This parameter is used to override the default setting for the password associated with the ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager (ADSM) product. The password is needed to allow you to restore a database that was backed up to ADSM from another node.
| Note: | If the adsm_nodename is overridden during a backup done with DB2 (for example, with the BACKUP DATABASE command), the adsm_password may also have to be set. |
The default is that you can only restore a database from ADSM on the same node from which you did the backup. It is possible for the adsm_nodename to be overridden during a backup done with DB2.