Set user information for the DB2 Administration Server

The DB2 Administration Server (DAS) is a special DB2 administration service used to support the GUI tools and assist with administration tasks on local and remote DB2 servers. You must have a running DAS if you want to use the DB2 graphical tools. The DAS assists the administration tools in remote administration, job management and notification.

You can have only one DAS on a computer. DAS is configured during installation to start when the operating system is started.

It is recommended that the user ID or the user name have SYSADM authority on each of the computers within the environment so that it can start or stop other instances if required.

To create a new user, click New user and provide the required information for the instance-owning user.

The User name you specify must be a valid DB2 user ID.

The Group name you type can be an existing group you have defined, or a new group that will be created if it does not exist. The group must be the primary group of the user.

Type the UID if you want a specific UID to be used. Otherwise, select Use default UID to use a system-generated UID.

Enter the GID if you are creating a new group and you want a specific GID to be used. Select Use default GID to use a system-generated or already-existing GID.

The Password you specify:

Note:
The system will generate a password for new user IDs if no password is provided.

The Home directory is used to store all information that pertains to the database instance. You cannot change the location of the directory once it is created. In a partitioned database environment, the instance directory is shared among all partitions that belong to the instance. Therefore, it must be created on an NFS mountable drive that all computers in the instance can access.

The directory can be any valid new or existing directory, although permission problems may arise if an existing directory is used.

Click Existing user to use a user ID that you have created previously.

Click [...] and select an existing User name.

The DB2 Setup wizard will check the user ID, home directory and password for validity. The user ID and password are stored in the operating system security files.