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DB2 - is it possible to create database on remote node?

Hi.

Our installer is run shell scripts with following commands:

DB2 CREATE DATABASE %DbName% ON %DbDisk% USING CODESET UTF-8 TERRITORY US 
DB2 CONNECT TO %DbName% USER %DbUser% USING %DbPassword% 

DB2 CREATE BUFFERPOOL BufferR2010 ALL NODES SIZE 200 PAGESIZE 8192 

DB2 CREATE REGULAR TABLESPACE REMxxx PAGESIZE 8192 MANAGED BY SYSTEM USING ('C:\db2\RemXxx\') EXTENTSIZE 256 PREFETCHSIZE 32 BUFFERPOOL BufferR2010

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And that works fine when DB2 Server is installed on the same compute where we installing our product.

But now we got a new life-pushed requirement - we need to create DB2 database on remote node (not on the current computer!).

Do you know - if that is possible at all?

Note: target DB2 versions are 9.x and 10.x.

Please also note: I had already tried approach described here - it does not work. It is able to catalog node, attach node - that is works ok, but the "create database xxx" command is always creating database on local node (not on the remote/attached one). :-\

Regards,
Dmitry.

Kent Olsen

Hi Dmitry,

You should be able to create the database as long as you create a connection to the instance first.

Using the Command Line Interface,:

db2
db2> Connect to {database on the desired server}
db2> Create database command
db2>quit

That should do the trick.

Good Luck,
Kent

Dmitry_Bond

ASKER

No, for sure that will not work!
Because it is technically impossible to execute the "Connect to {database on the desired server}" if database is not exists.

Kent Olsen

Does any database on that server exist?

You don't need to actually use a database on the server, just connect to something that's on the instance.

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mustaccio

The CREATE DB syntax is different for DB2 8 and 9.x

Kent Olsen

Hi Dmitry,

Can you post what you found? It could be helpful to others.

Thanks,
Kent

Dmitry_Bond

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It is already posted in one of messages:

db2 catalog tcpip node %DbNodeName% remote %DbNodeAddress% server 50000
db2 terminate
db2 list node directory 
db2 attach to %DbNodeName% user %dbUser% using %dbPassword%
db2 create database remtDb

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And - for DB2 v8 it does not work. It works only for DB2 v9 or higher.
One of databases I was tried to do was DB2 v8.x, so that is why this question appears at all.

Kent Olsen

Cool. Thanks.

I wasn't sure that that was your final solution.

Kent

Dmitry_Bond

ASKER

Actually I found solution by myself. But guys a bit helped me with comments.