IBM Data Server Runtime Client installation command-line options

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 Identifiers
Language 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:
  1. Generate the response file, by entering the following command: 
    db2rspgn -d <a valid path to store the response file>
  2. 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.
  • For RTCL silent installation method, please refer to IBM Data Server Runtime Client installation command-line options.