Windows: Configuring the server instance manually
After installing IBM Spectrum Protect™ Version 8.1, you can configure IBM Spectrum Protect manually instead of using the configuration wizard.
- Windows: Creating the server instance
Create an IBM Spectrum Protect instance by issuing the db2icrt command. 
Windows: Configuring server and client communications
After installing the server, you can set up client and server communications by specifying options in the server and client options files.- Windows: Formatting the database and log
Use the DSMSERV FORMAT utility to initialize a server instance. No other server activity is allowed while you initialize the database and recovery log. - Windows: Preparing the database manager for database backup
To back up the data in the database to IBM Spectrum Protect, you must enable the database manager and configure the IBM Spectrum Protect application programming interface (API).