Before you begin the installation, ensure that you have the following items and information:
For an administrator's install, the account you are logged in as must:
![]() | You can perform the installation without these advanced user rights, but the setup program will be unable to validate accounts. We recommend that any user account used to install this product have these advanced user rights. |
For a non-Administrator's install, which is only available on Windows NT and Windows 2000 Professional, the account you are logged in as must belong to a group with more authority than the Guests group. For example, the Users group or the Power Users group.
Note: | The non-Administrator's install does have some limitations:
Some information about DB2 Connect that must appear in the registry must now be entered in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder in the registry. Although many items will be stored under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder in the registry for non-Administrator installations of DB2 Connect, the environment settings must be changed in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. System shortcuts must be changed to user shortcuts for the non-Administrator install. Moreover, since services are required to install any of the DB2 Connect products, but cannot be created without administrative authority, services that would be automatically started are run as processes when a non-administrator installs. |
The following are some specific install scenarios:
By default, the setup program will create a user account using the username db2admin and the password that you specify. You can accept the default user account, create your own user account by modifying the default values, or provide your own. If you create or provide your own user account, ensure that it conforms to DB2's naming rules. For more information, see Appendix D, Naming Rules.
To extend the directory schema, execute the db2schex.exe program from the installation CD with Schema Admins authority. You can execute this program with Schema Admins authority, without logging off and logging on again, as follows:
runas /user:MyDomain\Administrator x:\db2\common\db2schex.exe
where x: represents the CD-ROM letter.
When db2schex.exe completes, you can continue with the installation.