AIX stand-alone: Create DB2 database schemas

To create database schemas, we can create a copy of the template SQL scripts and edit this copy to manually create the database schemas. The template SQL scripts should be used as a guide for creating executable scripts and contain invalid SQL syntax.

Before beginning: You should have completed Installing DB2 .

For all databases, use one user with administrative rights on the operating system and the DB2 installation. This user can be the database administrative user created automatically by the DB2 installation program. This user is the database configuration user that will be used for configuration tasks: creating database tables and performing database transfer. T have WebSphere Portal also create the databases, the database user should be given SYSADM rights. You only need to manually create an administrator ID when you do not want to use an existing DB2 administrator ID.

A common user name is db2inst1, but we can assign any user name as long as it has administrative access and follows the limitations listed here. Do not change the user name after creating it.

The user and group names must comply with both the database management system software requirements and WebSphere Portal requirements. The limitations on user names are:

• User names can contain one to eight characters.

• Group and instance names can contain one to eight characters.

• Names cannot be any of the following:

  users
  admins
  guests
  public
  local
  

• Names cannot begin with:

  IBM
  SQL
  SYS
  

• Names cannot include accented characters.

• Create users in an environment that has the same settings as the actual runtime environment.

  For example, avoid creating a user in an English environment if you plan to use that user in a Turkish environment.

Refer to the following locations to refer to the SQL script templates:

Database domain	Location of template
Release	PORTAL_HOME/base/wp.db.impl/config/templates/setupdb/db2/release/createSchema.sql
Community	PORTAL_HOME/base/wp.db.impl/config/templates/setupdb/db2/community/createSchema.sql
Customization	PORTAL_HOME/base/wp.db.impl/config/templates/setupdb/db2/customization/createSchema.sql
JCR	PORTAL_HOME/base/wp.db.impl/config/templates/setupdb/db2/jcr/createSchema.sql
Feedback	PORTAL_HOME/pzn/prereq.pzn/config/templates/setupdb/db2/feedback/createSchema.sql
Likeminds	PORTAL_HOME/pzn/prereq.pzn/config/templates/setupdb/db2/likeminds/createSchema.sql

Parent: AIX stand-alone: Set up DB2 manually