COBOL Tutorial Series: Install the DB2 on Windows/Linux - Session 6

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IBM DB2 is a family of data management products, including database servers, developed by IBM. It provides a relational database management system (RDBMS) that supports both structured and unstructured data. DB2 is designed to handle large volumes of data and offers features like high availability, scalability, and advanced data security.

Today I will show you how to install the DB2 Community Edition Docker image on Linux systems

1.Download Docker Desktop for Ubuntu here

2.Install Docker Desktop on Ubuntu here

3.Pull the DB2 image

sudo docker pull icr.io/db2_community/db2 

4.Create an environment variables file: vi .env_list

LICENSE=accept DB2INSTANCE=db2inst1 DB2INST1_PASSWORD=password DBNAME=testdb BLU=false ENABLE_ORACLE_COMPATIBILITY=false UPDATEAVAIL=NO TO_CREATE_SAMPLEDB=false REPODB=false IS_OSXFS=false PERSISTENT_HOME=true HADR_ENABLED=false ETCD_ENDPOINT= ETCD_USERNAME= ETCD_PASSWORD= 

5.Create and run the container

sudo docker run -h db2server --name db2server --restart=always --detach --privileged=true -p 50000:50000 --env-file .env_list -v /Docker:/database icr.io/db2_community/db2 

Tada, you can use the Db2Client or DBeaver to connect it right now