Converting Quick I/O files to regular containers

VERITAS Storage Foundation for DB2 provides an option to convert your Quick I/O files to regular DB2 containers.

Prerequisites:

Files you want to convert must be Quick I/O files on VxFS file systems or links that point to Quick I/O files.

Note:

Quick I/O is not supported on Linux.

To convert Quick I/O files to regular containers

  1. Make the database inactive.

  2. Select the container in the GUI.

  3. Select the conversion option in the GUI to generate container statistics.

  4. At the prompt, click Yes to convert to a regular container.

  5. In the confirmation dialog, click OK to view the information.