Start a db2 instance as daemon

Just because I always have problem with db2 autostart I’ve decided to use this simply, fast and flexible script:


#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          IBM-Db2-db2inst1
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog sshd
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog sshd
# Default-Start:     3 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start/stop IBM DB2 instance
### END INIT INFO
#
# IBM Db2 : This init.d script starts the db2inst1 instance

NAME=`basename $0`

instance_User=db2inst1



start() {
    echo -n $"Starting ${NAME} service: "
       $tds_start ; > /dev/null
	   su - $instance_User -c "db2start"  
    ret=$? 
    if [ $ret -eq 0 ]
    then
            echo "${NAME} Started."
    else
            echo "${NAME} Starting Failed!"
            exit 1
    fi
    echo
}

stop() {
    echo -n $"Starting ${NAME} service: "
       $tds_start ; > /dev/null
	   su - $instance_User -c "db2stop"  
    ret=$? 
    if [ $ret -eq 0 ]
    then
            echo "${NAME} Started."
    else
            echo "${NAME} Starting Failed!"
            exit 1
    fi
    echo
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        start
        ;;
    stop)
        stop
        ;;		
    *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
        exit 1
esac
exit 0

Db2 set online logs and enable autodelete for logs and backup

A simple script to set logs for online backup :

 


#!/bin/sh

#First of all create archive logs dir in the home path of the instance owner.
mkdir -p /$HOME/archiveLog

#Change log settings.
db2 UPDATE DB CFG FOR $1 USING logarchmeth1 "DISK:/data/archiveLog" logprimary 15 logsecond 15 logfilsiz 8000

#Backup Db.
db2 BACKUP DATABASE $1 TO "/backup/db2";

#Update log and backup retention (I set to 2).
db2 update db cfg for $1 using rec_his_retentn 2

#Enable auto delete.
db2 update db cfg for $1 using auto_del_rec_obj on

#I setup backup to maintain the last 2 backup.
db2 update db cfg for $1 using num_db_backups 2

You can copy and paste in a script named “setLogs” give grant and run by instance owner:

./setLogs DatabaseName