DB2 Server for VM: System Administration

Considerations When Defining a Database Machine and Generating a Database

Read this section before carrying out any activities.

Considerations When Adding Directory Control Statements

VM directory control statements are describe on "VM Directory Control Statements". You add them to your database machine to:

• Define its virtual storage
• Enable communications between it and the user machines or gateways.
• Provide links to the service, production, and database minidisks. (The database machine's PROFILE EXEC must be updated so that these minidisks or CMS shared file directories can be accessed.)

Considerations When Loading IBM-Supplied Files

Install all the IBM-supplied files into the production and service minidisks. This loads the full product version to support both a database and your users.

Considerations When Generating a Database

You generate a database by specifying parameters to define its maximums. It is recommended that the first time you do so, you use the IBM-supplied set of predefined parameters called the starter database specifications. (See the DB2 Server for VM Program Directory for instructions on how to generate a starter database.) Once you are familiar with how the starter database works, you should delete it and generate your own. Refer to Chapter 2, Planning for Database Generation.