Why Control Center “Personalities”?
The Control Center provides a complete range of functionality and features for all users, regardless of their skill set. For experienced DBAs, or “power” users, all of this functionality presented at all times can complicate navigation of the Control Center and make task execution more inefficient. For example, an ACCPAC business partner is likely to use the Control Center merely to run the Configuration Advisor and create a schema object. Before “Stinger,” this novice DB2 user might have been confused when drilling down the Control Center’s object tree to find the database, wondering what an instance is, and so on. The Control Center before “Stinger” looked like the following figure: Notice how long the object tree under the Databases folder is when fully expanded. It doesn’t even fit on the screen. In DB2 UDB “Stinger,” personalities can be used to simplify navigation and reduce the potential complexity for users who do not need an all-encompassing management tool for their DB2 datab
