Troubleshooting Guide

Using All Available Information

In addition to this manual, the following resources are available to help you:

• For a complete list of DB2 information, see Appendix C, Using the DB2 Library.
• Online help is available:
  • For help with the DB2 graphical tools, use the Help menu.
  • For a description of SQLCODEs and other messages, type db2 "? message" from the command line, where message is the SQLCODE or other message number.
  • For a description of DB2 commands, type db2 "? command", where command is the name of the command.
• For up-to-date bulletins and technical documentation see the DB2 Product and Service Technical Library at http://www-4.ibm.com/software/data/db2/library/ (Note that this information is in English only.)
• For updated information on developing applications for DB2, refer to the Application Development with DB2 Universal Database web site at http://www-4.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/ad/
• Newsgroups and forums are provided on the Internet or from online service providers. See the "Contacting IBM" section at the end of this manual.
• There are IBM redbooks on DB2. Redbooks are "how to", reference, and research books named for their red covers (to acquire redbooks, go to http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/).