Sybase database.
>
> In the upgrade documentation, under Prerequisites there is the following
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>
> (Recommendation) For server upgrade both OEM ZENworks database and Audit
> database cannot be present on the same device; different devices have to
> host the databases.
>
> So, is it recommended to have the databases on different devices or
> required (cannot be present on the same device)? Does that mean I have
> to create a new server to host the audit database? What does this line
> mean exactly.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>
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