The DB2® administration server (DAS) provides support services for DB2 tools such as the Control Center and the Configuration Assistant. If a system does not have a DAS, you can use this command to manually generate it.
The dascrt command is located in the DB2DIR/instance directory, where DB2DIR is the location where the current version of the DB2 database product is installed.
This command is available on Linux and UNIX operating systems only. On Windows operating systems, you can use the db2admin create command for the same purpose.
Root user authority
None
On AIX® 6.1 (or higher), when running this command from a shared DB2 copy in a system workload partition (WPAR) global environment, this command must be run as the root user.