DB2 now supports Microsoft Windows ME, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition platforms. Following is additional platform-specific information.
The following products and versions support 32-bit Windows XP when installed with FixPak 4 or later:
DB2 supports the same national languages on Windows XP systems as on other versions.
When entering user IDs and passwords during installation, you may receive a message that a user account entered in the install panel is not valid, even though it is valid. This will only happen with user IDs that exist on the machine. You should not have this problem you enter user names that do not yet exist.
If you choose to install DB2 under any user account but db2admin, then you must ensure that the account name conforms to DB2 naming rules. Most importantly, the name must not contain any spaces. For example my_name is acceptable, but my name is not.
If you receive error 1052 during the product installation, then do the following:
If you are using Simplified Chinese and find that fonts in the Control Center do not display properly, modify the sqllib\java\java12\jdk\jre\lib\font.properties.zh by replacing the entry filename.\u5b8b\u4f53=simsun.ttf with filename.\u5b8b\u4f53=simsun.ttc..
The following products and versions support Windows ME when installed with FixPak 2 or later:
The HTML Search Server capability is not supported on Window ME at this time
When you uninstall DB2, you may receive an error message indicating that the file MFC42U.DLL cannot be found. To fully uninstall DB2, manually delete the sqllib directory after the uninstall activity completes.
The following DB2 products are certified for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and Windows 2000 Server: