Summary
DB2 Express C 9.5 is now available on OS X. As a result OS X developers do not need to use a virtual machine any longer to be able to run DB2 in their favorite development environment. And what more, the latest version available for download also works on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6).
Installation Steps
Antonio Cangiano (see below) has created very good step by step instructions, as well as a demo of the install process. Here are a couple of issues one might encounter:
- I recommend setting up a separate DB2 user to own the db2 install, for example
db2inst1 - After the install or the first start, DB2 might freeze, and prevent any connections. You might need to kill the db2* processes and start DB2 again.
- Remember to source the environment required to run DB2 command line tools:
. sqllib/db2profile - Profile can be loaded automatically by adding the above line to .
bash_profilein your home directory - Allow all admin users to access the DB2 instance:
db2 update dbm cfg using sysadm_group Admin - When trying
db2fs, it will crash on Firefox 3, the easiest fix is to download and old version of Firefox, and give the path to that version when prompted bydb2fs - Make sure TCP/IP service in correctly configured in
/etc/servicesand in DB2:
db2 update dbm cfg using SVCENAME db2c_db2inst1
db2set DB2COMM=tcpip - Add catalog entries for your remote databases:
db2 catalog tcpip node DBNAME remote db2box.domain.com server 5000X
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