| Overview The original DB2 license shipped with the WebSphere Portal V6.1 physical CDs will expire after 90 days. Updated installation images are available from Passport Advantage which contain a DB2 license which does not expire. To prevent the license from expiring, an updated installation image should be downloaded from Passport Advantage and the existing DB2 license with a 90-day expiration should be replaced with the correct DB2 license.
NOTE: This does not affect the electronic installation images downloaded from Passport Advantage, only the physical CDs shipped with WebSphere Portal V6.1.
Problem Determination: Troubleshooting if the License is Currently Expired
While the WebSphere Portal server is running, or, during a startup of the portal system, the following messages could be observed in the SystemOut.log file, indicating a datasource problem:
[2/23/09 8:41:36:074 CST] 00000016 SchedulerImpl E SCHD0124E: Unable to initialize wps/Scheduler due to error: com.ibm.ws.extensionhelper.exception.UnableToInitializeException: com.ibm.websphere.ce.cm.StaleConnectionException: [ibm][db2][jcc][t4][2043][11550] Exception java.net.ConnectException: Error opening socket to server hostname.databaseserver.com/10.1.2.3 on port 50,001 with message: Connection refused.DSRA0010E: SQL State = null, Error Code = -4,499
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
Problem Determination: Checking if the DB2 License Will Expire 1) Log into the database server.
2) Navigate to the /db2/V9.1/adm directory
3) Run the command "db2licm -l"
A screenshot below details a DB2 v9.1 install from a physical CD titled ""WebSphere Portal V6.1 and Lotus Web Content Management V6.1 - DB2 UDB Restricted Enterprise Server Edition for Linux on x86 32-bit, V9.1 FP4 (IL-11) Multilingual". The DB2 license type can be observed as a "trial" license expiring 90 days after the DB2 software was installed (in this example, on 10/01/2008).
Resolution: Updating the DB2 License
1) Download the updated DB2 v9.1 image from Passport Advantage to your database server. Extract the archived image to a temporary location (in this example, the updated image was stored in the /downloadedimage/IL-11 directory).
2) Navigate to the installed /db2/V9.1/adm directory
3) Run the command "db2licm -a /downloadedimage/IL-11/ese/disk1/db2/license/db2ese_o.lic", replacing the initial directory path with the temporary directory where the installation image was extracted.
4) Run the command "db2licm -l". Observe the license type is now "restricted" and the expiry date "permanent".
5) If the portal server is currently running and non-functional, restart the portal server.
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