You can install IBM® Data Server Runtime Client using
the db2setup.exe command on Linux or UNIX operating
systems or the setup.exe command on Windows operating systems. The parameters
of the two commands are different.
The following list describes selected popular standard Windows Installer command line
options available when you run setup.exe to install IBM Data Server Runtime Client on Windows operating systems. For
more information about the available Windows Installer
options, see http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/.
- /l*v[log file name]
- This option allows you to create a log of the installation. You
can use the log to troubleshoot any problems that you encountered
during the installation. If you specify a directory, this directory
must exist or must be created prior installation. Otherwise, the installation
returns an error and fails.
- /v
- This option allows you to pass additional command line options
and public properties to the Windows Installer.
You must specify this option to perform a response file installation.
- /qn
- This option allows you to perform a silent installation with no
User Interface (UI), except for a window that the Windows installer displays while it extracts
files from the installation package before it starts the actual installation.
- /qb!
- This option displays a basic user interface which shows simple
progress and error message handling and hides the Cancel button,
except in a window that the Windows installer
displays while it extracts files from the installation package before
it starts the actual installation.
- /s
- This option allows you to suppress the initialization dialog for
the installation.
- /L
- This option allow you to change the setup language by specifying
the language identifier. For example, to specify French as the setup
language, specify the French language identifier, setup.exe
/L1036 command.
Table 1. Language IdentifiersLanguage |
Identifier |
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) |
1025 |
Bulgarian |
1026 |
Chinese (Simplified) |
2052 |
Chinese (Traditional) |
1028 |
Croatian |
1050 |
Czech |
1029 |
Danish |
1030 |
Dutch (Standard) |
1043 |
English |
1033 |
Finnish |
1035 |
French (Standard) |
1036 |
German |
1031 |
Greek |
1032 |
Hebrew |
1037 |
Hungarian |
1038 |
Italian (Standard) |
1040 |
Japanese |
1041 |
Korean |
1042 |
Norwegian (Bokmal) |
1044 |
Polish |
1045 |
Portuguese (Brazilian) |
1046 |
Portuguese (Standard) |
2070 |
Romanian |
1048 |
Russian |
1049 |
Slovak |
1051 |
Slovenian |
1060 |
Spanish (Traditional Sort) |
1034 |
Swedish |
1053 |
Turkish |
1055 |
Here are the public properties that you can specify to
control the installation of
Data Server Runtime Client:
- These parameters must be the last parameters in the command line.
- RSP_FILE_PATH - This contains the full path
to the response file that you use to install Data Server Runtime Client.
This is valid only when you specify /qn.
To
perform a response file installation with a log file, the following
command line parameter should be used:
setup /v" /l*v [Full path to a log file] /qn RSP_FILE_PATH=[Full path to the response file]"
The
example assumes that no copy of the client is already installed. If
one or more copies exist, the command is different. To install a second
copy using a response file, use the following command:
setup /v" TRANSFORMS=:InstanceId1.mst MSINEWINSTANCE=1
/qn RSP_FILE_PATH=[Full path to the response file]"
Silent
installation
There are cases when the setup.exe cannot
be found in the IBM Data Server
Runtime Client image. IBM Data Server Runtime Client (RTCL)
image is a single .EXE file and does not include the setup.exe.
Without the setup.exe, installation must be done
by using a response file (silent installation). It is by design that
the sample response file is not included in the Runtime Client image.
To
implement the silent installation, from the
DB2® command window, run the
following steps:
- Generate the response file, by entering the following command:
db2rspgn -d <a valid path to store the response file>
- Start the silent installation, by entering the following command:
<RTCL exe> /v"/l*v <log file location> /qn RSP_FILE_PATH=<location of the response file>"
An example would be : v9.5fp4_nt32_rtcl /v"/l*v c:\DB2LOG\db2rtcl.log /qn RSP_FILE_PATH=c:\db2rtcl.rsp"
Note
- On Windows operating systems, the setup.exe file
follows the format <release><fix
pack><platform><product>.exe.
For example, the setup file v10fp1_nt32_rtcl.exe,
where release=v10, fix
pack= fp1, platform=nt32 and product=rtcl,
is used when using the IBM Data Server Runtime Client with Version 10.1 Fix
Pack 1 on a NT32 platform.