Disabling support for rich text and proprietary formats

Support for rich text and proprietary formats can be disabled at any time on the integrated Db2® Text Search servers.

Before you begin

To disable rich text document support for Db2 Text Search servers you must, as the instance owner, run the richtextTool utility with the disable option.


Restrictions

To run the richtextTool disable command, you must login as the instance owner.

Procedure

  1. Log on as the instance owner.
  2. Stop the Db2 Text Search instance service. To stop the service, run db2ts "STOP FOR TEXT". For more information about this command, see Stopping the Db2 Text Search instance service.
  3. Run the richtextTool utility from the Db2 command window to disable support.
    • For Linux® and UNIX operating systems:
      $INSTHOME/sqllib/db2tss/bin/richtextTool disable DB2-install-directory
      where INSTHOME is the instance home directory.
    • For Windows operating systems:
      DB2PATH\db2tss\bin\richtextTool.bat disable DB2-install-directory
      where DB2PATH is the location where you installed your Db2 database server copy.
  4. Start the Db2 Text Search instance service. To start the service, run db2ts "START FOR TEXT". For more information about this command, see Starting the Db2 Text Search instance service.

Results

You have disabled rich text support for a Db2 Text Search server.