DB2 is a relational DBMS (Database Management System) created by IBM.
Questions tagged [db2]
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DB2 to Oracle Migration
I am migrating a very large and complex database from DB2 to Oracle 11g. Can someone suggest any tools / processes to do this very quickly. My database is about 500 GB and it cannot have downtime much more than about 4-6 hours maybe a little more…

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DB2 2 Slow Authentication / Connection Establish
I have a DB2 server installed on Windows 2008, and found that the local OS users are instantly authenticated, but the server take a long time to authenticate LDAP (AD) users, more than 3 minutes but it will success. If i provide the wrong password,…

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DB2 Express-C 9.5.2 error SQL0980C
We identified that the daily backup scheduled for our database was not obtained because the tablespace "SYSTOOLSPACE" was offline, so looking in the internet found that could be solved by running the following command
ALTER TABLESPACE SWITCH…

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Move DB2 services user from local to domain
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 running IBM DB2 using the local account .\DB2 for services.
As I have to promote this server to domain controller, local users won't be available anymore and I need to substitute DB2 local service account with domain…

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DB2 UDF Permissions
I have a custom function that I'm working on... the problem I'm having is simple: Permssions.
example function:
drop function circle_area
go
CREATE FUNCTION circle_area (radius FLOAT)
RETURNS FLOAT LANGUAGE SQL
BEGIN
DECLARE pi FLOAT DEFAULT…

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DB2 V9.7 upgrade failure
I'm upgrading a V9.1 to a v9.7
The scripts for compatibility checks pass but
/opt/ibm/db2/V9.7/instance/db2iupgrade
-d -u db2fenc1 db2inst1
fails with the following error message:
db2: symbol lookup error: db2: undefined symbol:…

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db2 cannot restore from mounted directory?
db2 restore db databaseName from Directory doesn't work (hangs there and does nothing, no error, no time out) for me if the Directory is a nfs mounted directory. Any idea how to make it work?
db2 v 9.7
mounted from / to SuSe
Update I
db2 restore…

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Need DB2 OLEDB Driver / ODBC Driver
I am trying to establish a connection between excel and db2. I am able to successfully query and retrieve data from my DB.
I am using the below connection string
Provider=IBMDADB2;Database=RQAPROJ;HOSTNAME=jebal…

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Is ALTER COLUMN SET DATA TYPE supported for DB2 8.2.4 for AIX?
I am trying to expand a column from SMALLINT to BIGINT.
I get the error:
SQL0104N An unexpected token "BIGINT" was found following ""TYPE SET DATA TYPE". Expected tokens may include:"". SQLSTATE=42601

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DB2 in VMWare
Does anyone have any suggestions for running DB2 in VMWare? We've been told not to do it, but I see VMWare as a supported environment from IBM.

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Oracle/DB2 compare
I need to find definitions or explanations (DB2 and Oracle) for:
instance
database
connection
authority
authorization
transaction log
tablespace
application
agent
lock
lock timeout
Do someone know where can I find this?

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How can i back up transaction log of a db2 database?
i search infocenter of Ibm Db2 for backing up the transaction log but i can't figure out. using Tivoli Storage manager software is an option for back up i learned from infocenter. but how can i back up the transaction logs without TSM software

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db2 SQL30082N error
We're using db2 9.5 and on rare occasions get the following error when attempting to connect to the database. The program is forked from another process and trying a second time always succeeds.
[IBM][CLI Driver] SQL30082N Attempt to establish…

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What steps are required to get DB2 working again after renaming the Windows XP system it was running on?
I think this is a fairly well known problem, but I haven't found a really solid solution to add to my toolbox.
Here's the sequence of steps that leads to the problem:
Install Windows (e.g., XP), naming the system XXX
Install DB2 and create some…

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db2 tablespace size and performance impact
Originally when we began moving to db2 LUW we ran into some issues where our tables were too big to fit into the default 4K table space. As a result of "pressure" to get it done we just went with a 32K default table space and put ALL of our tables…

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