Bind Utility

Use the bind20 utility included in the bin subdirectory to create packages.

Note: For version 15.0, packages are created automatically on the initial connection to the DB2 UDB server. The Bind utility is needed only to modify the package settings.

The bind20 utility uses the bind options defined in your Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) DSN to configure the package and grant proper ownership and the syntax is:

bind20 db2-dsn

This utility prompts for a DB2 user ID and password, creates the packages, and then reports a final status.

A separate package is not needed for each DRDA access service; however, if an access service has different characteristics in its parameters that suit it for a specific solution, you can create other packages for other solutions.

The examples identify the DSN parameters required and used for DRDA to these targets:

DB2 UDB on AS/400
DB2 UDB on Windows
DB2 UDB on UNIX