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I just started downloading FP7 for DB2 V8 and happened to notice that
the file sizes for all flavors of FP7 are significantly smaller than
the corresponding FP6 file sizes. With all the new function in FP7
(Stinger) I was expecting FP7 to be much bigger than FP6. Are these
files correct or has something changed in the packaging of this FP.
Thanks.

Perry Shindle
BearingPoint, Inc.

In article <4b72b916.0408230707.4693c155@posting.google.com >, Perry R
Shindle (shindle@attglobal.net) says...
> I just started downloading FP7 for DB2 V8 and happened to notice that
> the file sizes for all flavors of FP7 are significantly smaller than
> the corresponding FP6 file sizes. With all the new function in FP7
> (Stinger) I was expecting FP7 to be much bigger than FP6. Are these
> files correct or has something changed in the packaging of this FP.
> Thanks.
>
> Perry Shindle
> BearingPoint, Inc.
>

Hi,

There's a empty file in the Windows FP7 directory:

DO_NOT_DOWNLOAD_FP7

so I guess we better not try to install it.
I did it, installed it but as you might have seen in a previous post
the fixpack doesn't seem to be complete.

Gert,

Your problem seesm to be limited to DB2 PE. Is that what you downloaded?

Cheers
Serge

The download of FP7 is good. It's presence will be published shortly.
Feel free to download and use it.

Cheers
Serge

In article <uSFWc.69493$UYx.40804
@twister01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>, Serge Rielau
(srielau@ca.eye-bee-em.com) says...
> Gert,
>
> Your problem seesm to be limited to DB2 PE. Is that what you downloaded?
>
> Cheers
> Serge
>

Yes, that's the one I downloaded.

OK, there'll be a technote on this soon.
From what I understand is that this is a DB2 V8 PE problem, rather than
FP7 specific.
There are two ways to get the two missing files I suppose right now.
One is to open a PMR, the other is to download another edition and copy
them over.

Cheers
Serge

In article <412b8d4d_3@news3.prserv.net>, Serge Rielau
(srielau@ca.eye-bee-em.com) says...
> OK, there'll be a technote on this soon.
> From what I understand is that this is a DB2 V8 PE problem, rather than
> FP7 specific.
> There are two ways to get the two missing files I suppose right now.
> One is to open a PMR, the other is to download another edition and copy
> them over.
>
> Cheers
> Serge
>

Do you know which files need to be copied and in which CAB file they
are?

TIA.

Kind regards, Gert

Where is the HTML doc fixpack? Nice to know the new features.



SR> The download of FP7 is good. It's presence will be published shortly.
SR> Feel free to download and use it.

SR> Cheers
SR> Serge

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Serge Rielau <srielau@ca.eye-bee-em.com> wrote in message news:<412b75c0_3@news3.prserv.net>...
> The download of FP7 is good. It's presence will be published shortly.
> Feel free to download and use it.
>
> Cheers
> Serge

Serge -

If all the FP7 images are good I still don't understand why they are
all significantly smaller than the corresponding FP6 images. Is FP6 a
pre-req for FP7?

Perry Shindle

Perry Shindle wrote:

> Serge Rielau <srielau@ca.eye-bee-em.com> wrote in message
> news:<412b75c0_3@news3.prserv.net>...
>> The download of FP7 is good. It's presence will be published shortly.
>> Feel free to download and use it.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Serge
>
> Serge -
>
> If all the FP7 images are good I still don't understand why they are
> all significantly smaller than the corresponding FP6 images. Is FP6 a
> pre-req for FP7?

No. You do not need FP6 before applying FP7. You can go directly from
8.1 to FP7 with no intervening fixpaks.

In FP7, much of the online help has been relocated from the base
products to the Documentation product. So it has been removed from the
fixpaks. This is a significant amount of savings for the fixpak.

If you do not install the Documentation product, the default should be
to go to the IBM websites to get the documentation - again, saving some
significant diskspace at the expense of some bandwidth (only when you
need it, unlike the diskspace which is used even if you don't need it
at that time).

To allow significant flexibility, you can install the documentation
inside your intranet, and then point all your admin clients to the
central documentation server - using your intranet bandwidth (which
should be cheaper/faster than internet bandwidth) at the cost of some
centralised diskspace. Or you can install the documentation locally
for the ultimate in speed at the cost of all that local diskspace (on
each machine that needs/wants it). All up to you. Of course this is
documented ... in the documentation. :-)