About Net Search Extender

The DB2 Net Search Extender offers a fast, versatile, and intelligent method of searching through text documents. It allows you to search through large text documents at high speed. Some of its features are:

  • Searching for documents that contain specific text or sought-for words in the same sentence or paragraph.

  • Searching for Doing wildcard using front, middle, and end masking for whole words and simple characters.

  • Searching for documents in HTML and XML formats.

  • Searching for words having a similar spelling as that of search terms. This is useful in finding misspelled words.

  • Searching for a free-text, in which the search argument is expressed in natural language.

Note: Currently only some of these features have been implemented.

For using the Text Index Management option, you should install DB2's Net Search Extender.

Installing the Net Search Extender 32/64 bit V8.2.2

For using DB2's Net Search Extender product to retrieve text data, you need to install it on your system.

This task explains the procedure to install the Net Search Extender 32/64 bit V8.2.2 on AIX 5.1:
  1. Log on as root.

  2. Insert and mount the DB2 Net Search Extender 32/64 bit V8.2.2 product CD or extract the installation tar file. Ensure the CD or the installation tar file is not Net Search Extender 32 bit V8.1 installable. CES Database Server 9.1.9 requires the DB2 Net Search Extender 32/64 bit V8.2.2 to be used with DB2 UDB 8.1 Fix Pack 3.

  3. Change to the directory where you have extracted the tar file or CD is mounted.

  4. Change to the directory aix.

  5. Use installp to transfer files from the package to your machine. You can use the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) to run installp as follows:

    a. Enter smit to launch the SMIT interface.

    b. Select Software Installation and Maintenance > Install and Update Software > Install Software.

    c. In the INPUT device / directory software field, specify the directory of the install file. For example, if you have extracted the installation tar file in the directory /tmp/extenders, enter /tmp/extenders/aix.

    d. Click Enter to confirm the installation directory.

    e. In the Software to Install field, enter db2_08_01.db2nse or press F4 to select db2_08_01.db2nse from the list of the available Software to Install.

    f. Click Enter.

  6. Go thorough the other installation parameters and click Enter to install DB2 Net Search Extender 32/64 bit V8.2.2.

  7. Once the installation is done, review the installation log to ensure the installation is successfully completed.