If you are running the WebSphere 3.5.5 user profile sample with DB2 V7.2 FixPak 4 or later on Linux390, you might receive a SIGSEGV 11 (*) segmentation violation. This problem relates to a defect in the JDK, and will occur with both JDK 1.2.2 and JDK 1.3.
The problem may additionally affect other JDBC applications.
The November service release of JDK 1.2.2 fixes this problem. JDK 1.3 will be fixed in its January service release.
A workaround for this problem is to turn off the JIT with the following command:
export JAVA_COMPILER=NONE