Administration clients
Different administration clients are available for the administration of the product: IBM Unified Experience for z/OS and IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator Administration Services.
IBM Unified Experience for z/OS is a multi-purpose web application, which can also be used to administer IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS. Because it is a web applications that comes with its own web server, it is sufficient to install this applications on a single computer within your company network. As long as client workstations can connect to this computer over the network, they can use IBM Unified Experience for z/OS for the administration of IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS.
IBM Unified Experience for z/OS is easy to maintain because updates must be installed in one place only, and need not be rolled out to a number of client workstations.
IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator Administration Services is a z/OS-based REST interface that is provided as part of IBM Unified Management Server for z/OS.
Instead of using one of the supported administration clients, you can also control and operate the product by using Db2 commands and the stored procedures that come with the product.
Launching a function from an administration client causes the client to connect to your data server, which in turn calls a stored procedure that executes the corresponding command on the accelerator. The accelerator is thus always controlled and maintained indirectly via the data server.
In most cases, you do not have to change existing database applications to use IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator. If an accelerator has been properly deployed and tables have been added to the accelerator, queries that come from database applications are usually routed automatically from your data server to the accelerator provided that this results in shorter response times.
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