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Registration of OLE with the regsvr32 command on db2olefn.dll fails when silently installing of DB2 without creating an instance.

Troubleshooting


Problem

Registration of OLE fails for silent install of DB2 with the following error: 1: The "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\regsvr32 /s "C:\Program Files\IBM\sqllib\bin\ibmdadb2.dll"" command finished with error code "0". 1: The "C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32 /s "C:\Program Files\IBM\sqllib\bin\ibmdadb264.dll"" command finished with error code "0". MSI (s) (9C:A4) [15:19:49:883]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=DeferredInstallHotfixCA,,) 1: ERROR:The "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\regsvr32 /s C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\sqllib\function\db2olefn.dll" command finished with error code "3". when no DB2 instance is created. Please note install will be completed successfully even though the above error is reported,

Symptom

N/A

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Document Information

More support for:
Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows

Software version:
9.7, 9.5

Operating system(s):
Windows

Document number:
162185

Modified date:
30 April 2025

UID

swg21502966

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