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GoldenGate DB2 z/OS upgrade checklist

Upgrading GoldenGate when the source is DB2 for z/OS is not quite the same exercise as upgrading a GoldenGate installation for Oracle. Most of what I described in my generic blogs about planning a GoldenGate(…)

DB2 SQL1598N licensing error when upgrading GoldenGate

While upgrading GoldenGate to 26ai for a DB2 z/OS source, I had to update the IBM Data Server Driver for ODBC and CLI (CLI Driver, in short) alongside it. Since I realized that DB2 driver(…)

Deployment creation INS-85037 error with GoldenGate 26ai for DB2 z/OS

Among all the automation I was doing around a GoldenGate installation for DB2, I recently ended up with an INS-85037 error when running the configuration assistant oggca.sh. And because this error is quite common and has many different possible(…)

Setting up IBM Db2 on Linux – root installation

In the first post about Db2 I went for the non-root installation method. While this is great if you want to get started fast and to do some tests this also comes with(…)

Setting up IBM Db2 on Linux

My last contact with IBM Db2 was more than 10 years ago, and that only on the SQL/application level. I've never done an installation of Db2 as most of our customers either don't use it, or we(…)