Re: [possibly OT]: anyone attempt running IBm DB2 for Linux, under emulation on FreeBSD

2003-10-16 Thread Matthew Bettinger 
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:58:15 +
Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 They have recently bought into an application software which
 requires IBM's DB2 database back-end; it has been proposed that
 they install a second server running linux explicitly for the
 purpose of running IBM's DB2 for Linux. The key question now
 being
 

'Will IBM support DB2 running on FreeBSD'  
The only experience I have with IBM is Unidata... and I doubt you
would get any support for DB2 on bsd.  Not related in any means
however I'd never install somehting like that without knowing it
would be supported by the vendor.

Something to think about.  ;-)

re,

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Re: [possibly OT]: anyone attempt running IBm DB2 for Linux, under emulation on FreeBSD

2003-10-16 Thread Phil Cryer 
Quoting Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
 Can someone run IBm's DB2 for Linux, on a FreeBSD box? If so, will it 
 maintain stability even if at the loss of some performance versus running it
 
 on an actual Linux box? Does anyone have any experience with this, and/or has
 
 anyone out there tried this themselves yet? I have heard numerous success 
 stories running Oracle for Linux under FreeBSD... but have thus far been 
 unable to find anyone trying IBM DB2 with FreeBSD.

While not completely related, I have been running DB2 at work for a test
database running on Gentoo Linux.  Since Gentoo is not an RPM based system (DB2
is only distributed as RPMs I believe) I had to install RPM, but after that,
this doc walked me through getting it installed:
http://kjeldahl.net/db2/

So, the point being, is that DB2 *can* work on non-RPM systems.  For FreeBSD,
you'd need to install RPM:
$ whereis rpm
rpm: /usr/ports/archivers/rpm

..and try to follow some of the above instructions.  With the Linux capabilties
installed, I'd think it might work.  I'm still Goggling your query myself

It looks like someone has successfully installed the DB2client on FreeBSD (they
installed on a Linux box, and moved the files over)
http://www.khmere.com/resume/bsd_db2.html

Also, this page seems to infer that it's been done, but the link to BSD Today
takes you to serverwatch.com, and I can't find the article there.
http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1289

Here an IBM'r comments on the viability:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-March/000533.html

If I were you, I'd post this question to:
http://www.idug.org/idug/db2/listserver.cfm

Regards
P

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