During the installation DB2® Warehouse, Shell
sharing might be an option. Shell sharing is the
installation of multiple Eclipse-based products into the same package
group. The combined functions of those products appear in the same
Eclipse instance and use the same workspace.
In DB2 Warehouse,
you can share a common development environment with other compatible
Eclipse-based IBM® products.
For example, you can share Eclipse environments with InfoSphere® Data Architect, Optim™ Development Studio, and Optim Database Administrator.
When you run the installation wizard for the warehouse client component
group, you might be prompted to install the product into an existing
package group or into a new package group. This page is only visible
if the installation program finds an existing package group on your
computer. To shell share, choose the option to install the product
into an existing package group.
Note: When you run the installation
wizard for the warehouse client, if you do not have an existing shared
resources directory on your computer, you see the option to specify
a shared resources directory. The shared resources directory has nothing
to do with shell sharing. The shared resources directory is created
to store files that are common across certain IBM products regardless of whether you choose
to shell share. The main purpose of the shared resources directory
is to save space by installing only one copy of files that are used
by multiple products. For example, if Product A and Product B both
ship with an xyz.jar file, and you already installed
Product A, then another xyz.jar file is not
installed when you install Product B (unless the versions of the two xyz.jar files
are different).
For more information about shell sharing and product compatibility,
see Cross-product shared environments (shell sharing)
information about IBM Software on
the IBM support website.