Using Catalog Indirection
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Chapter 3 Performing Additional Installation Tasks 3-21
Catalog indirection is divided into two tasks:
• installation
• maintenance
Fully test the Administrative Products without catalog indirection before you
implement it. Catalog indirection is an optional feature that you can
implement only after the product is installed.
Installation
You can install catalog indirection for one or more Administrative Products
on one DB2 subsystem at a time. Implement catalog indirection to create a
copy or view of the DB2 catalog, if you have not previously created one.
Maintenance
You can apply maintenance to catalog indirection on one or more
Administrative Products on one DB2 subsystem at a time. Perform
maintenance if you have an existing copy or view of the DB2 catalog and
have performed a new installation of the Administrative Products.
If you are applying maintenance to catalog indirection, you must specify the
synonym qualifier that is currently the owner of the products’ synonyms.
This qualifier must be the qualifier that you supplied when you originally
installed catalog indirection for the products. The Install System
automatically sets the qualifier status to USED/REUSE.
Catalog-indirection maintenance does not create any new DB2 objects, but it
does recreate the existing synonyms. Because the Install System
automatically sets the qualifier status to USED/REUSE, the synonyms are
dropped and then re-created.
