Step 1: Adjust the windows code page

Important: This step is only needed if you use ProcMan with a DB2 Database.

At first, the windows code page should be changed on the target system in order to make sure that the communication with a DB2 database works without problems.

The environment variable DB2CODEPAGE=1208 has to be set on the ProcMan server before the installation of ProcMan can be started. This informs DB2 Client that all strings passed to the database are already UTF-8 encoded and there is no need to encode it again, to store them into tables using UTF-8 encoding. Otherwise the strings inserted into the database tables become longer than expected and eventually cause errors because they exceed the maximal length of database table columns.

There are possible 2 options to do that:

Option A

Use the windows search bar and search for "environment". Open the "Edit environment variables" app. Now click on "environment variables", a new window should appear. In the lower window ("system variables") change the value of the variable "DB2CODEPAGE" to 1208. If the variable doesn't exist, you have to create a new one.

Option B

Open the CLI, and use the commaned set. All defined environment variables should be shown now. In order to change the value of the variable "DB2CODEPAGE" to 1208, execute

set DB2CODEPAGE=1208

To check if the variable was successfully set, type in the command

set DB2CODEPAGE