Release Notes

Installation and Configuration

Partial Table-of-Contents

  • General Installation, Migration and Configuration Information
  • 4.1 Downloading Installation Packages for All Supported DB2 Clients
  • 4.2 Additional Required Solaris Patch Level
  • |4.3 Installing DB2 Enterprise-Extended Edition on AIX
  • |4.4 Netscape LDAP directory support
  • |4.4.1 Extending the Netscape LDAP schema
  • |4.5 Support for Windows ME, Windows XP and Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition Platforms
  • |4.5.1 Windows XP
  • |4.5.1.1 Limitations
  • |4.5.2 Windows ME
  • |4.5.2.1 Limitations
  • |4.5.3 Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
  • |4.6 Installing DB2 in Windows 95
  • 4.7 Installing DB2 on Windows 2000
  • |4.8 Running DB2 under Windows 2000 Terminal Server, Administration Mode
  • 4.9 Microsoft SNA Server and SNA Multisite Update (Two Phase Commit) Support
  • 4.10 Define User ID and Password in IBM Communications Server for Windows NT (CS/NT)
  • 4.10.1 Node Definition
  • 4.11 DB2 Install May Hang if a Removable Drive is Not Attached
  • 4.12 Error SQL1035N when Using CLP on Windows 2000
  • 4.13 Migration Issue Regarding Views Defined with Special Registers
  • 4.14 IPX/SPX Protocol Support on Windows 2000
  • 4.15 Stopping DB2 Processes Before Upgrading a Previous Version of DB2
  • 4.16 Run db2iupdt After Installing DB2 If Another DB2 Product is Already Installed
  • 4.17 Setting up the Linux Environment to Run the DB2 Control Center
  • 4.18 DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition and DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition for Linux on S/390
  • |4.19 Possible Data Loss on Linux for S/390
  • |4.20 Gnome and KDE Desktop Integration for DB2 on Linux
  • |4.21 Solaris Kernel Configuration Parameters (Recommended Values)
  • |4.22 DB2 Universal Database Enterprise - Extended Edition for UNIX Quick Beginnings
  • 4.23 shmseg Kernel Parameter for HP-UX
  • 4.24 Migrating IBM Visual Warehouse Control Databases
  • |4.25 Migrating Unique Indexes Using the db2uiddl Command
  • |4.26 64-bit AIX Version Installation Error
  • |4.26.1 Using SMIT
  • 4.27 Errors During Migration
  • |4.28 IBM(R) DB2(R) Connect License Activation
  • |4.28.1 Installing Your License Key and Setting the License Type Using the License Center
  • |4.28.2 Installing your License Key and Setting License Type Using the db2licm Command
  • |4.28.3 License Considerations for Distributed Installations
  • 4.29 Accessing Warehouse Control Databases
  • 4.30 Trial Products on Enterprise Edition UNIX CD-ROMs
  • 4.31 Trial Products on DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition UNIX CD-ROMs
  • |4.32 Additional Configuration Needed Before Installing the Information Catalog Center for the Web
  • |4.33 Code Page and Language Support Information - Correction

  • Data Links Manager Quick Beginnings
  • |5.1 Support on AIX 5.1
  • 5.2 Dlfm Start Fails with Message: "Error in getting the afsfid for prefix"
  • 5.3 Setting Tivoli Storage Manager Class for Archive Files
  • 5.4 Disk Space Requirements for DFS Client Enabler
  • 5.5 Monitoring the Data Links File Manager Back-end Processes on AIX
  • 5.6 Installing and Configuring DB2 Data Links Manager for AIX: Additional Installation Considerations in DCE-DFS Environments
  • 5.7 Failed "dlfm add_prefix" Command
  • 5.8 In the Rare Event that the Copy Daemon Does Not Stop on dlfm stop
  • 5.9 Installing and Configuring DB2 Data Links Manager for AIX: Installing DB2 Data Links Manager on AIX Using the db2setup Utility
  • 5.10 Installing and Configuring DB2 Data Links Manager for AIX: DCE-DFS Post-Installation Task
  • 5.11 Installing and Configuring DB2 Data Links Manager for AIX: Manually Installing DB2 Data Links Manager Using Smit
  • 5.12 Installing and Configuring DB2 Data Links DFS Client Enabler
  • 5.13 Installing and Configuring DB2 Data Links Manager for Solaris
  • |5.14 Administrator Group Privileges in Data Links on Windows NT
  • 5.15 Minimize Logging for Data Links File System Filter (DLFF) Installation
  • 5.15.1 Logging Messages after Installation
  • |5.15.2 Minimizing Logging on Sun Solaris Systems
  • 5.16 DATALINK Restore
  • 5.17 Drop Data Links Manager
  • 5.18 Uninstalling DLFM Components Using SMIT May Remove Additional Filesets
  • 5.19 Before You Begin/Determine Hostname
  • 5.20 Working with the Data Links File Manager: Cleaning up After Dropping a DB2 Data Links Manager from a DB2 Database
  • 5.21 User Action for dlfm Client_conf Failure
  • 5.22 DLFM1001E (New Error Message)
  • 5.23 DLFM Setup Configuration File Option
  • |5.24 Potential Problem When Restoring Files
  • 5.25 Error when Running Data Links/DFS Script dmapp_prestart on AIX
  • |5.26 Tivoli Space Manager Integration with Data Links
  • |5.26.1 Restrictions and Limitations
  • 5.27 Chapter 4. Installing and Configuring DB2 Data Links Manager for AIX
  • 5.27.1 Common Installation Considerations
  • 5.27.1.1 Migrating from DB2 File Manager Version 5.2 to DB2 Data Links Manager Version 7
  • |5.28 Chapter 6. Verifying the Installation on AIX
  • |5.28.1 Workarounds in NFS environments

