Getting fixes from Fix Central

You can use Fix Central to find the fixes that are recommended by IBM Support for a variety of products, including Data Studio. With Fix Central, you can search, select, order, and download fixes for your system with a choice of delivery options. A Data Studio product fix might be available to resolve your problem.

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Procedure

To find and install fixes:

  1. Navigate to Fix Central, select Data Studio as the product, and then select one or more check boxes that are relevant to the problem that you want to resolve. This site provides download, installation, and configuration instructions for the update installer.
    Optional
    Open a search query in Fix Central for all the available IBM Data Studio fixes.
  2. Identify and select the fix that is required.
  3. Download the fix.
  4. Apply the fix.
    1. Download the fix and then extract it to a temporary directory.
    2. Open IBM Installation Manager and then add the directory where you extracted the fix as a repository.

      For information about adding repositories in Installation Mananger, see Specifying the repository.

    3. Use the Update wizard in Installation Manager to install the fix.

      For information about using the Update wizard in Installation Manager, see Updating installed product packages.

    4. Optional: If you observe startup errors after you install the fix, you can try cleaning the cache by starting the product with the -clean option. For more information about starting the product and the Eclipse start options, see Starting the product and Running Eclipse.
  5. Optional: Subscribe to receive weekly email notifications about fixes and other IBM Support updates.

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