Monday, June 27, 2011

Establishing remote connection to DB2 Server


To be able to use db2 connect from client, there are few configuration steps to be followed as mentioned here:

on DB2 Server

db2set DB2COMM=tcpip
update database manager configuration using svcename 50000
db2stop
db2start

on Client Side

db2 UNCATALOG DATABASE db_name
db2 UNCATALOG DCS DATABASE db_name
db2 UNCATALOG NODE server_name
db2 CATALOG TCPIP NODE server_name REMOTE server_name SERVER 50000 REMOTE_INSTANCE DB2 SYSTEM server_name OSTYPE AIX
db2 CATALOG DCS DATABASE db_name AS db_name
db2 CATALOG DATABASE db_name AS db_name AT NODE server_name AUTHENTICATION DCS 


$ db2 connect to db_name user user_name using password

   Database Connection Information

 Database server        = DB2/AIX64 9.1.6
 SQL authorization ID   = user_name
 Local database alias   = db_name

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