IBM DB2 Net Search Extender 9.5 FP3 Install Notes Net Search Extender 9.5 Fix Pack 3 contains fixes for the following APARs IC58821 - NET SEARCH EXTENDER SEARCHES WITH DBCS SEARCH TERMS CAN TERMINATE WITH A SYNTAX ERROR EVEN IF THE SYNTAX LOOKS CORRECT. IC58550 - UNDER HIGH PARALLEL QUERY LOAD, NET SEARCH EXTENDER FAILS TO RELEASE INTERNAL LOCKS UNTIL THE MAXIMUM NUMBER IS EXCEEDED. IC59777 - NET SEARCH EXTENDER QUERIES WITH LARGE DBCS THESAURUS EXPANSIONS CAN FAIL WITH A CTE0103 ERROR. IC58466 - NET SEARCH EXTENDER IGNORES -S OPTION IN DB2NSE_INSTALL FOR SILENT INSTALL IC59825 - NEW NET SEARCH EXTENDER ERROR MESSAGE INDICATES MASK EXPANSION OVERFLOW If you have a previous level of Net Search Extender 9.5 installed on your system and you want to install Net Search Extender 9.5 Fixpack 3 please follow the deinstallation steps. Deinstall an older Net Search Extender 9.5 ========================================== Do NOT disable the database for text. That will drop all your indexes 1. Stop the DB2 Net Search Extender instance 2. Stop the DB2 instance. 3. To uninstall the product, use Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. Installing on Windows ===================== 1. Extract db2nse95fp3_windows_32.zip for Windows 32 bit or db2nse95fp3_windows_64.zip for Windows 64 bit 2. Use setup.exe in the windows/install or window64/install directory to transfer the files from the package to the target machine. 3. Follow the instruction during installation processing. 4. If you have existing DB2 instances that you need to update to use Net Search Extender, carry out the following steps for each instance: a. As instance user: Stop DB2 and Net Search Extender. Enter "db2stop" and "db2text stop" b. Run db2iupdt where is an existing DB2 instance