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Did you read the <a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014927797" rel="ugc">Network Access</a> section of the installation guide?<br />
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Access the database via the Terminal application.<br />
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Create the sample database:<br />
&gt;db2sampl<br />
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Start it up (assuming db2inst1 is the db2 user):<br />
&gt;sudo -u db2inst1 db2start<br />
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Test it:<br />
&gt;db2 connect to SAMPLE<br />
&gt;db2 list tables<br />
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YMMV depending on your OS X version. Seems that people have had difficulties installing on recent versions such Mavericks or Yosemite.
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Did you read the Network Access [https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014927797] section of the installation guide?

Access the database via the Terminal application.

Create the sample database:
>db2sampl

Start it up (assuming db2inst1 is the db2 user):
>sudo -u db2inst1 db2start

Test it:
>db2 connect to SAMPLE
>db2 list tables

YMMV depending on your OS X version. Seems that people have had difficulties installing on recent versions such Mavericks or Yosemite.

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I'm reading this ,<br />
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when I tried to create an instance: &nbsp; sudo ./db2icrt -u db2inst1 db2inst1<br />
I got an error: &nbsp;&quot; The host name &quot;server.local&quot; is invalid. Specify a valid host name&quot;<br />
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besides do you need to have a special db2 command interpreter to call &quot;db2 connect&quot; ? &nbsp;Where is this command available ?
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I'm reading this ,

when I tried to create an instance:   sudo ./db2icrt -u db2inst1 db2inst1
I got an error:  " The host name "server.local" is invalid. Specify a valid host name"

besides do you need to have a special db2 command interpreter to call "db2 connect" ?  Where is this command available ?

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I installed db2 express on mac, but how to connect to a remote database, i can't find db2connect command like on windows
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I installed db2 express on mac, but how to connect to a remote database, i can't find db2connect command like on windows

db2 connect on mac

IBM DB2 is a family of relational database server products developed by IBM that have been extended to support object-relational features and non-relational structures like JSON and XML. There are three main products in the DB2 family: DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (informally known as DB2 LUW), DB2 for z/OS (mainframe), and DB2 for i (formerly OS/400), plus a version for IBM's Virtual Storage Extended (VSE) operating system.