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DB2 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

By Antonio Cangiano. Filed under DB2, Mac 

Earlier today I headed over to the local Apple Store to purchase a copy of Snow Leopard, the newest version of Apple’s operating system. There was a decent line up, as I expected. Not the kind of line up you’d encounter with the launch of a new iPhone, but it was fairly busy for a Friday morning. When I arrived, I took my place at the end of the queue where rumors were swirling around about the store having sold out of single copies of Snow Leopard in its first hour. Luckily, that was just a rumor as I suspected, and they still had a few copies left. So I got my copy for $39.99 (CND) including taxes and left.

The installation was pretty much automatic and took roughly an hour. No versions to select from, no serial numbers to insert, no online activations, and a price that “keeps honest people honest”. Yes, it’s just an update, but $25 (US) for an improved operating system is definitely a fair price. Microsoft are you listening? My first impression is that Snow Leopard is a very polished version of Leopard and it’s darn fast. Well done Apple.

DB2 users may be wondering if it is safe to install this version of Mac OS X 10.6 or if their existing installation will go awry. I’m happy to report that DB2 Express-C 9.5 FixPack 2 for Mac works fine on Snow Leopard. Both pre-existing installations and brand new installations of DB2 work properly, I can attest to that. So install away my friends!

Installing DB2 on Snow Leopard

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13 Responses to “DB2 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard”

  1. Leon Katsnelson on August 28th, 2009 3:27 pm

    Antonio, awesome as usual. I think a lot of people will be glad to hear that DB2 works on the latest version of Mac OS.

    Leon Katsnelson
    http://FreeDB2.com

  2. Barry on August 28th, 2009 3:47 pm

    Thanks for doing this Anthony. I finished upgrading my laptop and Mac Pro, and all is well. *happy face*

  3. Stéphane J on August 28th, 2009 9:47 pm

    Thanks for the test :)

  4. Shawn on August 29th, 2009 12:31 am

    It doesn’t work for me after the upgrade. When running db2start I get this..

    SQL5043N Support for one or more communications protocols failed to start successfully. However, core database manager functionality started successfully.

  5. Antonio Cangiano on August 29th, 2009 5:48 am

    Hi Shawn,

    that’s definitely odd, I didn’t experience any issues.

    - Did you get the error when issuing ’sudo db2start’?
    - Is your pre-existing installation installed as root or as your regular user?
    - Do you still have a /etc/sysctl.conf file?

    Thanks in advance,
    Antonio

  6. Yair on August 31st, 2009 12:01 am

    Hi,

    I’m having the same problem as Shawn. Getting a SQL5043N error. I have /etc/sysctl.conf and it looks fine…

    Thanks,
    Yair

  7. Yair on August 31st, 2009 12:15 am

    Sorry about the mess, just wanted to update that I solved the problem. Seems that the upgrade backs up the /etc/services file into services~previous, and creates a new one without the line for the db2 service. You need to find the line in the old /etc/services that has the service definition for db2 and add it back to the new /etc/services, then run db2stop and db2start.

    Cheers

  8. Ahmed on October 9th, 2009 3:22 am

    Hello,
    I have got a new MacBook Pro. I want to install Oracle into it. The only problem I have is that I can’t find sysctl.conf file. I have done “find” search but no effect. Does anybody know how to fix that problem?

  9. Antonio Cangiano on October 9th, 2009 7:37 am

    Ahmed, I assume that you mean DB2, but either way, just create the file /etc/sysctl.conf file if it doesn’t exist.

  10. Michael Walker on October 9th, 2009 5:43 pm

    Sigh,

    I am having trouble getting any browser to play nicely with db2fs. When I try with Firefox 3.5.3, Mac OS throws up a “firefox-bin quit unexpectedly” dialog and db2fs pops up a “DBI1435E” dialog (says it can’t find supported browser).

    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3

    Any ideas as to what is going wrong?

    Thanks,
    Michael

  11. Bill M on October 28th, 2009 11:57 am

    The above link to the fixpack leads me to the general download of xpress-C, but I can find no download for the fixpack, just the one for Leopard. Can you tell me how I can get to this fixpack download?

  12. Balazs on November 23rd, 2009 6:36 pm

    Michael, you can use db2fs with Firefox 2. Since it is unmaintained, it is best to save it under a separate tree, not under Applications, that way you won’t accidentally launch it and use it.

  13. Giancarlo on December 15th, 2009 12:14 pm

    I have the DBI1435E” dialog (says it can’t find supported browser) too and I used several browsers.
    Any solution.
    Using Snow Leopard…

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