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3239746 - DB2 11.5 upgrade issue, ERROR: The installation of the license file.

Symptom

You're upgrading the Db2 database from 10.5 to 11.5 and see the following errors reported.

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Updating the db2ls and db2greg link :.......Success 
ERROR: The installation of the license file 
"/root/db2.tmp.14025310/db2/aix/install/../../license/db2dec.lic" using the 
command "/db2/db2crp/db2_V11.5/adm/db2licm -a 
"/root/db2.tmp.14025310/db2/aix/install/../../license/db2dec.lic" -install" did 
not complete successfully. The error data is "". The Return value was "255".

Registering DB2 licenses :.......Failure 
ERROR: The value "DB2SYSTEM=servername" could not be added to the Global Profile 
Registry. Return value is "255".
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Environment

  • IBM DB2 LUW (DB6) 10.5 and later

Product

SAP Customer Relationship Management 7.0 on SAP enhancement package 1 for SAP NetWeaver 7.0

Keywords

DB2, upgrade, db2licm, db2set, license, db2dec.lic, DB2SYSTEM, Global Profile Registry , KBA , BC-DB-DB6 , DB2 Universal Database for Unix / NT , Problem

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