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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
Top comments (2)
Very nice. Got DB2 Community up and running using Ubuntu 24.0.4. Time to build some tables and load some data. Then use it in COBOL. More than 17 years since I did that back on mainframes and Microsofucs COBOL. This time around gnuCOBOL. Should be fun and this time I am the DBA.
thanks