Hi there folks.

I've been given the task of looking at the disk format (on Windows)
for DB2 backups. We need this format to write a porting tool of
sorts.

Can anyone point me in the direction of this information (if it
exsits).

Thanks very much.

Peter Nunn

As far as I know it isn't documented.

Peter Nunn wrote:

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Anton Versteeg
IBM Certified DB2 Specialist
IBM Netherlands

Thanks for this Anton,

I guess I'm not surprised that its not documented.. Don't suppose you
(or anyone else) knows if there is a site that has cracked the format
though?

Thanks.

Peter.

Anton Versteeg <anton_versteeg (AT) nnll (DOT) iibbmm.com> wrote:

Peter Nunn <pnunn (AT) pncomputing (DOT) net> wrote:

What would it be good for? If the format changes in the future (maybe even
in a FixPak), your application just breaks.

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Knut Stolze
Information Integration
IBM Germany / University of Jena

Thats true Knut, but that's what my client is after, so I just try and
answer his questions.

They already do his with MS SQL it seems.

Peter.

Knut Stolze <stolze (AT) de (DOT) ibm.com> wrote:

"Peter Nunn" <pnunn (AT) pncomputing (DOT) net> wrote

I think what you really want to use is db2look, export and import.

It's not documented and manipulating a database at this level is not
supported by IBM.

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Matt Emmerton
DB2 OLTP Performance
IBM Toronto Lab