Comments on: Common pitfalls when installing the ibm_db gem

By: Amos

Amos — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:39:33 +0000

I’m trying to use the gem with derby, but I can’t install the gem without having ibm_db_lib and ibm_db_dir.

Any solutions?

By: Dinshaw

Dinshaw — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:42:34 +0000

I am trying to get running on Win05 connection to an iSeries.

The gem installed fine but i get the “This application has failed to start because DB2CLI.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.”

The machine has the IBM iSeries Access for Windows on it.

Do i need to install the DB2 client to get the .dll?
Should that work with the iSeries?

By: Long

Long — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:22:46 +0000

Thanks for the writeup as it provided me with a good start.

The above steps didn’t fully work for me on Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit, even step 5.

DB2 was install with non-root. I needed to add the include env var to get it working.

export IBM_DB_INCLUDE=/home/db2inst1/sqllib/include

Cheers!