Information Catalog Manager Administration Guide

Chapter 1. Setting up an information catalog

This chapter gives you an overview of all the tasks necessary to set up an information catalog for users. Some of the tasks discussed in this chapter include information about:

• Setting up an information catalog in a LAN environment or as a stand-alone product.
• Authorizing users to an information catalog.
• Defining an information catalog on the various DB2 Universal Database platforms.
• Registering an information catalog that resides on a remote server so that users can access it.
• Ensuring that users can start programs from information catalog objects.

If you plan to use the Information Catalog Manager in a LAN environment: After you install the Information Catalog Manager (see DB2 Warehouse Manager Installation Guide), you perform seven main tasks:

1. Authorize yourself and your users to use your information catalog.
2. When you install either the DB2 Warehouse Manager or the DB2 OLAP Server^(TM), a default information catalog is created on DB2 Universal Database for Windows NT. If you do not use the default information catalog, you can create and identify an information catalog depending on your configuration, as described in Table 1. If you plan to publish and synchronize Data Warehouse Center metadata to the information catalog, you must use the warehouse control database as your information catalog database. For more information about publishing and synchronizing metadata, see Chapter 6, Exchanging metadata with other products.
3. Open the Information Catalog Manager as an administrator.
4. Ensure that users can start applications to access the information that is described in the information catalog.
5. Authorize specific users to perform object management tasks, if necessary.
6. Set the status choices available to users when they create comments in the information catalog.
7. If you have not done so already, create a sample information catalog to help your users learn to use the Information Catalog Manager. (This task is part of the installation process in DB2 Warehouse Manager Installation Guide, and Accessing the Information Catalog Manager sample data.)

Table 1. Creating and identifying information catalogs by configuration

Information Catalog Manager on DB2 UDB for Windows NT server	Information Catalog Manager administrator on client1
Create an information catalog on the server. Register the server node and remote information catalog on client workstations.	Register the server node and remote information catalog. Create the information catalog (by initializing either a new or existing information catalog). Register the server node and remote information catalog database.
Note: Remote information catalogs can exist on DB2 Universal Database for AIX, DB2 Universal Database for the Solaris Operating Environment, DB2 Universal Database for Enterprise - Extended Edition, DB2 Universal Database for OS/2, DB2 Universal Database for OS/390, or DB2 Universal Database for Windows NT.

If you plan to use the Information Catalog Manager as a stand-alone product: After installing the Information Catalog Manager (see the DB2 Warehouse Manager Installation Guide):

1. Create the database that you plan to use for your information catalog.
2. Create an information catalog (users on other workstations will not be able to access this information catalog).
3. Complete steps 3, 6, and 7 from the previous procedure.