January is already gone and that means about 8% of this year too. last few days have been hectic because of DB2 intall. Right now we are running on oracle but the instruction from management is to port our application to DB2. I never had a chance to play with DB2 before. Right now, we are not interested in performance and tuning , we just want to port our oracle tables and procedures over to DB2 as quickly as possible.
The install is supposed to be easy and i guess it should have been like that. But we had some issues with hostname resolution on our open SUSE box. Due to that hostname issue, we were not able to create DB2 instances. That issue is now resolved. However , I noticed two things about DB2 documentation. There is documentation and lot of documentation , so much so in fact that your search token will become that proverbial "needle in haystack". Second thing is , all the errors reported by DB2 are way too generic. They wont be of much help in troubleshooting.
Maybe I need to read it from cover to cover. But you know how it is when you are starting with a new software. You want to get quickly on your feet and start your work straight-away. It is hard to believe that I spent 4 days to get the DB up and running. time to RTFM.
