Getting started with Toad for DB2: Chapter 3 - Database Connections

All right. So now you've got Toad up and running. The first time, you don't have any connections. So what you might want to do is connect to one of your databases. So on the Connection Manager, you could click this button, and this will bring up a dialog that allows you to create a new connection. And this dropdown list lists all your database aliases, all the databases that have been cataloged in your default DB2 client that Toad is using. And you select one of those. You enter login information. And you could click if you want the password saved, if you want this automatically connected upon startup, and if you want to give your connection a color category that will sort of help you identify all the tabs that are associated with this connection. So I'm going to click Connect here. And Toad is going connect to that database. And by default, if you remember, I said display a Database Explorer, and you can see a Database Explorer is displayed listing tables. And that's a good thing. So I'm just going to pin click this to auto hide or pin this Connection Manager window to get it out of the way.