After installation, you can add several DB2® tools to the Main menu.
On Linux operating systems,
the following DB2 tools can
be added to the Main menu:
- Check for DB2 Updates
- Command Line Processor (CLP)
- Command Line Processor Plus (CLPPlus)
- First Steps
These DB2 tools can be added
to the main menu automatically or manually. Main menu entries are
created automatically when any of the following DB2 commands are run:
- db2icrt
- db2iupdt
- db2nrcfg
- db2nrupdt.
The
db2icrt and
db2iupdt commands
can be run by both root and non-root user. The
db2nrcfg and
db2nrupdt are
for non-root install and are run by the instance owner.
To see the menu entries you might need to restart the desktop.
The main menu entries are automatically removed when either of
the following commands are run:
- db2_deinstall (only removes the menu entries
for the DB2 non-root instance
when the non-root installation is removed)
- db2idrop.
In addition, you can manually create or remove main menu entries
by running the following commands:
- db2addicons − to add menu entries
- db2rmicons − to remove menu entries.
Before running the db2addicons command, the DB2 instance environment must be
set for the current user. The instance environment can be setup with: Instance_HOME/sqllib/db2profile (for
Bourne shell and Korn shell users), or Instance_HOME/sqllib/db2chsrc (for
C shell users), where Instance_HOME is the instance
owner's home directory.
DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows