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<h1 class="topictitle1">Manage database files</h1>
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<div><p>These topics discuss how to maintain control of database files
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on your system by managing the files, their descriptions and attributes. Information
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about how to maintain control over your data to protect it from loss, how
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to ensure data integrity with constraints, and how to set up trigger events
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when the data changes is included.</p>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbafofileop.htm">Basic operations for managing database files</a></strong><br />
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These topics describe two basic operations for managing database files: copying a file and moving a file.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbafomngmbr.htm">Manage database members</a></strong><br />
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These topics describe the basic operations for managing database file members. Member operations unique to physical files are also included.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbafoxreff.htm">Use database attribute and cross-reference information</a></strong><br />
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The <span class="keyword">iSeries™</span> integrated
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database provides file attribute and cross-reference information.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbafochgfile.htm">Change database file descriptions and attributes</a></strong><br />
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These topics discuss how to change the database file descriptions and attributes. Considerations for changing fields in a file description are also included.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbaforzahfpra.htm">Recover and restore your database</a></strong><br />
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These topics discuss the <span class="keyword">iSeries™</span> functions
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of recovering or restoring your database after the system loses
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data.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbafochsrc.htm">Use source files</a></strong><br />
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These topics describe how to enter and maintain data in a source file and how to use that source file to create another object (for example, a file or program) on the system.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbaforzahfcoa.htm">Control the integrity of your database with constraints</a></strong><br />
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A <em>constraint</em> is a restriction or limitation
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placed on a file to ensure that the data in your database remains consistent
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as you add, change, and remove records. These topics describe how to use constraints
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to ensure data consistency.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbaforzahfrca.htm">Ensure data integrity with referential constraints</a></strong><br />
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These topics discuss how to use referential constraints in your database to ensure that it contains only valid data.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbaforzahftra.htm">Trigger automatic events in your database</a></strong><br />
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<span><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />A <em>trigger</em> is a set of actions that run
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automatically when a specified change or read operation is performed on a
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specified database file. On <span class="keyword">iSeries™</span>,
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you define a set of trigger actions in any supported high-level language.<img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></span></li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rbafomulsys.htm">Database distribution</a></strong><br />
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<span class="keyword">DB2<sup>®</sup> Multisystem</span>, a separately
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priced feature, provides a simple and direct method of distributing a database
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file over multiple systems in a loosely-coupled environment.</li>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbafokickoff.htm" title="This database programming topic contains information about the DB2 Universal Database for iSeries (DB2 UDB for iSeries) database management system, and describes how to set up and use the database on iSeries servers using traditional system interfaces.">Database programming</a></div>
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