  • Installation and Configuration Supplement
  • 6.1 Chapter 5. Installing DB2 Clients on UNIX Operating Systems
  • |6.1.1 HP-UX Kernel Configuration Parameters
  • 6.2 Chapter 12. Running Your Own Applications
  • 6.2.1 Binding Database Utilities Using the Run-Time Client
  • 6.2.2 UNIX Client Access to DB2 Using ODBC
  • |6.3 Chapter 24. Setting Up a Federated System to Access Multiple Data Sources
  • |6.3.1 Federated Systems
  • |6.3.2 Restriction
  • |6.3.3 Installing DB2 Relational Connect
  • |6.3.3.1 Installing DB2 Relational Connect on Windows NT servers
  • |6.3.3.2 Installing DB2 Relational Connect on UNIX Servers
  • |6.3.4 Chapter 24. Setting Up a Federated System to Access Multiple Data Sources
  • |6.3.4.1 Understanding the schema used with nicknames
  • |6.3.4.2 Issues when restoring a federated database onto a different federated server
  • |6.4 Chapter 26. Accessing Oracle Data Sources
  • |6.4.1 Documentation Errors
  • |6.5 Avoiding problems when working with remote LOBs
  • |6.6 Accessing Sybase Data Sources
  • |6.6.1 Adding Sybase Data Sources to a Federated Server
  • |6.6.1.1 Step 1: Set the environment variables and update the profile registry (AIX and Solaris only)
  • |6.6.1.2 Step 2: Link DB2 to Sybase client software (AIX and Solaris only)
  • |6.6.1.3 Step 3: Recycle the DB2 instance (AIX and Solaris only)
  • |6.6.1.4 Step 4: Create and set up an interfaces file
  • |6.6.1.5 Step 5: Create the wrapper
  • |6.6.1.6 Step 6: Optional: Set the DB2_DJ_COMM environment variable
  • |6.6.1.7 Step 7: Create the server
  • |6.6.1.8 Step 8: Optional: Set the CONNECTSTRING server option
  • |6.6.1.9 Step 9: Create a user mapping
  • |6.6.1.10 Step 10: Create nicknames for tables and views
  • |6.6.2 Specifying Sybase code pages
  • |6.7 Accessing Microsoft SQL Server Data Sources using ODBC (new chapter)
  • |6.7.1 Adding Microsoft SQL Server Data Sources to a Federated Server
  • |6.7.1.1 Step 1: Set the environment variables (AIX only)
  • |6.7.1.2 Step 2: Run the shell script (AIX only)
  • |6.7.1.3 Step 3: Optional: Set the DB2_DJ_COMM environment variable (AIX only)
  • |6.7.1.4 Step 4: Recycle the DB2 instance (AIX only)
  • |6.7.1.5 Step 5: Create the wrapper
  • |6.7.1.6 Step 6: Create the server
  • |6.7.1.7 Step 7: Create a user mapping
  • |6.7.1.8 Step 8: Create nicknames for tables and views
  • |6.7.1.9 Step 9: Optional: Obtain ODBC traces
  • |6.7.2 Reviewing Microsoft SQL Server code pages (Windows NT only)
  • 6.8 Accessing Informix Data Sources (new chapter)
  • 6.8.1 Adding Informix Data Sources to a Federated Server
  • 6.8.1.1 Step 1: Set the environment variables and update the profile registry
  • 6.8.1.2 Step 2: Link DB2 to Informix client software
  • 6.8.1.3 Step 3: Recycle the DB2 instance
  • |6.8.1.4 Step 4: Create the Informix sqlhosts file
  • 6.8.1.5 Step 5: Create the wrapper
  • 6.8.1.6 Step 6: Optional: Set the DB2_DJ_COMM environment variable
  • 6.8.1.7 Step 7: Create the server
  • 6.8.1.8 Step 8: Create a user mapping
  • 6.8.1.9 Step 9: Create nicknames for tables, views, and Informix synonyms

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