Comments on: Install DB2 on Mac OS X and give us feedback

By: Hugo Munoz

Hugo Munoz — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:10:16 +0000

I’m trying to install db2 on my Mac, I run “./db2setup” and displays the following message:
“sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence
DBI1058E gunzip command not found
explanation:
The gunzip utility must be available on your system to install or update db2 product
User response:
Ensure the gunzip utility is installed in the PATH environment variable. Reenter the command ”

How can I fix this, appreciate your help.

By: boris_yurkevich

boris_yurkevich — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:21:57 +0000

Mtn Lion it worked but DB2 don’t feel good on Java 1.7.

By: frabber

frabber — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:46:41 +0000

Is there any work done on porting datastudio to mac os x? I am still running this off a linux vm..

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:54:35 +0000

Thank you for the video on installing DB2 on Mac. I could not get it to work until watching your video. Now that it seems to be working the next step is to connect to a database on a different server. I have read about configuration manager but cannot find that on my mac…

May I use the DB2 Client for Mac to connect to DB2 databases on other servers? If so, how do I do that?

Thanks for your help,

Brian

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:22:59 +0000

Hi Daniel

I have the same problem on OSX 10.6.8

I fixed it creating a symlink to the OSX Java home and now db2fs works.

ln -s /Library/Java/Home ~/sqllib/java/jdk64/jre

Regards

Roberto

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:54:41 +0000

Sorry.. typo..

my Java is located in /Library/Java/Home/bin/java

Daniel.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:52:27 +0000

Hi Antonio,

Great blog.

I seem to be running into Stefan’s problem above (your reply 23 Mar 10:13). My OS is OS X 10.6. I have run (per your suggestion):

db2 update dbm cfg using JDK_PATH /Library/Java/Home

but I get this error when running db2fs:

sh: /Library/Java/Home/jre/bin/java: No such file or directory DB2JAVIT : RC = 127

The problem is that my Java is located in /Library/Java/Home/jre/bin/java (i.e. I don’t have the ‘jre’ bit).

How could I correct that?

Thanks,

Daniel.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:06:01 +0000

Hi, db2 is up and running … 🙂

Now I tried to install DBD::DB2 for perl DBI (DBI already installed).

As I have to sudo cpan, db2_home etc is not defined.

Did s.o. get DBD::DB2 running on Mac OS X ?

regards Stefan

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:13:55 +0000

In reply to Stefan. Hi Stefan, try the following:

db2 get dbm cfg |grep JDK

If it's not pointing in the right place, you can set it with:

db2 update dbm cfg using JDK_PATH your/jdk/path

For example, mine is set for:

/Users/db2inst1/sqllib/java/jdk64

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:01:53 +0000

In reply to Antonio Cangiano. java is in /usr/bin/java . dont know why db2 does not recognize that