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Table of Contents
1.2 What do you need to understand this book 3
3 Upgrading from previous versions 5
3.1 The SQL Script upgrade-from-... 5
3.2 The SQL Script migrate-from-... 5
3.3 The SQL Script drop-from-... 5
3.4 The SQL Script dbcreate-views.sql 6
3.5 The SQL Script dbcreate-indexes.sql 6
List of Figures
Figure 1: Create a new database 7
Figure 2: Create schema CRX_CRX 8
Figure 3: Specify Storage options 8
Figure 4: Specify Region options 9
Figure 5: Verify settings 10
Figure 6: Create New User – step 1 10
Figure 7: Create New User – step 2 11
Figure 8: Open Command Editor 12
Figure 9: Execute script dbcreate-tables.sql 13
Figure 10: Verify creation of tables, views, and indexes 14
List of Listings
Listing 1: Creating Buffer Pools and Table Spaces with 32K Page Size 11
This book describes how to setup an openCRX database instance for IBM DB2.
The intended audience are openCRX database administrators.
This book describes the installation of openCRX for IBM DB2. The book assumes that you are familiar with DB2 installation and configuration.
We make use the following pictograms:
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Information provided as a “Tip” might be helpful for various reasons: time savings, risk reduction, etc. |
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You should carefully read information marked with “Important”. Ignoring such information is typically not a good idea. |
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Warnings should not be ignored (risk of data loss, etc.) |
As a first step you must download the following software packages:
Download and install openCRX
SDK Installer. It is available from
http://www.opencrx.org/sdk.htm
The SDK contains DB2 scripts required to install the openCRX
database in the directory
<SDK_Install_Dir>\opencrx-x.x.x\core\src\sql
Download DB2 Express-C data server from http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/download.html
Download DB2 Data Server Driver for JDBC
and SQLJ from
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/download.html
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Please ensure that you install the correct JDBC driver (i.e. matching JDK, DB2 version, etc.) and one JDBC driver only! Ignoring this wisdom leads to problems as the connection to the database will fail. |
As a next step you must install IBM DB2 (please refer to the appropriate documentation from IBM for installation details).
This document assumes that you use the DB2 Control Center for database administration.
If you already have DB2 for openCRX installed, upgrade the database as explained below. You can then skip the rest of this document.
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Backup your database BEFORE you run any of the following scripts! |
In a first step you must upgrade your database. openCRX distributions provide an SQL script of the form
upgrade-from-<version from>-to-<version to>.sql
If you have installed openCRX 1.11.0, for example, and you want to upgrade to version 2.0.0 you have to run the script upgrade-from-1.11.0-to-2.0.0.sql on your database instance.
In a second step you must migrate your database. openCRX distributions often times provide an SQL script of the form
migrate-from-<version from>-to-<version to>.sql
If you have installed openCRX 1.11.0, for example, and you want to upgrade to version 2.0.0 you have to run the script upgrade-from-1.11.0-to-2.0.0.sql on your database instance.
Next you can drop unused tables from your database. openCRX distributions often times provide an SQL script of the form
drop-from-<version from>-to-<version to>.sql
If you have installed openCRX 1.11.0, for example, and you want to drop tables not used by openCRX 2.0.0 you can run the script drop-from-1.11.0-to-2.0.0.sql on your database instance. Alternatively, you can also rename such tables, e.g. from transition_type to _unused_transition_type. Also, it goes without saying that you should never drop a table before you made a backup!
Most new openCRX versions make use of new/changed views, i.e. if an openCRX distribution includes an SQL script of the form
dbcreate-views.sql
then you must run that script. If you have installed openCRX 1.11.0, for example, and you want to upgrade to openCRX 2.0.0 you should run the script dbcreate-views.sql on your database instance. Make sure that old views are indeed dropped and new views properly created.
Most new openCRX versions make use of new/changed indexes, i.e. if an openCRX distribution includes an SQL script of the form
dbcreate-indexes.sql
then you should run that script. If you have installed openCRX 1.11.0, for example, and you want to upgrade to openCRX 2.00.0 you should run the script dbcreate-indexes.sql on your database instance.
The last step involves deleting old preferences and populating the table with new ones. Run the SQL script populate-preferences.sql to do this.
As a first step you must create the database. This can be done with the DB2 Control Center. Start the Control Center and navigate to the appropriate instance and select Databases. Right-click and select Create Database from the pop-up menu as shown below:

Figure 1: Create a new database
Enter CRX_CRX as database name and select 32K as page size (experienced DB2 DBAs might want to create multiple table spaces for optimization reasons). Click Next:

Figure 2: Create schema CRX_CRX
Specify storage options (if any) and click Next:

Figure 3: Specify Storage options
Specify Region options (we strongly recommend the UTF-8 code set):
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Figure 4: Specify Region options
Verify the settings and then click Finish:

Figure 5: Verify settings
Next we need to create a new user. Navigate to the newly created database and look for the entry User and Group Objects. Right-click the subentry DB Users and then select Add from the pop-up menu as shown below:

Figure 6: Create New User – step 1
Enter SYSTEM and select the appropriate authorities (the user must be able to connect to the database!):

Figure 7: Create New User – step 2
Please note that passwords are managed by the operation system.
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In case you did not select page size 32K when you initially created the database, you may want to create a Buffer Pool BP32K (Page Size of 32K) and 2 Table Spaces CRXTS32 and CRXTMPSPC32 a as follows (default Table Spaces rely on 4K page sizes, insufficient for openCRX): Listing 1: Creating Buffer Pools and Table Spaces with 32K Page Size CREATE BUFFERPOOL BP32K IMMEDIATE SIZE
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You have completed creating the database CRX_CRX.
After creating the schema you are now ready to install the openCRX database schema objects. The following scripts must be executed in the order given below:
dbcreate-tables.sql
dbcreate-views.sql
dbcreate-indexes.sql
populate-preferences.sql
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Navigate to the newly created database. Right-click on it and then select Query from the pop-up menu to open a command editor as shown below:

Figure 8: Open Command Editor
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You may want to create Buffer Pool(s) and Table Space(s) of a larger size (e.g. 32K) than the default size of 8K as some openCRX tables have large column sizes (see Listing 1: Creating Buffer Pools and Table Spaces with 32K Page Size for information on how to do that). Otherwise you will receive error messages running the script dbcreate-tables.sql similar to the one below: DB21034E
The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not
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Copy/paste the database script dbcreate-tables.sql and execute by clicking on the button Execute:
Figure 9: Execute script dbcreate-tables.sql
Similarly, execute the remaining scripts in the following order:
dbcreate-views.sql
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You may want to create Buffer Pool(s) and Table Space(s) of a larger size (e.g. 32K) than the default size of 8K as some openCRX views have large column sizes (see Listing 1: Creating Buffer Pools and Table Spaces with 32K Page Size for information on how to do that). Otherwise you will receive error messages running the script dbcreate-views.sql similar to the one below:: DB21034E
The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was
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dbcreate-indexes.sql (hint: you can ignore error messages of the following sort: Duplicate key name 'xxx' Error 1061).
populate-preferences.sql
The scripts should run without errors and after execution you should be able to inspect all the newly created tables, views, and indexes:

Figure 10: Verify creation of tables, views, and indexes
If you have completed successfully the database installation you are ready to use the openCRX database CRX_CRX. The application server installation guides explain how to connect the application server to the openCRX database instance.
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