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Image, Audio, and Video Extenders Administration and Programming


Enabling databases

Use the DBxEnableDatabase API (where x is a for audio, i for image, or v for video) or the ENABLE DATABASE command to enable a database for a DB2 extender.

When you enable a database, the extender:

When enabling a database, you must also specify table spaces to hold the administrative support tables (and their indexes) for the database. One or more of the table spaces that are specified can be a null value, in which case a default table space is used.

You need DBA authority to enable a database.

EEE Only: When enabling a database for an extender in a partitioned environment, the table space you specify should be defined in a nodegroup that includes all the nodes in the partitioned database system. Also, the table space specified should be located in the same nodegroup as the user table.


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