Installation of IBM DB2 V7.1 on SuSE Linux > 6.4

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SuSE Linux: Version later 6.4
This article refers to an older version of SuSE Linux. Therefore some of the informations given in this article may be outdated or the article may contain stale links.

IBM DB/2: Version V7.1

Request

You want to apply the database IBM DB/2 V7.1 on your SuSE Linux

Procedure:


Latest Update 22.08.2000
This is a stepwise installation description to install IBM DB2 V7.1
on SuSE Linux. Current working platforms are:



- Default / Minimum Installation of SuSE Linux
- install paket pdksh from series ap
- IBM JDK 1.1.8 (series pay (SuSE Linux 6.4))
- Change the passwords for the following users (using passwd):
  db2inst1:     ibmdb2
  db2as:        ibmdb2
  db2fenc1:     ibmdb2
- create a .profile in the following home directories for users db2inst1 / db2as with the following content:

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. $HOME/sqllib/db2profile

# The following three lines have been added by UDB DB2.
if [ -f sqllib/db2profile ]; then
    . sqllib/db2profile
fi

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jre1.1.8/

db2jstrt
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