Setting up a DB2 database

Set up a DB2® or DB2 Express™ database to work with the Jazz™ Team Server.

This procedure assumes the following prerequisites have been met. Consult your DB2 documentation or a DB2 database administrator (DBA) for help.

Review the DB2 documentation to verify your system meets the requirements and is configured correctly.
DB2 is installed and running on a machine to be used as the database server. This machine can be a different one from that on which the Jazz Team Server runs.
You reviewed Special DB2 instructions.
The user performing these instructions has system admin authority on the DB2 database.
Tip: On Linux®, to get system admin authority on the DB2 database, sudo to the DB2 user db2fenc1 and run bash.

To set up a DB2 database:

Create the database in the DB2 Command Window. The example commands create a new database called JAZZ. These commands run in the DB2 Command Window. The Command Window can be opened from the application Start menu under the DB2 Command Line Tools menu.
- On Windows®:
```
db2 create database JAZZ on c: using codeset UTF-8 territory en
```
- On Linux:
```
db2 create database JAZZ using codeset UTF-8 territory en
```
Note: To ensure proper handling of Unicode content, the database character set must be UTF-8 encoding.

Tip: If the database is not running, the command db2start starts DB2.
Locate the file teamserver.properties in the directory JazzInstallDir/server and rename it to teamserver.derby.properties.
Locate the file teamserver.db2.properties in the directory JazzInstallDir/server and rename it to teamserver.properties.
Specify the database and connection details in the file teamserver.properties.
The default connection specification connects to a DB2 database that runs on localhost on port 50000. On Windows, the database is called JAZZ, and both the user name and password are db2admin. If the default values were used when setting up your database, the teamserver.properties file might already be configured correctly. If not, change this information to match your configuration.
1. Open the file teamserver.properties in a text editor.
2. Locate the following lines:
```
com.ibm.team.repository.db.vendor = DB2
com.ibm.team.repository.db.jdbc.location=//localhost:50000/JAZZ:fullyMaterializeLobData=false;user=db2admin;password={password};
com.ibm.team.repository.db.jdbc.password=db2admin
```
3. Edit the value of com.ibm.team.repository.db.jdbc.location for your DB2 server and database.
  Tip: In the DB2 Command Window, run the command db2 get dbm cfg, then find the line that contains SVCENAME, which indicates the DB2 port name or number. If this command displays a number, use it as the port number (in place of 50000 in the example above). If the command returns a non-numeric name, determine what port number was assigned for this name and use that port number. On Linux, the file /etc/services contains the mapping between port names and numbers, and on Windows, the file C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services contains the mapping. For more information, ask your database administrator or consult the database documentation.
4. Edit the value of com.ibm.team.repository.db.jdbc.location for your DB2 user name.
  Note: The DB2 user must have permissions to create tables, tablespaces, and modify the database configuration. DB2 users are created by the operating system.
5. Specify the user password in the property com.ibm.team.repository.db.jdbc.password.
  Note: Do not change the password={password} text in the com.ibm.team.repository.db.jdbc.location property.
6. If necessary, change the property com.ibm.team.repository.db.db2.content.tablespace.location to a path on your Jazz Team Server where the main tablespace can be created.
  Note: If this value is not changed from the default of content_tablespace, the tablespace is created under the database storage location. On Windows, if a new path is specified, it must be specified by using double backslashes, for example: com.ibm.team.repository.db.db2.content.tablespace.location=c:\\db2\\jazz\\content_tablespace.

You are finished setting up your database. Continue with Creating the Jazz Team Server database tables.

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