by Vikram Khatri | Jun 15, 2012
The open source iscsitarget provides a great way to do SAN on a laptop using VMware. This is good for testing and learning purposes. We use iscsitarget to export devices so that we can use them for the shared database by multiple hosts in a DB2 pureScale environment....
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 12, 2012
Scott Hayes, CEO of DBI gave me the opportunity to do the IBM DB2 10.1 HADR Presentation on his DB2 Night Show. Follow this link: http://www.dbisoftware.com/blog/db2nightshow.php?id=372
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 12, 2012
DB2 10.1 pureScale requires an optional but highly recommended SCSI-3 PR capable storage. DB2 10.1 pureScale requires a mandatory tie breaker disk which should be SCSI-3 PR capable. Optionally, you can configure an IP address to be a tie-breaker disk but this is not...
by Vikram Khatri | May 24, 2012
If you accidentlly applied ROLLFORWARD command to the standby HADR database, you can put the database back to the rollforward pending mode by using db2 supplied utility db2rfpen. $ db2rfpen on hadb...
by Vikram Khatri | May 23, 2012
In today's virtualized environment, it is easier to clone a virtual machine from an existing one. When DB2 is already installed with Tivoli SA MP for high availability, we need to also make sure that each host has a unique node id otherwise HA configuration will...
by Vikram Khatri | May 9, 2012
If you are spoiled using BGInfo of Windows to show some useful information on your desktop, you may try this poorly written but working script that does the same thing. This was written for SuSe Linux but can be adapted for other distribution. If you happen to make...
by Vikram Khatri | May 5, 2012
The scripts that I am sharing are used to do the DB2 pureScale install on 'n' number of hosts. One of the issue is to have consistent /etc/hosts file on all nodes. The input file is ip.txt similar to the previous posts. Script to generate and copy hosts...
by Vikram Khatri | May 5, 2012
If you need to set up a passwordless SSH between multiple hosts, you can try the following script to do it automatically for you rather than manually copying the keys from one hosts to another. The script needs an input file ip.txt that has server information for all...
by Vikram Khatri | Mar 19, 2012
You can monitor dynamic SQL statements by using SYSIBMADM.TOP_DYNAMIC_SQL view but you need an event monitor to monitor SQL statements inside a DB2 Stored Procedures as those statemets are static in nature. Let us understand this through a simple exercise: Step-A:...
by Vikram Khatri | Mar 14, 2012
The default port to use Optim Performance Manager for web console is 55000 and 55001 for SSL. This requires opening up 55000 through firewall and what if you want to use port 80 on the OPM Server. It is little tricky since OPM Web Console runs as non-root user and...
by Vikram Khatri | Dec 9, 2010
Equivalent of Oracle KEEP can be in DB2 using a nested query OVER (PARTITION BY ..) and then using MAX and MIN on top of it without having any extra sort. It is best explained by an example: Case-1: Oracle query using KEEP function: CREATE TABLE emp(id INTEGER, name...
by Vikram Khatri | Dec 6, 2010
Steve Rees and Hania El Ayoubi from Toronto Lab have shared this utility function written in SQL PL to browse table data in column value pair. It becomes useful when browsing wide table data. For example, if one looks at the table sysibmadm.mon_db_summary or table...
by Vikram Khatri | Nov 11, 2010
If a table is created with an IDENTITY column and you need to make sure that your identity column starts from the last max value that you load the data. IBM Data Movement Tool does this automatically but if you are not using the tool and want a way to sync up start...
by Vikram Khatri | Sep 22, 2010
Packaging for DB2 client has changed. Review this article for detailed information and how to download thin / thick clients
by Vikram Khatri | Sep 22, 2010
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by Vikram Khatri | Dec 22, 2009
If you are using DB2 Control Center on Windows and wondering how to set the code page of your choice, follow these steps. Open a DB2 command window: C:\>SET DB2CODEPAGE=1208 C:\>db2cc The first command sets the environment variable DB2CODEPAGE to 1208 (UTF-8) and...
by Vikram Khatri | Nov 2, 2009
Steps to configure Oracle database federation from DB2 on zLinux. (Or any kind of *nix) These steps are for Oracle database (any supported version from Oracle) to DB2 9.5 but they should work as it is for DB2 9.7 or later with proper Oracle client install. 1. Install...
by Vikram Khatri | Nov 2, 2009
Steps to configure SQL Server federation from zLinux. (Or any kind of *nix) These steps are for DB2 9.5 but they should work as it is for DB2 9.7 or later with proper install of IBM branded ODBC drivers. 1. Install DB2 2. Install IBM Branded DataDirect ODBC Drivers....
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 21, 2009
When you want SP to return message_text and you also want to handle error code as per your choice, follow this simple example. CREATE PROCEDURE myproc( OUT v_msg VARCHAR(300)) LANGUAGE SQL BEGIN DECLARE V_ERROR INTEGER DEFAULT 0; DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR...
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 3, 2009
This is by no means an exhaustive list of new features in DB2 9.7. But, it is the list of features that are most important to me as a DBA or a developer. Online Schema Changes See Burt’s article on Online Schema changes. CGTT – Created Global Temporary...
