Thank Mark for the warning.

Yes I am in the habit of stashing a copy of any software I deploy.

Sincerely,

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:38:33 -0400, Michael Lueck wrote:

That's only the default installation. You can load up X (with Gnome,
KDE or whatever) from the Ubuntu repositories if you wish. Not that you
would want to do this if this were an out-and-out database server, but
for a hybrid machine most useful.

Speaking about DB2 on Ubuntu, the one thing which can't be installed
easily is TSA/MP (Tivoli System Automation for Multi-Platforms) : the
cluster management software which you would use to control the full
automation of failure detection and failover in an HADR cluster. It is
totally integrated with DB2 and a utility called db2haicu makes the
configuration and maintenance of the cluster easy. The problem is that
it is still packaged as RPMs, whereas the DB2 software itself moved over
to tarballs a long while ago. In fact the TSA/MP installer even stops
you installing it automatically on anything other than SLES and RHEL
(even CentOS doesn't work with the installer even although the RPMs
install perfectly using the "rpm" command directly).

This isn't a big issue for a free copy of DB2 Express-C, where HADR isn't
licensed, but for any other edition (including the subscription version
of Express where HADR is included) this is a big problem.

I've been asking IBM for a while to address this. Maybe the deal with
Canonical will allow this to be sorted once and for all.

Phil