If you bought the product on Media then the license key should be a part of the installation image and should be located under db2/license subdirectory. Please add this license certificate as an instance owner using either the License Center GUI tool or the DB2 command ‘db2licm -a ‘. The license files shipped with the product CDs in DB2 9 are called “base” licenses. A “base” license does not actually confer any usage rights at all. These are shipped so that DB2 will at least start (though it starts with a warning message). Versions DB2 9 and DB2 9.5 come with “activation CDs” that contain actual license certificates. There is one for every possibly type of license policy (CPU, authorized user, developer, etc) and these are the license certificates that must be added. An installation which is not yet licensed will show up as having a license type of “Unlicensed base” in either the License Center or ‘db2licm -l’ output. If you downloaded your product from t
