Opening a Service Session 

Use

You start the appropriate service kernel for the version of the database software and open a session with the utility task.

The service kernel is a specially configured database instance without a dataset of its own. You can use it to carry out tasks for other database instances, such as backup checks, or restoring the parameter file from a data backup.

Prerequisites

You have the DBM operator authorization Backup.

You are working in script mode or session mode.

Syntax

service_connect

Reply

The system outputs an OK message.

In the event of errors, see Reply Format