Bye Bye, Control Center! So, what's next?
Starting from DB2 Version 9.7, Control Center tools have been deprecated. In DB2 Version 10.1, Control Center tools and all the related components such
as wizards and advisors are discontinued.
The following Control Center tools
and related features have been discontinued:- Activity Monitor
- Command Editor
- Configuration Assistant
- Control Center and associated wizards and advisors
- Add Partitions launchpad
- Alter Database Partition Group wizard
- Backup wizard
- Configuration advisor wizard
- Configure Database Logging wizard
- Configure Multisite Update wizard
- Create Cache Table wizard
- Create Database wizard
- Create Federated Objects wizard (Also known as Create Nicknames
wizard)
- Create Table Space wizard
- Create Table wizard
- Design advisor wizard
- Drop Partition launchpad
- Health Alert Notification
- Health Indicator Configuration launchpad
- Load wizard
- Recommendation advisor
- Redistribute Data wizard
- Restore wizard
- Set Up Activity Monitor wizard
- Set Up High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) Databases wizard
- Storage Management Setup launchpad
- Troubleshooting wizard
- Control Center plug-in extensions
- Event Analyzer
- Health Center
- Indoubt Transaction Monitor
- Journal
- License Center
- Memory Visualizer
- Query Patroller Center
- Satellite Administration Center
- Task Center
- User interface to access Spatial Extender functionality
- User interface to Visual Explain
As a result, there are commands and response file keywords
for DB2 installation that are
also discontinued. The following associated DB2 commands are discontinued:
- db2am (Start Activity monitor center command)
- db2ca (Start the Configuration Assistant command)
- db2cc (Start control center command)
- db2ce (Start Command Editor command)
- db2eva (Event analyzer command)
- db2hc (Start health center command)
- db2indbt (Start Indoubt Transaction Monitor
Center command)
- db2journal (Start Journal command)
- db2lc (Start License Center command)
- db2memvis (Start Memory Visualizer center command)
- db2tc (Start Task Center command)
In addition, the following response
file keywords are disc
ontinued:- CTLSRV_INSTANCE
- DB2SATELLITEAPPVER
- DB2SATELLITEID
- SATELLITE_CONTROL_DATABASE
- TOOLS_CATALOG_DATABASE
- TOOLS_CATALOG_SCHEMA
What is the replacement for Control Center tools?
IBM Data Studio and IBM InfoSphere Optim tools
are available to perform similar tasks that you used to perform with
the Control Center tools. These recommended tools provide enhanced
features for those tasks.
The following table shows the recommended
tools to use in place of the Control Center tools.
Table 1. Control Center
tools versus Recommended tools
|
Control Center tool
|
IBM tool
|
|
Control Center
Command Editor
Control Center associated wizards
and advisors
Task Center
User Interface to Spatial Extender
Visual Explain
|
IBM Data Studio
|
| Task Center | IBM Data Studio with Data Studio Web Console |
| Health Center | IBM Data Studio Web Console
|
Activity Monitor
Event Analyzer
Memory Visualizer
Query Patroller Center
| IBM InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager
|
| Configuration assistant | IBM InfoSphere Optim Configuration Manager
|
For details, refer
Resources
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