DB2 Control Center launch issue on Windows 2008 Server

April 30, 2012 Leave a comment

I came across an issue recently where the DB2 Control Center was hanging when trying to start it on a Windows 2008 Server. The splash screen would appear and then just sit there. Looking at Task Manager I could see a process – db2javit.exe – consuming nearly 100% of the CPU so I decided to kill it before it became an issue (thankfully the server was not in production at this stage) at which point the DB2 Control Center started.

After a couple more tests I discovered that, rather than killing the db2javit.exe process to get the Control Center to load, if I right-clicked on the DB2 Control Center icon and selected ‘Run As Administrator’ it loaded without an issue.

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Incorrect part number for Lotus Connections 3.0 on Windows

March 16, 2011 Leave a comment

A couple of months ago I blogged about the incorrect part numbers for Lotus Connections 3.0 on Linux on IBM’s download page, I’ve also discovered a mistake with a part number for Lotus Connections 3.0 on Windows 64-bit.

The “Download Lotus Connections 3.0” page for Windows lists the following as the part number for WebSphere Application Server 64-bit:

Download 6 of 22 CZFA0ML WebSphere Application Server V7.0 for Windows 64-bit

But the part number CZFA0ML is actually for:

IBM WebSphere Commerce V7.0 – WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0 (64-bit) for Windows Multilingual

The correct part number is:

C1G2JML – IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0 for Windows x86-64 bit, Multilingual

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Installing Lotus Connections on Windows 2008 R2

June 13, 2010 Leave a comment

Having predominately done Lotus Connections installs on Linux I had my first taste of installing it on Windows 2008, after some difficulty with the WAS install I found IBM technote 1408390 (thanks to a blog post by Mitch Cohen) which explained that to overcome the incompatibility between the IBM graphical installer and Windows 2008 you need to change the properties of the install.exe file to “Compatibility Mode” – “Windows 2008 (Service Pack 1).

There is also IBM technote 1405554 that covers an issue with the install of Lotus Connections itself (to do with the compatibility of the “User Account Services”) which can be worked around by right-clicking on the install program and selecting “Run as Administrator”.

P.S. TDI 6.1.1 is not compatible with Windows 2008 and the TDI Profiles import scripts are not compatible with TDI 7.

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