To create user LOB RDAREAs, use the following general procedures:

1. Create a user LOB RDAREA in the HiRDB file system area for RDAREAs, which you created in 4.3 Creating HiRDB file system areas.
2. For a HiRDB parallel server configuration, create a user LOB RDAREA in a HiRDB file system area for the server machine on which the back-end server is defined.
3. For details about how to design the user LOB 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 structure modification utility (pdmod) on the server machine where the system manager is defined.
5. Before creating a user LOB RDAREA, use the pdls command to make sure that HiRDB is running. For a HiRDB parallel server configuration, enter the pdls command from the server machine where the system manager is defined.
6. If HiRDB is not running, use the pdstart command to start it. To start a HiRDB parallel server configuration, enter the pdstart command from the server machine where the system manager is defined.