Showing posts with label db2 linux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label db2 linux. Show all posts

Monday, May 31, 2010

Issues with installing DB2 8.1 Development Client on Linux

When running the most obvious command db2setup, it shows the following then nothing happens:

DBI1190I db2setup is preparing the DB2 Setup wizard which will guide you through the program setup process. Please wait.  

Perhaps it is because I am not running X as GUI, but strange it didn't complain about the DISPLAY message.

It can be installed by using db2_install

Post-install is unusual compare to other database installs, you need to run this to create an "instance" with an userid already exist on the system.
However, I get the following error on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)

/opt/IBM/db2/V8.1/instance/db2iutil/db2icrt -a SERVER -s client appuser
DBI1069E Unexpected error. Function = chk_fsystype, Return code = 
          22.  

It seems to be the version of tail issue, you need to change this script:
/opt/IBM/db2/V8.1/instance/db2iutil/db2iutil
global search for "tail +2", change it to "tail -n +2"

[root@hostname]# ./db2icrt -a SERVER -s client appuser
DBI1070I Program db2icrt completed successfully.  


Reference
http://oss.sgi.com/LDP/HOWTO/DB2-HOWTO/db2instance.html