Registering the DB2 license key
The IBM® DB2® Enterprise Server Edition, Version 10.1 license
key must be registered using the db2licm command.
About this task
The DB2 product uses the license key information that is contained in the nodelock file, which is created or updated by running the db2licm command and specifying the license file for the DB2 product. To register the license key, you must run the db2licm command on each computer where DB2 is installed.
To
manually register your DB2 product
license key using root authority:
- Log in as a user with root authority.
- Register the DB2 product
license key with the appropriate command:
- /usr/opt/db2_08_01/adm/db2licm -a filename on AIX®
- /opt/IBM/db2/V8.1/adm/db2licm -a filename for all other UNIX-based operating systems
After running
the db2licm command, the DB2 product
license key information is contained in the nodelock file in the following
directories:
- AIX: /var/ifor.
- HP-UX, Linux, or Solaris Operating Environment: /var/lum.
- Windows: DB2PATH/sqllib/license.
Procedure
To register your DB2 product license key as the instance owner: