Installing and Configuring DB2 Clients

Chapter 18. Installing Thin Clients on Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstations

With this feature, you can install DB2 Client Application Enabler on a code server, and have thin client workstations access the code across a LAN connection.

Functionally, these client workstations act identically to any other DB2 clients, and can access DB2 servers via the code server. In setup, the main difference is that the DB2 Client Application Enabler code is installed on the code server, and not individually on each workstation. The thin clients need only a minimal configuration to set their parameters and establish the links to the code server. The benefits to this arrangement are:

• Reduced disk space required for each thin client (this feature can save from 22-40 MB per client workstation)
• Easier software changes and updates, since only one copy of DB2 Client Application Enabler is involved.
• In cases where the configuration information is identical for each thin client, one administrator on the central code server can set up and manage node and database access for all thin clients simultaneously.

The potential drawback for this arrangement is a minor loss of system performance, since the DB2 programs are loaded from the code server instead of the client machine.

You can install thin clients:

• Across a network connection, from the code server hard disk (see "Installing Thin Clients using the Code Server").
• Across a network connection, using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) if it is installed on your system (see "Installing Thin Clients using SMS").
• From a diskette (see "Step 3. Make Thin Client Setup Program Accessible to the Target Workstation").

Registry values, environment variables, and configuration parameters control your database environment.

To set up a code server, and use Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) to install one or more thin clients, see "Installing Thin Clients using SMS".

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