A quick tour of geodatabases in IBM DB2

Enterprise geodatabases are collections of tables, views, and stored procedures inside a database management system (DBMS). IBM DB2 is one such DBMS in which you can store your geodatabase.

You can create a geodatabase in your existing DB2 database and continue to store your nongeodatabase data alongside geodatabase data. You can view and publish both types of data in ArcMap, but only geodatabase data can be edited in ArcMap.

NoteNote:

If your database contains geodatabase system tables, ArcGIS considers it a geodatabase. Therefore, even if you are connecting to tables that are not registered with the geodatabase, ArcGIS client and geodatabase release compatibility rules still apply.

There are differences in how data is stored and accessed in the supported DBMSs, which affect how you interact with the database and the geodatabase objects in it. For this reason, administration help topics have been grouped into sections based on the DBMS. This section of the help provides information on administering an enterprise geodatabase in DB2. If you access a topic by way of the search, be sure you are reading the topic that applies to the DBMS you are using.

The "Geodatabases in DB2" section of the help is organized as listed here. Links take you to a topic in that subsection of the help.

11/6/2014