HELP command

The HELP command permits the user to invoke help from IBM® documentation.

This command is not available on UNIX operating systems.

Authorization

None

Required connection

None

Command syntax

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Examples

The following example shows how to use the HELP command:

  • db2 help

    This command opens the Db2 documentation, which contains information about Db2® divided into categories, such as tasks, reference, books, and so on. This is equivalent to invoking the db2ic command with no parameters.

Usage notes

The command line processor will not know if the command succeeds or fails, and cannot report error conditions.