Disclaimer

NOTICE TO USERS OF THE NICKNAME MANAGER CODE: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION PROVIDES THE NICKNAME MANAGER CODE, BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ONE OR MORE GROUPS, AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE NICKNAME MANAGER CODE, BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ONE OR MORE GROUPS, IS WITH YOU. SHOULD ANY PART OF THE NICKNAME MANAGER CODE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU (AND NOT IBM) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST IF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

Where to get help

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please send them directly to me, Michael L. Pauser (pauserml@us.ibm.com). As the Nickname Manager is not officially supported by IBM, do not contact IBM Help. I will try to reply as quickly as possible, whenever possible.

Prerequisites

• Java JDK v1.1.n or Java JRE
• IBM DB2 DataJoiner v2.12

Installation

• Create a directory (such as D:\NICKNAME).
• Download the latest .zip file (nick_0_1.zip) into this directory.
• Unzip the downloaded file. The .zip file contents will be extracted.

Running as an Application

java NNM login={userid} password={password} server={JDBC server URL} driver={DB2 JDBC driver}
(note: the {} parameters are optional)

• If you are going against your own DataJoiner installation, you may need to start the db2jstrt process, as described in the DB2 Java pubs section. For example, db2jstrt {port number} where {port number} is the port number for the JDBC server to use for all communication.

Running as an Applet

• While you may run the Nickname Manager as an applet, I have not yet documented this or the numerous options setup. This will be documented in future releases.

Instructions / Getting Started

• After installing the tool refer to the help file, .\help\djxnnmst.htm, for step-by-step instructions on using the Nickname Manager.

Other notes

• The following datasources are currently supported and have been tested: DB2/400, MSSQLSERVER, ORACLE, SYBASE. Support for DB2/MVS and DB2/VM has been added, but not tested. More are being added every day (or so).