 | Level: Introductory Dwaine Snow (dsnow@us.ibm.com), Senior DB2 Product Manager, IBM Toronto Lab
27 Jun 2006 Learn skills that help you to properly manage your DB2 database servers. This is the first in a series of seven DB2 9 DBA certification prep tutorials that you can use to help prepare for the DB2 V9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration (Exam 731). Objectives - Understand the basic skills of managing DB2 servers, including how to create, drop, start, stop, list, migrate, and update instances.
- Use three methods of configuring DB2 client and server connectivity.
- Manage a DB2 server's access and security.
- Use the Task Center to create tasks that are coded in DB2 commands, OS commands, or MVS shell commands.
- Troubleshoot errors encountered in DB2.
Prerequisites
To take the DB2 9 DBA exam, you must have already passed the DB2 9 Fundamentals exam 730.
If it's available, we recommend that you take the DB2 Fundamentals tutorial series before starting this series. If the Fundamentals series is not yet available, start here.
Although not all materials discussed in the Fundamentals tutorial series are required to understand the concepts described in this tutorial, you should at least have a basic knowledge of:
- DB2 products
- DB2 tools
- DB2 instances
- Databases
- Database objects
System requirements
You do not need a copy of DB2 to complete this tutorial. However, you will get more out of the tutorial if you download the free trial version of IBM DB2 9 to work along with this tutorial.
Duration
Less than two hours
Formats html, pdf
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