db2express-c v11.1

db2express-c V11.1 resources to build DB2 express-c image.

Build the db2express-c image

Download the db2express-c v11.1 package for linux from IBM website(v11.1_linuxx64_expc.tar.gz) and copy it into the db2express-c directory

Create the db2data volume that hold the data for the db2inst1 instance :

docker volume create db2data

cd into db2express-c directory

Launch the image build, take a look at the Dockerfile :

./build.sh 

Once the build is done and no major error happens, you can run the container :

At Build time, there is actually no way to set the IPC option with the docker build command so at the end of the installation db2start do nothing and end with a SQL Error but the installation ends with a exit code 0

./db2start.sh

Now you can create database and do want you want, DB2 is alive, ALIVE !

To connect to the running container, you can use :

./bash.sh

Check the logs, it come from the tail -F db2diag.log into the entrypoint.sh

docker logs -f db2