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Error "DB2 in your environment should only be started by TSA" in IOC environment

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Error "DB2 in your environment should only be started by TSA" in IOC environment

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In IOC(Intelligent Operations Center) environment, you may receive error "DB2 in your environment should only be started by TSA"

if you try to run db2start.

Please note this is not a message generated by the usual db2start command from Db2, but rather IOC overloaded script db2start

provided by IOC. This is due to IOC has a high availability environment managed by TSA(Tivoli System Automation) and you are

not supposed to start/stop Db2 in the same way of non-HA envionment.

If you need to manually start/stop Db2 in IOC for some reason, please refer to the following technote:

/support/pages/node/734579

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