8 Moving Data Across the DB2 Family
2.1 Preliminary considerations
There are some basic concepts to consider and decisions to be made before you start
moving data:
Verify that you are copying only clean, consistent, and well defined data.
Before copying any DB2 data, you must resolve all situations where data is in an
inconsistent state. On DB2 for z/OS use the DISPLAY DATABASE command to determine
whether any inconsistent state exists, and the RECOVER INDOUBT command or the
RECOVER utility to resolve the inconsistency.
Furthermore, copying or moving the data is not enough. These operations have as a
prerequisite the copying of DB2 object definitions. And when copying from one DB2 for
z/OS subsystem to another, you must consider internal values ...