HP Data Protector 6.11 DB2 Integrations Agent Enhancements

• The command omniinetpasswd needs to be run on each node of the partitioned

database, before integrating with the DB2 agent. omniinetpasswd.exe is available in

<OMNIHOME\bin>.

The command should be run as

omniinetpasswd -add <Domain>\<Username> <Password>

<Username> is the DB2 instance username and <Domain> is the domain to which the

DB2 partitioned node belongs.

• Instance user name should always be mentioned in the format <Domain>\<Username>

while integrating the instance with Data Protector or while creating backup specifications

Partitioned database support on HP-UX and Linux

Configuration, backup and restore procedures for partitioned databases are the same as

described in the Data Protector Integration Guide for IBM applications.

Partitioned database support on AIX

Partitioned database support is already available for AIX. The Data Protector Integration Guide

for IBM applications already contains steps to configure, backup and restore partitioned

databases.

Important

For Windows DB2 clients, partitioned database support is available only with a Native Windows

GUI and not with a Java GUI.

Redirected restore of databases which use Automatic Storage option

of DB2

Redirected restore of databases using automatic storage is now supported by the Data Protector

DB2 agent. DB2 databases can have containers on automatic storage paths. If redirected restore

needs to be performed for such a database, the following steps need to be followed:

• run util_cmd command as given below before running the restore:

<OMNIHOME>\bin\util_cmd.exe -putopt DB2 <instance> autostorlist <PATH_FILE>

<instance> is the name of the DB2 instance, and <PATH_FILE> is the full name of the file

containing a list of automatic storage paths used for that instance. The file has the format

For partitioned databases, the util_cmd command needs to be run only on the catalog

node

• The file will have one entry per storage path. If a database has 'n' storage paths, then the

file will have 'n' entries with the same DBNAME and different storage paths. In case of a

partitioned database, the storage path should be accessible by all the partitions of the

database. In addition to this, if the database to be redirected has containers which are

not on automatic storage, the steps described in the DB2 integration guide need to be

followed.