Problems creating DB2 UDB LUW db from GUI tools

I've had tons of problems creating db's (or doing some other operations) from the GUID tools, including Data Studio, and the control center (under db2 9.7).

It's always complained about the DAS, but the DAS (the DB2 Administration Server) is always happily running.

Today I stumbled across something that told me to issue the following command:

db2admin create

I then ran a

db2admin start

!!!! WORKED LIKE A CHARM !!!!

After that, I was able to successfully verify the instance, connect, and create the db I was trying to create.

Sorry - wish I had captured some screenshots along the way, but now that I've fixed it, I can't reproduce ;-)

At any rate, hope this helps someone.

IBM DATA STUDIO DEBUGGER OUT OF SYNC WITH SOURCE

I struggled most of the morning with my IBM Data Studio 4.1 debugger being out of sync with my source as I stepped through it.

The answer seems to be that I was creating string variables that had newlines in them.

Example:

SET PPN_INSERT_STRING = 'INSERT INTO FEDICC.MIG_PARTY_PERSON_NAME (
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_ID,
                   PARTY_ID,
                   PERS_NM_TTL_CD,
                   PERS_NM_SUFX_CD,
                   PERS_NM_TYP_CD,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_NM_LST,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_NM_FST,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_NM_MID,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_NM_UPCS_SRCH,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_NM_DISP_DRV,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_NM_LST_UPCS_SRCH,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_NM_FST_UPCS_SRCH,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_NM_MID_UPCS_SRCH,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_NM_LST_DUP_SRCH,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_NM_FST_DUP_SRCH,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_NM_MID_DUP_SRCH,
                   EXTRNL_SYS_ID_VAL_TXT,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_EFF_DT,
                   PARTY_PERS_NM_END_DT,
                   CNCURNCY_ID,
                   AUDT_USER_CREA_ID,
                   AUDT_USER_CREA_DTM,
                   AUDT_USER_UPDT_ID,
                   AUDT_USER_UPDT_DTM,
                   DEL_IND) VALUES ';

I changed this to be all on one line, and the debugger is no synced with the source.

There must be some defect by which the debugger cannot properly handle statements like the one above.

This works: (Using screen shot since it will just paginate on the blog):

To achieve this, I used Notepad++ with a regular expression search, replacing \r\n with a space, and then replaceing * with a single space.

Happy hunting :)