NewPush » Snow Leopard http://newpush.com Server Hosting, Data Warehouse Hosting, Collaboration Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:40:45 +0000 en hourly 1 Installing Informix IDS 11.x on Mac OS Xhttp://newpush.com/2010/09/installing-informix-ids-11-x-on-mac-os-x/ http://newpush.com/2010/09/installing-informix-ids-11-x-on-mac-os-x/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:31:52 +0000 Pete http://newpush.com/?p=670 Continue reading →]]> Problem

Installing IDS 11 on Mac OS X

Solution

After installing the server, update the sqlhosts file and replace the default host name by * so that the server listens on all IPs. The sqlhosts file may be names sqlhosts.ol_server_name, and its contents would look like:

ol_server_name onsoctcp * ol_server_name
dr_server_name drsoctcp * dr_server_name

References

When IDS 11 is officially released, more information will be published here. For now, the following links have pointers:

]]> http://newpush.com/2010/09/installing-informix-ids-11-x-on-mac-os-x/feed/ 0 Installing DB2 Express C 9.5 on Mac OS X 10.6http://newpush.com/2010/01/installing-db2-express-c-9-5-on-mac-os-x-10-6/ http://newpush.com/2010/01/installing-db2-express-c-9-5-on-mac-os-x-10-6/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:10:57 +0000 Balazs http://www.wdream.com/?p=455 Continue reading →]]> 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_profile in 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 by db2fs
  • Make sure TCP/IP service in correctly configured in /etc/services and 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

References

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