|Incompatibilities have been encountered with Unicode support when the |Merant Driver Manager accesses DB2's ODBC driver on UNIX. These |incompatibilities result in Unicode being used by the Merant Driver Manager |regardless of whether the application has requested its use. This can |lead to problems with products such as the Data Warehouse Center, Information |Catalog Manager, and MQSI, which require the Merant Driver Manager to support |non-IBM data sources. You can use an alternate DB2 ODBC driver library |without Unicode support enabled until a permanent solution is |available. The affected versions of DB2 UDB include Version 7.1 |with FixPak 2 or later, and Version 7.2 at any FixPak level.
|An alternative DB2 ODBC driver library without Unicode support enabled was |shipped with DB2 Versions 7.1 and 7.2 for AIX, HP-UX, and |Solaris Operating Environment. To use this alternative library, you |must create a copy of it, giving the copy the original DB2 ODBC driver |library's name.
|To switch to the non-Unicode ODBC library on AIX, HP-UX, or the Solaris |Operating Environment, see the following instructions. Because this is |a manual process, you must carry it out every time you update your product, |including after the application of successive FixPaks.
|AIX
|To create the necessary library on AIX: |
|cp db2_36.o db2.o |-r--r--r-- bin:bin for db2.o|
|To switch back to the original object, follow the same procedure using the |backup file instead of db2_36.o.
|Solaris Operating Environment
|To create the necessary library: |
|cp libdb2_36.so.1 libdb2.so.1 |-r-xr-xr-x bin:bin libdb2.so.1
|To switch back to the original object, follow the same procedure using the |backup file instead of libdb2_36.so.1.
|HP-UX - Only available for FixPak 4 or later.
|You must install FixPak 4 or later before attempting this |workaround.
|To create the necessary library on HP-UX: |
|-r-xr-xr-x bin:bin for libdb2.sl
|To switch back to the original object, follow the same procedure using the |backup file instead of libdb2_36.sl.
|Other UNIX Operating Systems
|If you require assistance with DB2 and the Merant Driver Manager on other |UNIX operating systems, please contact IBM Support.