10.7. Windows Domain Considerations
In almost all production environments, database administrators group users together and grant certain privileges or database authorities to those groups. As you can imagine, this is more efficient than maintaining privileges for each individual user. Given that DB2 does not maintain any user and group authentication information, it is important to understand how the groups are being looked up for the users. Windows domain environments in particular have different types of user groups that warrant some discussion.
10.7.1. Windows Global Groups and Local Groups
For example, a DB2 server is defined on the Windows domain MMDOM, and within the domain, a domain controller is a server that maintains a master database ...
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