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Text Extender: Administration and Programming


Chapter 7. Administration commands for the client

This chapter describes the syntax of the administration commands for the client. Client administration consists of tasks you must do before you can begin searching in text documents, and maintenance tasks. Chapter 4, Administration describes how to use these commands.

Before you use these commands, start the Text Extender command line processor by entering the command db2tx. It puts you into an interactive input mode in which all subsequent commands are interpreted as Text Extender commands. Normally, you would start the command processor at the same time as you start DB2.

To leave this mode, enter QUIT.

As in DB2, you can issue commands directly from the operating system prompt by prefixing them with db2tx, and you can include command line processor requests in a shell script command file.
Tip

A command prefixed with db2tx causes a connection to be made to the default database specified in the environment variable DB2DBDFT. The following sequence of commands does not enable the database MYDATABASE, but instead enable the default database.

db2tx "CONNECT TO MYDATABASE"
db2tx "ENABLE DATABASE"


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