certification/validation resp. stability of IBM DB2 UDB for state-of-the-art linux distributions (eg. suse 9.0 professional)

[dba_db2 at nospam gmx.net]

Looking at
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data...inux/validate/
it told us that db2 v8.1 is not validated yet for suse90 professional ed.

Do you have any experience regarding the stability of db2
on that or other up to date linux platforms ?
Has anyone using that configuration made a call to the db2 support ?
Does the support appease that questions ?

Best regards.

[Philip Nelson]

dba_db2 at nospam gmx.net wrote:

Looking at
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data...inux/validate/
it told us that db2 v8.1 is not validated yet for suse90 professional ed.

Do you have any experience regarding the stability of db2
on that or other up to date linux platforms ?
Has anyone using that configuration made a call to the db2 support ?
Does the support appease that questions ?

Best regards.

I've been running DB2 V8 successfully on my SuSE 9 Pro laptop for some time.

However, note that this is only MY LAPTOP : it's not being used to run
production services, and any problems encountered would not stop my
business dead. IBM will not provide support other than on the officially
supported platforms (or at least they are not obliged to). For production
use I'd recommend SuSE Enterprise Server.

The first thing you'll find is that you will have problems with the
graphical install. This is due to the version of the Java Developer's Kit
installed by default when SuSE is installed (it's a Sun JDK 1.4 I think).

If you look in the "errata" link on the documentation page above then you
will find a similar problem reported with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
There are two alternative solutions : install a supported JDK (I believe
IBM JDK 1.4.2 ?) or install without the graphical installer using
db2_install. I did the latter : you need to do instance setup and creation
manually afterwards. You'll find this documented in a paper I wrote for
IDUG Solutions Journal -

http://www.idug.org/idug/member/jour.../article04.cfm

I still believe you will need to install a compatible JDK to use the
graphical tools (e.g. control center). Since I tend to be a "command line
junkie" I've not done that yet. although I hope to work on it shortly.

You may also need an external JDK to run Java Stored Procedures. There is a
DBM CFG parameter JDK_PATH which controls which JDK to use.

Any problems don't hesitate to drop me an email.

--
Philip Nelson
ScotDB Limited
http://www.scotdb.com
(te*****@scotdb.com)

[dba_db2 at nospam gmx.net]

Philip Nelson <gu*****@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:<XW**********************@news.easynews.com>. ..

dba_db2 at nospam gmx.net wrote:

Looking at
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data...inux/validate/
it told us that db2 v8.1 is not validated yet for suse90 professional ed.

Do you have any experience regarding the stability of db2
on that or other up to date linux platforms ?
Has anyone using that configuration made a call to the db2 support ?
Does the support appease that questions ?

Best regards.
I've been running DB2 V8 successfully on my SuSE 9 Pro laptop for some time.

However, note that this is only MY LAPTOP : it's not being used to run
production services, and any problems encountered would not stop my
business dead. IBM will not provide support other than on the officially
supported platforms (or at least they are not obliged to). For production
use I'd recommend SuSE Enterprise Server.

The first thing you'll find is that you will have problems with the
graphical install. This is due to the version of the Java Developer's Kit
installed by default when SuSE is installed (it's a Sun JDK 1.4 I think).

If you look in the "errata" link on the documentation page above then you
will find a similar problem reported with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
There are two alternative solutions : install a supported JDK (I believe
IBM JDK 1.4.2 ?) or install without the graphical installer using
db2_install. I did the latter : you need to do instance setup and creation
manually afterwards. You'll find this documented in a paper I wrote for
IDUG Solutions Journal -

http://www.idug.org/idug/member/jour.../article04.cfm

I still believe you will need to install a compatible JDK to use the
graphical tools (e.g. control center). Since I tend to be a "command line
junkie" I've not done that yet. although I hope to work on it shortly.

You may also need an external JDK to run Java Stored Procedures. There is a
DBM CFG parameter JDK_PATH which controls which JDK to use.

Any problems don't hesitate to drop me an email.

We have installed DB2EE on Suse 9.0 and it shows pretty good
performance
and stability.

The hint for installing via gui was to install a IBM JDK 1.4 and
to fake one of the installion files which is located on the
installation
cd. Otherwise we havent managed it that the installer took *our*
JDK!

suse90:/var/IBM_V81_Express_Edition/cdrom/db2/linux/install # diff
db2jinst db2jinst~
129,131c129
< /opt/IBMJava2-141/jre/bin/java $JAVA_OPTIONS -cp $JAVA_CLASSPATH
$DB2SetupRun "$@" 2> /tmp/db2setup.err.running
--- $JAVA_PATH/$JAVA_INTERPRETER $JAVA_OPTIONS -cp $JAVA_CLASSPATH $DB2SetupRun "$@" 2> /tmp/db2setup.err.running

Thanks for your contribution!