Comments on: DB2 on Mac officially released

By: Zafar Nadeem

Zafar Nadeem — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:47:57 +0000

I just installed DB2 Express-C 9.7 and I am having the same error (see below) but in Windows XP. Do you know how can I resolve it?

thanks in advanced.

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Creating database “SAMPLE”…
Attempt to create the database “SAMPLE” failed.
SQL1205N The code page “1208? and/or territory code “0? that has been
specified is not valid.

‘db2sampl’ processing complete.

Any suggestions?

- Johannes

Johannes Fahrenkrug on January 13th, 2009 5:29 am Ok, answered my own question:

Add these two lines to your .profile

export LC_ALL=en_EN.UTF-8
export LANG=en_EN.UTF-8
and then source it. That’s it.

- Johannes

By: Johannes Fahrenkrug

Johannes Fahrenkrug — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:02:47 +0000

I’ve put together my experience installing DB2 for Mac and getting the Radiant CMS up and running on it in this blog post:

http://blog.springenwerk.com/2009/01/ibm-db2-on-mac-with-ruby-rails-and.html

Enjoy!

By: Johannes Fahrenkrug

Johannes Fahrenkrug — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:29:09 +0000

Ok, answered my own question:

Add these two lines to your .profile

export LC_ALL=en_EN.UTF-8
export LANG=en_EN.UTF-8

and then source it. That’s it.

- Johannes

By: Johannes Fahrenkrug

Johannes Fahrenkrug — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:58:57 +0000

Hi!

This is incredible news. I’ve been working with DB2 for years and it’s a great DB. Wonderful to see it on a great OS now
I have an issue though. When I run the db2sampl command, I get this:

Creating database “SAMPLE”…
Attempt to create the database “SAMPLE” failed.
SQL1205N The code page “1208″ and/or territory code “0″ that has been
specified is not valid.

‘db2sampl’ processing complete.

Any suggestions?

- Johannes

By: Torsten Grust

Torsten Grust — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:02:06 +0000

Dear all,

the IBM DB2 on Mac OS X team prepared new download packages. For me, these new packages now work right out of the box — just as advertised by Antonio above.

I’d like to thank the team for their responsiveness and help in resolving this — as it turned out — 32-bit vs. 64-bit library issue.

Best wishes,
–Torsten

By: Torsten Grust

Torsten Grust — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:56:25 +0000

Hi Praveen,

many thanks for your reply. You’re pointing at libicclib.dylib and, indeed, I can find this file only in the sqllib/lib64/icc/icclib directory (note: lib64, not lib32). In fact, there is *no* icc subdirectory below sqllib/lib32…

This coincides with my observation that I can compile/link/run 64-bit CLI applications just fine, but receive ‘Bus Errors’ once I try do the same with a 32-bit application. (Here’s the corresponding posting in the DB2 Express-C forum:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=238971&tstart=0

I dug deep into the db2exc_952beta_MAC_x86_64.tar.gz and db2exc_client_952beta_MAC_x86_64.tar.gz files (and the contained tar archives) and can only find the sqllib/lib64/icc directory and its contents. No sqllib/lib32/icc directory at all.

Hmm…

Many thanks again,
–Torsten

By: Praveen

Praveen — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:27:03 +0000

Hi Torsten,

The bus error might be because the DB2 client is not able to find a required library or might be the ipc resources available on the system is less. Could you check if there is a file named libicclib.dylib present in the directory /sqllib/lib32/icc/icclib. If you are seeing a libicclib.so instead of libicclib.dylib please rename the file to libicclib.dylib. With this you should be able to get going with the ibm_db gem without any problems.

If the files specified above are as required, then you would need to check the ipc resources on your system.

Thanks

Praveen

By: Torsten Grust

Torsten Grust — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:45:31 +0000

Dear all,
I've successfully installed DB2 V9.5 Express-C on my 10.5.6 Mac OS X system. Creation of the SAMPLE database (db2sampl) worked just fine and first tests (SQL queries, ODBC connects) indicate that the DBMS works as it should.
When I follow Antonio's recipe (thanks!) to install the ibm_db gem, however, everythings appears to work OK first. I then stumble quickly, though:

$ irb -rubygems
>> require 'ibm_db.bundle'
=> true
>> conn = IBM_DB.connect("sample","grust","XXX")
(irb):2: [BUG] Bus Error
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03) [universal-darwin9.0]

Abort trap

Has anyone seen similar behavior/problems? I'd appreciate any hint or insight!
Thanks and best wishes for 2009, --Torsten

By: Andruby

Andruby — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:26:07 +0000

Hi. I’ve seen quite a few announcements on DB2 lately. Could anyone point out what the key advantages of DB2 are? Compared to, for example, PostgreSQL.

I maintain a rails frontend app that runs on PostgreSQL which imports data periodically from a DB2 database. I am wondering if changing to DB2 would yield any benefits.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:49:43 +0000

Len, thank you very much for the pointer. I wasn’t aware of RazorSQL, but I will definitely check it out as soon as I get a new Mac.