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Text Extender: Administration and Programming


Text configuration settings

Text configuration settings are created when you enable a database. These are default settings for text, index, and processing characteristics. You can display and change these default settings; see Displaying the text configuration settings and Changing the text configuration.

Text characteristics

Information about text documents describes the document formats, languages, and CCSIDs supported by Text Extender. Default values for these are required by various administration commands.

When Text Extender is installed, the default text configuration settings are:

FORMAT
TDS

LANGUAGE
The LANGUAGE that was set for the database

CCSID
The CCSID that was set for the database

Index characteristics

DIRECTORY
Directory to be used to store the index.

Initial setting for UNIX systems: DB2TX_INSTOWNER/db2tx/indexes

Initial setting for OS/2 and Windows NT: DMBMMPATH\instance\instance-name \db2tx\indexes where DMBMMPATH is the path in which Text Extender is installed. For Windows clients, DIRECTORY must be set to the name of a directory on the server machine.

INDEXTYPE
Index type to be used. See Types of index for a description.

Initial setting: LINGUISTIC

UPDATEFREQ
Frequency for periodic index update. See Setting the frequency of index updates for a description.

Initial setting: NONE

Processing characteristics

UPDATEINDEX
Setting to determine when the first index update occurs: either immediately after the index is created (UPDATE), or later according to the update frequency settings (NOUPDATE).

Initial setting: UPDATE

COMMITCOUNT
Setting to determine after how many insert or update statements Text Extender issues a DB2 UDB commit statement. See Enabling a text column in a large table.

Initial setting: 10000


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