Moving from a Db2 Warehouse Enterprise Edition trial license to a production license

Your trial license entitles you to temporary (90 day) usage of Db2® Warehouse Enterprise Edition. To determine when your trial license expires, click Settings > System Settings in the web console. To continue using the product after the trial period, you must obtain and apply a production license.

About this task

You can apply the production license by using the web console or the command line. If you use the command line, you must have root authority.

Procedure

Use one of the following approaches:

  • Web console:
    1. Contact your IBM® sales representative to purchase the product.
    2. On IBM Passport Advantage®, locate the entry for IBM Db2 Warehouse License File English (CNR36EN) and download the corresponding license file, which has the name IBM_Db2_Warehouse_License_File_EN.zip.
    3. In the web console, click Settings > System Settings.
    4. Click Upload License File.

    After you convert to a production license, the value of the License Type field on the SYSTEM SETTINGS page changes to Production.

  • Command line:
    1. Contact your IBM sales representative to purchase the product.
    2. On IBM Passport Advantage, locate the entry for IBM Db2 Warehouse License File English (CNR36EN) and download the corresponding license file, which has the name IBM_Db2_Warehouse_License_File_EN.zip.
    3. On the host, decompress the license file into the root of the /mnt/clusterfs directory.
    4. On the head node host command line, issue the following command: 
      docker exec -it Db2wh manage_license -a /mnt/blumeta0/dash_c.lic
      podman exec -it Db2wh manage_license -a /mnt/blumeta0/dash_c.lic

    For a production license, the following message is returned: LIC1402I License added successfully.