The earner of this badge can effectively & efficiently design, create & maintain Db2 databases using Db2 for z/OS; use Entity Relationship Modeling techniques to design & normalize a relational database, and demonstrate how to define Db2 objects, including Databases, Storage Groups, Tablespaces, Tables, including temporal tables, Indexes, Views, Aliases, Materialized Query Tables & Clone Tables. The earner possesses skills to load, modify, backup, & recover Db2 data using Db2 utilities.