Hi,

my DB: db2V9.5 fp6, Aix 5.3
I have a installed IBM Data Server Driver for ODBC and CLI on a serverA ,
i want to test the database connectivity to a database sitting on ServerB using db2cli. i have my db2cli.ini file initialized with the serverB database details

in V9.7 i saw this command and was able to do a sample test connection.
./db2cli -validate -database <dbname> -connect -user <username> -passwd <passwd>

but the db2cli command in V9.5 info center does not seem to have any info regarding the database connection.

does any one know how do i test sample connection using db2cli command in V9.5?

Thanks.

Why do you think you need to use db2cli? Can't you just connect with the command line processor, db2?

This is just a CLI and ODBC driver installion and not a Data server Client or Runtime client. we don't have db2 installed or instance created.
the advantage of using this driver is there is no maintenance of db2 instance.