Optional: Preparing to connect Db2 Big SQL to an IBM Storage Scale object store

If you are planning to connect Db2 Big SQL to an IBM Storage Scale object store, you must update the Db2 Big SQL service custom resource before you provision a Db2 Big SQL instance.

About this task

Best practice: You can run the commands in this task exactly as written if you set up environment variables. For instructions, see Setting up installation environment variables.

Ensure that you source the environment variables before you run the commands in this task.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform as an instance administrator. 
    ${OC_LOGIN}
    Remember: OC_LOGIN is an alias for the oc login command.
  2. Change to the project where the Cloud Pak for Data control plane is installed: 
    oc project ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS}
  3. Update the Db2 Big SQL service custom resource to enable the switch to bypass cloud object store validation: 
    oc patch bigsqlservice bigsql-service-cr --patch '{"spec":{"service_provider_bypass_cos_validation":true}}' --type merge
  4. Wait approximately 5 minutes for the bigsql-service-provider pod to restart.

What to do next

Create service instances, and then configure Db2 Big SQL to connect to an IBM Storage Scale object store.