Friday, October 10, 2008

Fixpack upgrades on V9.5

Starting from V9.5 db2iupdt is automated after fixpack install.Also the binding of packages happen during the first connection after the upgrade.But the major change that I observed is with alternative fixpacks.Consider a situation where you have 2 instances serving two different applications on a server.If you want to maintain one instance at V9.5 fixpack0 and the other at V9.5 fixpack2 you got to follow a new strategy from now on.You have to use db2_install and not InstallfixPack to accomplish this.Let the two instances be db2inst1 and db2inst2 (both at V9.5 fixpack0).You want to upgrade only db2inst2 to fixpack2.The command to be used in this case will be some thing like ./db2_install -b /opt/ibm/db2/V9.5/fixpack2.And after the install cd to /opt/ibm/db2/V9.5/fixpack2/instance and do a db2iupdt for db2inst2.