In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the step-by-step process of installing IBM Db2 Community Edition on an Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance.
IBM Db2 Community Edition is a cloud-native database designed to deliver low-latency transactions and high resilience for both structured and unstructured data.
Db2 Community Edition offers a comprehensive feature set, including core Db2 functionalities.
Security is a top priority with Db2 Community Edition, featuring always-on security measures to protect your data.
The tutorial covers everything from setting up the EC2 instance to configuring Db2 and creating your first database.
Prerequisites include setting up an EC2 instance of type t2.medium, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as AMI, and open ports 22 for SSH and 25000 for Db2.
To install Db2, copy the downloaded latest version to EC2 instance, extract it, check the prerequisite requirements with db2prereqcheck, install the required packages, and run db2_install command.
Post-installation steps include creating groups and users for DB administrators and fenced users, creating a Db2 instance using the db2icrt command, starting the database instance, and creating a test database.
Finally, connect to the database using the connect command and create a table.
Overall, this tutorial provides an in-depth guide to installing and working with IBM Db2 Community Edition on Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance.