Text index administration

In the object tree, below the database object you can see the index object. Click on the index object to view the indexes in the content pane. You can identify the text index objects by the type 'text' in the Type column.

Figure 9. DB2 Control Center
DB2 Control Center

Right-click on the index object and select one of the following commands from the pop-up menu:

Create
This displays a dialog. By selecting Text Index in the dialog, you start a wizard for creating a text index. See Creating a text index for more information.
Filter
This displays a dialog where you can select which index objects display in the control pane view.
Refresh
This refreshes information in the object tree and control pane.

To maintain text indexes, see Maintaining a text index.

Note

To access the instance, database and text index object commands without using the right-click option, click on the Selected menu command and highlight Net Search Extender to access the relevant commands.

Before creating a text index, ensure that you have considered the prerequisites found in Planning.

Other indexing prerequisites include: