Hi

I'm getting a bit confused in the IBM download sites ...

I've downloaded DB2 UDB v8.1 ESE for Linux and installed it without incident
(except: on SuSE 9 I couldn;t use db2setup due to some known Java issue -
does anyone know when this might be fixed?)

Now I want to install just the Admin Tools like Control Center on Windows
desktops to manage the Linux instance. I can't see this download anywhere.
I guess I can install DB2 Personal Edition for Windows and it will be in
there, but that seems to me that I will download 500MBytes just to access
the small-ish subset I need.

Am I missing something: can the Admin suite be downloaded independently?

thanks
Neil

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I'm getting a bit confused in the IBM download sites ...
>
> I've downloaded DB2 UDB v8.1 ESE for Linux and installed it without
incident
> (except: on SuSE 9 I couldn;t use db2setup due to some known Java issue -
> does anyone know when this might be fixed?)
>
> Now I want to install just the Admin Tools like Control Center on Windows
> desktops to manage the Linux instance. I can't see this download
anywhere.
> I guess I can install DB2 Personal Edition for Windows and it will be in
> there, but that seems to me that I will download 500MBytes just to access
> the small-ish subset I need.
>
> Am I missing something: can the Admin suite be downloaded independently?
>
> thanks
> Neil
>
You can get the administration client here:
http://www-3.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2www/...oad.d2w/report

DB2 is not supported on Linux 9 distributions because of Java issues you
mentioned. There are workarounds that have been posted previously in this
newsgroup. Check the google newsgroup archives for information.

Download the Admin client:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/produc...8/client/admin

Neil Truby wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm getting a bit confused in the IBM download sites ...
>
> I've downloaded DB2 UDB v8.1 ESE for Linux and installed it without incident
> (except: on SuSE 9 I couldn;t use db2setup due to some known Java issue -
> does anyone know when this might be fixed?)
>
> Now I want to install just the Admin Tools like Control Center on Windows
> desktops to manage the Linux instance. I can't see this download anywhere.
> I guess I can install DB2 Personal Edition for Windows and it will be in
> there, but that seems to me that I will download 500MBytes just to access
> the small-ish subset I need.
>
> Am I missing something: can the Admin suite be downloaded independently?
>
> thanks
> Neil
>
>

Thanks, I appreciate that.
Sorry to labour this, but would anyone be able to pinpoint the *exact*
download? I download what I though was the right thing (350MB) but just get
the message "This installation is not valid for your processor type".

cheers
Neil


"Mark A" <ma@switchboard.net> wrote in message
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> "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message
> news:bu39pk$d95cn$1@ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm getting a bit confused in the IBM download sites ...
> >
> > I've downloaded DB2 UDB v8.1 ESE for Linux and installed it without
> incident
> > (except: on SuSE 9 I couldn;t use db2setup due to some known Java
issue -
> > does anyone know when this might be fixed?)
> >
> > Now I want to install just the Admin Tools like Control Center on
Windows
> > desktops to manage the Linux instance. I can't see this download
> anywhere.
> > I guess I can install DB2 Personal Edition for Windows and it will be in
> > there, but that seems to me that I will download 500MBytes just to
access
> > the small-ish subset I need.
> >
> > Am I missing something: can the Admin suite be downloaded independently?
> >
> > thanks
> > Neil
> >
> You can get the administration client here:
>
http://www-3.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2www/...oad.d2w/report
>
> DB2 is not supported on Linux 9 distributions because of Java issues you
> mentioned. There are workarounds that have been posted previously in this
> newsgroup. Check the google newsgroup archives for information.
>
>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.ibm-db2
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: DB2 UDB Admin tools


> Thanks, I appreciate that.
> Sorry to labour this, but would anyone be able to pinpoint the *exact*
> download? I download what I though was the right thing (350MB) but just
get
> the message "This installation is not valid for your processor type".


Actually, this is because I am a complete arse and downloaded the 64-bit
version ....

Welcome to DB2???

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message
news:bu441g$de2f0$1@ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.databases.ibm-db2
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:59 PM
> Subject: Re: DB2 UDB Admin tools
>
>
> > Thanks, I appreciate that.
> > Sorry to labour this, but would anyone be able to pinpoint the *exact*
> > download? I download what I though was the right thing (350MB) but just
> get
> > the message "This installation is not valid for your processor type".
>
>
> Actually, this is because I am a complete arse and downloaded the 64-bit
> version ....
>
>