Getting Started with IBM Data Studio for DB2

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• Manage table data including collecting statistics, reorganizing, importing, and
exporting
• Configure automatic maintenance and logging for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and
Windows
• Create, validate, schedule, and run command scripts
Data Studio gives you the tools you need to become immediately productive on a DB2 data
server while you build and enhance your skills into more advanced database development
and management tasks. You can read more about additional capabilities provided using
data lifecycle management solutions from IBM in Chapter 11.
1.1.1 Data Studio packaging
Data Studio is comprised of three installable images: the full client, the administration
client, and the web console.
• The full client includes all administrative capabilities as well as an integrated Eclipse
development environment for Java, XML, pureQuery, and web services. This is the client
used in this book because it provides the complete client function as well as the ability to
shell-share with other Eclipse-based tools.
• The administration client is a lighter weight subset of the full client designed specifically for
administrators to get up and running quickly and easily. You can do all the exercises in
this book with the administration client except for data web services. Java development,
pureQuery development, data web services development, and some other features are
not included in the administration client. View a list of the differences in features between
the full client and the administration client at
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27022148. Information about installing
the administration client is in Appendix C.
• The web console provides health monitoring, job management, and connection
management. It uses a browser interface, but you can access commonly used tasks such
as viewing database status, listing connection, viewing job history, and so on from the
Eclipse-based clients.
Note:
For more information about how these components work together and how you can
use them in a team environment, see the following topic in the Data Studio information
center:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dstudio/v3r1/topic/com.ibm.datatools.ds.releas
e.doc/topics/getstarted.html