Federation: DB2 Control Center

The DB2® Control Center GUI allows you to perform most of the tasks necessary to setup, configure, and modify the federated system. The DB2 Control Center uses panels—dialog boxes and wizards—to guide you through a task.

The DB2 Control Center panels contain interactive help when your mouse hovers over a control such as a list box or command button. Additionally, each panel has a help button that provides information about the panel task, and links to related concepts and reference information.

You can either use a wizard to create the federated objects, or you can create each object individually.

Use the DB2 Control Center to configure access to Web services and XML data sources. The features built into the DB2 Control Center simplify the steps that are required for you to configure the federated server to access these data sources.

The DB2 Control Center GUI is the easiest way to perform the essential data source configuration tasks:

Create the wrappers and set the wrapper options
Specify the environment variables for your data source
Create the server definitions and set the server options
Create the user mappings and set the user options
Create the nicknames and set the nickname options or column options

After you configure the federated server to access your data sources, you can use the DB2 Control Center to:

Modify the data source configuration
Monitor the status of the nicknames and servers
Maintain current statistics for your nicknames
Create and modify cache tables
Specify informational constraints on nicknames
Create remote tables through IBM® InfoSphere™ Federation Server using transparent DDL