Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- IBM DB2 Database Discovery
- Supported Versions
- IBM DB2 Topology
- How to Discover Full DB2 Topology
- Databases TCP Ports Job
- DB2 Topology by SQL Job
- DB2 Universal Database Connection by SQL Job
- DB2 Topology by SQL Adapter
- DB2 Connection by SQL Adapter
- Application Signatures and Plugins
- Troubleshooting and Limitations – IBM DB2 Database Discovery
Application Signatures and Plugins
Application Signatures
The Db2 package has two signatures:
- IBM DB2 on Unix. Discovers the Db2Instance by presence of the db2sysc process. If the port is recognized according to configuration in PortNumberToPortName, it is reported with the service name db2. By default the configuration file for port to name mapping declares 50000 and 6789 ports.
- IBM DB2 on Windows. Discovers the Db2Instance by presence of db2syscs.exe process. If the port is recognized according to the configuration in PortNumberToPortName, it is reported with service name db2. By default the configuration file for port to name mapping declares 50000 port.
Plugins
Additional topology is reported by the following plugins:
- db2_instances_on_windows. Discovers Db2Databases, Db2Instances, and Db2Aliases on a Windows host.
- db2_instances_on_unix. Discovers Db2Databases, Db2Instances, and Db2Aliases on a Unix host.
PortNumberToPortName Configuration
The portNumberToPortName.xml file contains all the possible ports that are used by IBM DB2 Databases across the target discovery range. These ports are named "db2".
