Comments on: Common pitfalls when installing the ibm_db gem

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:26:21 +0000

Hi Tom, may I suggest that you post the details of your problem in the support forum? You can find it here.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:05:51 +0000

I’m getting the same error on Windows Server 2003. Ruby version 1.8.7. I’ve setup the system variables ibm_db_lib and dir but can’t get it to work.

Any ideas on why this is happening on windows 2003 server? (On windows 2000 it works for some reason)

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!