DB2 Connect Quick Beginnings PE

Before You Begin

Before you begin the installation, ensure that you have the following items and information:

  1. Ensure that your system meets all of the memory, hardware, and software requirements to install your DB2 product. For more information, see Planning for Installation.
  2. The type of host connectivity you will be using:
  3. A user account that will be used to perform the installation. There are two methods to install: an Adminstrator's install and a non-Administrator's install (available only on Windows NT and Windows 2000 Professional).

    For an administrator's install, the account you are logged in as must:

    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:
    • The Control Center is unavailable.
    • Net Question and Personal Communications require administrative authority. Therefore, both Net Question and integrated SNA support is unavailable. If the system already has an integrated SNA stack, SNA support will then be available.

    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:

  4. During installation, you will provide a user account that will be used by the DB2 Administration Server to log on to the system. The account you specify must be defined locally and belong to the Local Administrator's group.

    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.

  5. During the installation, you may also be prompted for user names and passwords for the products and services that you install.
  6. If you want to use LDAP with Windows 2000, you must extend the directory schema to contain DB2 object classes and attribute definitions. You must do this once, before you install any DB2 product.

    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.


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