IBM manual Creating a response file from the sample response file, 52 DB2 Deployment Guide

The configuration profile file can also be generated on its own through the Connectivity Configuration Export (db2cfexp) tool command.

If the response file was not created using the db2rspgn tool and if you wish to include a database profile in your deployment, generate the DB2 profile using the db2cfexp tool and include the DB2.CLIENT_IMPORT_PROFILE keyword with the configuration profile name.

Creating a response file from the sample response file

In additional to the DB2 Setup wizard and db2rspgn on Windows, you also can generate a response file using the sample response files contained in the DB2 installation image.

For UNIX and Linux, the sample response files are under the path, db2/<platform>/samples/. There are multiple sample files corresponding to various products. For instance, db2ese.rsp corresponds to the DB2 Enterprise Server Edition, and db2wse.rsp corresponds to the DB2 Workgroup Server Edition.

The following steps demonstrate how to manually create a response file from the sample file for the DB2 Enterprise Server Edition (on Linux) and perform an unattended installation:

1.Locate the sample response file:

As our platform is a Linux x86_64 system, we locate the sample file named db2ese.rsp in db2/linuxamd64/samples path and copy it to a working directory. Here we create a temporary folder db2rsp under /tmp.

#mkdir -p /tmp/db2rsp

#cd /tmp/db2rsp

#cp /software/V95/ese/db2/linuxamd64/samples/db2ese.rsp .

2.Decide what components to deploy:

Contained in the sample file are explanatory paragraphs for each keyword to help you understand its meaning and determine if it is necessary for your deployment. To enable an item or include a component in the deployment, just remove the asterisk (*) left of the keyword.

There is a complete reference list containing components that are available in the installation image. Check the file db2/linuxamd64/ComponentList.htm, where you can find the detailed information for each component, for example, component name, tar file name, installed size, and component response file ID. Open it with a Web browser, and then select the required component and add it to the response file if it is not included.

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