To create system RDAREAs, use the following general procedures:

1. Create a system RDAREA in the HiRDB file system area for RDAREAs that you created in 4.3 Creating HiRDB file system areas.
2. For a HiRDB parallel server configuration, create a system RDAREA in a HiRDB file system area for the server machine on which the dictionary server is defined.
3. For details about how to design the system RDAREA, see 8.4 Placing RDAREAs for a HiRDB single server configuration, and 9.4 Placing RDAREAs for a HiRDB parallel server configuration.
4. For a HiRDB parallel server configuration, execute the database initialization utility (pdinit) on the server machine where the system manager is defined.
5. This section only describes the creation of system RDAREAs with the create rdarea statement of the database initialization utility (pdinit). This is because the system RDAREAs are required for HiRDB operation. You can also use the database initialization utility's (pdinit) create rdarea statement to define the following RDAREAs:
   
   • User RDAREAs
   • User LOB RDAREAs
   • Data dictionary LOB RDAREAs
   • RDAREAs for lists