Administrator priveleges are required to install and set up the DB2
Information Center daemon, which runs at system startup.  The
Information Center daemon is the process that allows Information
Center pages to be served up to Web browsers.

We're looking into whether we can provide a work around. Technically,
it's not difficult. It involves manually copying the help system code
and content plugins to a directory on your computer, and then running
a script to start the Information Center.  However, the files on the
Information Center installation image can only be read by the setup
program; they can't be easily extracted from the installation image.
Also,  copying files from the publib.boulder.ibm.com server won't
work, since you'd ONLY get the content plugins themselves; without the
help system code, you wouldn't be able to easily view the content.

We are looking at whether we can provide the necessary files on an FTP
site.  There are also some licensing issues relating to the
distribution of the open source elements within the help system that
we'd need to resolve before we can make this happen. We'll post an
update here as soon as we have something we can share.

Allan Risk
Manager, Information Development Infrastructure
DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows
IBM Toronto Laboratory