Installing additional software for IBM Db2 Warehouse administration or operation

Observe the following best practices when installing additional software used to administer or operateIBM® Db2® Warehouse.

Software that can communicate over socket or TCP/IP should be installed outside the IBM Db2 Warehouse container, and can be installed on the host or in a standard client/server architecture. Software that communicates directly with the database via inter-process communication (IPC) or dynamic linked libraries (DLLs) must be installed inside the Db2 Warehouse container.

The following directories are specified in the docker run or podman run command used to deploy the container:

/mnt/bludata0
/mnt/blumeta0

Software installed in these directories remains persistent, even after a container update. However, any software that is installed outside these directories is lost during a container update and must be re-installed after the update completes.