In a partitioned database environment, most communication between database partitions is handled by the fast communications manager (FCM).
To enable the FCM at a database partition and allow communication with other database partitions, you must create a service entry in the database partition's services file of the etc directory as shown later in this section. The FCM uses the specified port to communicate. If you have defined multiple database partitions on the same host, you must define a range of ports, as shown later in this section.
Before attempting to manually configure memory for the fast communications manager (FCM), it is recommended that you start with the automatic setting, which is also the default setting, for the number of FCM Buffers (fcm_num_buffers) and for the number of FCM Channels (fcm_num_channels). Use the system monitor data for FCM activity to determine if this setting is appropriate.
DB2_instance port/tcp #comment
If the services file of the etc directory is shared, you must ensure that the number of ports allocated in the file is either greater than or equal to the largest number of multiple database partitions in the instance. When allocating ports, also ensure that you account for any processor that can be used as a backup.
If the services file of the etc directory is not shared, the same considerations apply, with one additional consideration: you must ensure that the entries defined for the DB2® database instance are the same in all services files of the etc directory (though other entries that do not apply to your partitioned database environment do not have to be the same).
DB2_sales 9000/tcp
DB2_sales_END 9004/tcp