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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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