Windows: Creating the server instance

Create a Tivoli® Storage Manager instance by issuing the db2icrt command.

About this task

You can have one or more server instances on one workstation.

Important: Before you run the db2icrt command, ensure that the user and the instance directory of the user exists. If there is no instance directory, you must create it.

The instance directory stores the following files for the server instance:

The server options file, dsmserv.opt
The server key database file, cert.kdb, and the .arm files (used by clients and other servers to import the Secure Sockets Layer certificates of the server)
Device configuration file, if the DEVCONFIG server option does not specify a fully qualified name
Volume history file, if the VOLUMEHISTORY server option does not specify a fully qualified name
Volumes for DEVTYPE=FILE storage pools, if the directory for the device class is not fully specified, or not fully qualified
User exits
Trace output (if not fully qualified)

Log in as an administrator and create a Tivoli Storage Manager instance, by using the db2icrt command. Enter the following command on one line. The user account that you specify becomes the user ID that owns the Version 7.1.3 server (the instance user ID).
```
db2icrt -u user_account instance_name
```
For example, if the user account is tsminst1 and the server instance is Server1, enter the following command:
```
db2icrt -u tsminst1 server1
```
You are prompted for the password for user ID tsminst1. Later, when you create and format the database, you use the instance name that you specified with this command, with the -k option.
Change the default path for the database to be the drive where the instance directory for the server is located. Complete the following steps:
1. Click Start > Programs > IBM DB2 > DB2TSM1 > Command Line Tools > Command Line Processor.
2. Enter quit to exit the command line processor.
  A window with a command prompt should now be open, with the environment properly set up to successfully issue the commands in the next steps.
3. From the command prompt in that window, issue the following command to set the environment variable for the server instance that you are working with:
```
set db2instance=instance_name
```
  The instance_name is the same as the instance name that you specified when you issued the db2icrt command. For example, to set the environment variable for the Server1 server instance, issue the following command:
```
set db2instance=server1
```
4. Issue the command to set the default drive:
```
db2 update dbm cfg using dftdbpath instance_location
```
  For example, the instance directory is d:\tsm\server1 and the instance location is drive d:. Enter the command:
```
db2 update dbm cfg using dftdbpath d:
```
Create a new server options file. See Windows: Configuring server and client communications.