Release Notes


|4.9 Support for Windows ME, Windows XP and Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition Platforms

|DB2 now supports Microsoft Windows ME, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 |Datacenter Edition platforms. Following is additional platform-specific |information.

|4.9.1 Windows XP

|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.

|4.9.1.1 Limitations

|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: |

  1. |Leave the error window open.
  2. |Open a command window.
  3. |Run the command db2start.exe.
  4. |Run the command specified in the error window, using the password |specified for the user shown on the command line.
  5. |Return to the error window, and click OK. The install |will now continue. |

|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..

|4.9.2 Windows ME

|The following products and versions support Windows ME when installed with |FixPak 2 or later: |

|4.9.2.1 Limitations

|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.

|4.9.3 Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

|The following DB2 products are certified for Windows 2000 Datacenter |Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and Windows 2000 Server: |


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