17.9. Case Study

You want to enable your DB2 database server running on Linux to accept client connections using TCP/IP. (This process is covered in Chapter 6, Configuring Client and Server Connectivity.) The first thing you need to do is to set the DB2COMM registry variable to TCPIP, for example:

					db2set db2comm=tcpip

Then you stop and restart the instance for the setting of DB2COMM to take effect. However, when you start the instance again, you get the following message:

SQL5043N Support for one or more communications protocols failed to start successfully.
 However, core database manager functionality started successfully.

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