Working with change management scripts

A change management script is the set of changes that you want to make to your database. Specifically, a change management script is a script that describes specification resources, change commands, and metadata about how that change will be implemented.

When you run your changes from a change management script, you are issuing commands to change your DB2 database. You use the Change Management Script Editor to work with change management scripts and to deploy the changes to a DB2 database.

Figure 1. Issuing change commands from the Change Management Script Editor.
Issuing your change commands from the change management script deploys your changes to the DB2 database.

The Change Management Script Editor presents a consolidated way to work with changes. With the editor, you can access all of the objects and actions that are relevant to the changes that you want to make.

You can use the Change Management Script Editor to:
Important: To use change management scripts and the Change Management Script Editor, the Database Change Management feature ofOptim™ Database Administrator must be installed, and change management capability must be enabled. For more information, see Enabling change management capability.

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