Wednesday, September 22, 2010

IBM DB2 Data Server Client 9.7 aka DB2 Connect Personal Edition

MSI based installation (IBM Data Server Client.msi) but controlled by a setup.exe which does various other things as well as calling the MSI.  No apparent way to control the MSI directly via a command line AND get a successful install.  Run Setup.exe /? to see the command line help. 

Run the setup manually to create a response file (does this during the interactive install) then use /u <response file> to do a silent install.

see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.luw.qb.server.doc/doc/t0007299.html

"IBM Data Server Client.msi" which is the name of the MSI might look misleading.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.swg.im.dbclient.install.doc/doc/r0011957.html
This page of the IBM Data Server Client discusses the setup accepting MSI command line parameters but this does not work with the DB2 Connect Personal Edition media referred to above. Confused I was.