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I have found the DB2/UDB implentation of locks a little more hard to
deal with than Oracle's locking.
First I realize there is lock escalation.
But it would help me if somebody loudly thought out their answers to

Anyone -
Can anybody tell me where I would find the linux status codes for such
udb utilities as backup, etc.?
For instance, in my cron job I have:

Hi just wondering where i can see the maximum amount of open cursors
allowed at one time?  I am using DB2 UDB for Windows
8.1.5.
Thanks..

I changed a varchar(255) to varchar(3000) an started receiving:
Warning: odbc_exec(): SQL error: [IBM][CLI Driver][DB2/LINUX] SQL1585N A
system temporary table space with sufficient page size does not exist.
SQLSTATE=54048 , SQL state 54048 in SQLExecDirect in

Folks,
What are the major differences (besides price) between Workgroup server
and Enterprise Server Edition (ESE)?
Thanks.

Hi folks, I tried to install the WM today and got into a nasty muddle
with version errors. Because I was using FP9 on the UDB installation,
it failed as part of the agent installation with the file vwd.exe. I
managed to get around that by re-applying the fixpak after I had

We are haveing 4 DB's in our company, and presently we used to take
offline backup on once in a week, we knew we cant recover last-in-time
data. But we would like to shift to some new technique which saves
time, sapce & last-in-time recover. we heard about the online backups

SQL ref Vol. 1, page 102 gives 4 (or 5) different formats with their
names and abbreviations. Unfortunately, I see no mention of where to
specify the name or abbreviation to get the one I want. This must be
terribly obvious to those of you who have done, but I'm at a loss.

I am trying to setup an ODBC / JDBC connection to my tables in DB2 for z/OS.
I am running a job called DSNTIJMS and it does not find the database
DSNATPDB, certain procedures sysibm.sql* and the tables sysibm.sqt*. Do I
need to install something in DB2 prior to running this job, ...

DB2 WSE 8.1 FP5
Red Hat Linux AS 2.1
I am working on a Java-Swing based interface for a DB2 database,
and want to display more human-readable error meesages to the

The latest UDB DB2 PDE V8.2.2 (posted 4/22/05) for linux that is
available for download as tar file (all editions), have invalid tar
format (I guess I should have taken quality issues raised on this group
about latest UDB versions more seriously!). Anyways, can anyone provide

There doesn't seem to be consensus about when to put code in the
database or in the middle tier. There was a long discussion about this
in an Oracle newsgroup (message ID:
ULcQb.466$KU5.37@nwrddc02.gnilink.net).

as the title says: trying to install PE on gentoo (2.6.11-r7).
ends with : "Installing DB2 file sets:......Failure"
the error log file (/tmp/db2setup.err) is empty.
any clues what's going on there?

Folks -
Linux RH3, UDB 8.2 FP9.
I've got two tiny test boxes that I'm setting up to get a simple HADR
configuration built.  When I start the primary I get the famous SQL1768