Manual:IBM DB2

The purpose of this page is to collect information and experiences about running MediaWiki on IBM DB2.

MediaWiki 1.15 was released with partial DB2 support. Improved DB2 support is in the development trunk and is slated for the 1.16 release. Current builds are linked below.

Prerequisites

 * IBM DB2 9.7 (required for implicit casting support)
 * MediaWiki 1.16alpha (1.15.x has major bugs)
 * ibm_db2 1.8.0 or better (Windows build)

Database creation
Before you can run the MediaWiki web installer, you have to create a database for MediaWiki to hold its data. In the commands below, wikidb is the name of the database. If you are using the command line, you will have to issue the commands in a single line each.

db2 CREATE DATABASE wikidb AUTOMATIC STORAGE YES USING CODESET UTF-8 TERRITORY US COLLATE USING SYSTEM PAGESIZE 32768

Enable the statement concentrator, which should get you the performance benefits of prepared statements without changing the MediaWiki codebase to use prepared statements everywhere

db2 CONNECT TO wikidb db2 UPDATE DATABASE CONFIGURATION USING STMT_CONC LITERALS IMMEDIATE db2stop force db2start

Enable the ability to do limits and offsets in the where clause.

db2stop force db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=01 -- or 0F db2start

RightScale
RightScale is a automation wrapper around the Amazon EC2 cloud environment. It has ready-made images for running IBM DB2.

Script for installing IBM DB2 PHP extension
This will install the ibm_db2 php extension on the base Ubuntu image on RightScale. It assumes you have the IBM Data Server Driver for ODBC and CLI attached to the script.

echo "Installing packages" apt-get update && apt-get -y install libstdc++5 libaio1 php-pear php5-dev php5 libapache2-mod-php5 TAR1=${ATTACH_DIR}/v9.7_linuxia32_odbc_cli.tar.gz TAR2=${ATTACH_DIR}/ibm_data_server_driver_for_odbc_cli_32_linuxia32_v97.tar.gz  echo "Unzipping" if [ -f ${TAR1} ]; then tar --index-file /tmp/odbc_cli.tar.log -xvvf ${TAR1} -C /tmp/ elif [ -f ${TAR2} ]; then tar --index-file /tmp/odbc_cli.tar.log -xvvf ${TAR2} -C /tmp/ else echo "File not found" fi echo "Deploying unzipped DB2 libraries" cd /tmp cp -ru odbc_cli/clidriver/* /usr echo "Installing php extension" pecl install ibm_db2 << COMMANDS 1 /usr COMMANDS echo "Updating php.ini" echo "extension=ibm_db2.so" >> /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini echo "Restarting the web server" /etc/init.d/apache2 restart exit 0
 * 1) !/bin/bash

Script for deploying a MediaWiki archive
This script assumes it has a MediaWiki installer attached in a MediaWiki.tar.gz file: mkdir /var/www/mediawiki -m 777 chown www-data:www-data /var/www/mediawiki tar --index-file /tmp/MediaWiki.tar.log -xvvf ${ATTACH_DIR}/MediaWiki.tar.gz -C /var/www/mediawiki exit 0
 * 1) !/bin/bash

Script for creating a MediaWiki database
echo "Creating database" su - db2inst1 -c "db2 CREATE DATABASE wikidb AUTOMATIC STORAGE YES USING CODESET UTF-8 TERRITORY US COLLATE USING SYSTEM PAGESIZE 32768" echo "Enable the Statement Concentrator" su - db2inst1 -c "db2 CONNECT TO wikidb && db2 UPDATE DATABASE CONFIGURATION USING STMT_CONC LITERALS IMMEDIATE" echo "Restarting DB2" su - db2inst1 -c "db2stop force" su - db2inst1 -c "db2start" exit 0
 * 1) !/bin/bash

SQL data types
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