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Installing the Netezza tools on Windows

About this task

To install the IBM® Netezza® tools on Windows:

Procedure

Insert the IBM Netezza Client Components–Windows into the DVD drive of your client system.
Make sure that you use the client release that matches the Netezza software release of your Netezza system. Do not use Netezza clients to manage Netezza systems that have a different Netezza release.

If you downloaded the client package (nz-winclient-version.zip) to a directory on your client system, change to that directory and extract the package.
Double-click or run nzsetup.exe.
This is a standard installation program that consists of a series of steps in which you select and enter information that is used to configure the installation. You can cancel the installation at any time.

Results

The installation program displays a license agreement, which you must accept to install the client tools. You can also specify the following information:

Destination folder

You can use the default installation folder or specify an alternative location. The default folder is C:\Program Files\IBM Netezza Tools. If you choose a different folder, the installation program creates the folder if one does not exist.

Setup type

Select the type of installation: typical, minimal, or custom.

Typical: Install the NzAdmin program, the help file, the documentation, and the console utilities.
Minimal: Install the NzAdmin program and help files.
Custom: Install any combination of the administration application, console applications, or documentation.

After you complete the selections and review the installation options, the client installer creates the Netezza Tools folder, which has several subfolders. You cannot change the subfolder names or locations.

Bin: Executable files and support files
Doc: Copies of the Netezza user guides and an Acrobat Index to search the doc set
Help: Application help files
jre: Java™ runtime environment files for the installer and uninstaller programs of the Netezza tools
sys: Application string files
Uninstall Netezza Tools: Files to remove Netezza tools from the client system

The installation program displays a dialog when it completes. On some systems, it might prompt you to reboot the system before you use the application.

The installation program adds the Netezza commands to the Start > Programs menu. The program group is IBM Netezza and it has the suboptions IBM Netezza Administrator and Documentation. The IBM Netezza Administrator option starts the NzAdmin tool. The Documentation command lists the installed user guide PDFs.

To use the commands in the bin directory, you must open a Windows command-line prompt (a DOS prompt).