2598748 - R3trans reports "libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.16 not found" error after IBM CLI driver upgrade from 10.5 FP5 to 11.1 FP2

After upgrade of the DB2 Connect IBM DB2 CLI/JDBC client from v10.5 to v11.1 R3trans reports the following error:

sapsid:sidadm 57> cat trans.log
4 ETW000 R3trans version 6.26 (release 745 - 24.03.17 - 20:17:03).
4 ETW000 unicode enabled version
4 ETW000 ===============================================
4 ETW000
4 ETW000 date&time   : 06.12.2017 - 15:42:50
4 ETW000 control file: <no ctrlfile>
4 ETW000 R3trans was called as follows: R3trans -d
4 ETW000  trace at level 1 opened for a given file pointer
4 ETW000  [     dev trc,00000]  Wed Dec  6 15:42:50 2017
4 ETW000  [     dev trc,00000]  Loading DB library '/usr/sap/SID/SYS/exe/uc/linuxs390x/dbdb2slib.so' ...
4 ETW000  [     dev trc,00000]  Library '/usr/sap/SID/SYS/exe/uc/linuxs390x/dbdb2slib.so' loaded
4 ETW000  [     dev trc,00000]  Version of '/usr/sap/SID/SYS/exe/uc/linuxs390x/dbdb2slib.so' is "745.04", patchlevel (0.618)
4 ETW000  [     dev trc,00000]  DB2Trc: dbs/db2/dsn_alias is not set -> we use the SAP fail over feature
4 ETW000  [dlux.c      ,00000]  *** ERROR => DlLoadLib()==DLENOACCESS - dlopen("libdb2.so") FAILED
4 ETW000                          "/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.16' not found (required by /usr/sap/SID/SYS/global/db2/LINUX_S390X_64/db2_clidriver/lib/libdb2.so)"
4 ETW000  [     dev trc,00000]  Could not load DB2 library libdb2.so.  No database connection possible.
4 ETW000  [dbdb2s.c    ,00000]  *** ERROR => initialization of CLI interface failed with error '-89983'
2EETW169 no connect possible: "DBMS = DB2/MVS --- "
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You can execute the "ldd" command against libdb2.so driver and see the same error.

sapsid:sidadm 81> ldd libdb2.so
./libdb2.so: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.16' not found (required by ./libdb2.so)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x000003ffa1d00000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x000003ffa1c80000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x000003ffa1c00000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x000003ffa1b80000)
        libpam.so.0 => /lib64/libpam.so.0 (0x000003ffa1b00000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x000003ffa1a00000)
        libibmc++.so.1 => ./libibmc++.so.1 (0x000003ffa1980000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x000003ffa1800000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x000003ffa1780000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x000003ffa1580000)
        libfreebl3.so => /lib64/libfreebl3.so (0x000003ffa1500000)
        /lib/ld64.so.1 (0x000002aa3be80000)
        libaudit.so.1 => /lib64/libaudit.so.1 (0x000003ffa1480000)
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• SAP SOLUTION MANAGER 7.2
• DB2 z/OS 11.01.0005
• IBM DB2 Driver for CLI,ODBC,JDBC,SQLJ  V11.1 FP2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9

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