The Technology Explorer for IBM DB2
From db2mc
The Technology Explorer (TE) is a light weight, web based console for DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows. The Technology Explorer strives to be a teaching tool for all users of DB2. Whether you're just starting to use DB2, or have been for years, there are tutorials for you around many aspects of DB2. Part of what makes the TE such a great teaching tool is that it doesn't just explain to you how a system should act, the Technology Explorer shows you, using your database! The TE has a large number of views that show you how your database is actually behaving. All of the views the TE uses to teach you about DB2 can be used individually, making the TE a very powerful monitoring tool as well.
The Technology Explorer is meant to be a tool for you! You can use it, change it, build it. Everything is defined using XML so you don't need to be a computer scientist to make changes.
Some of the key features of the Technology Explorer are:
- Is a light weight web based platform for interacting with DB2 Linux, UNIX and Windows servers
- Is easily expandable and customizable
- Works with DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Version 9.1, 9.5 and 9.7
- Connects to any DB2 data server using only an IP address
- Contains a wealth of content to highlight, demonstrate and teach you about some of DB2's core features
See the demo
You can get a taste of the Technology Explorer for IBM DB2 by visiting db2mc.dfw.ibm.com.
Downloading and installing
To install the Technology Explorer for IBM DB2, you first need to install:
- DB2
- Minimum install requires the DB2 client libraries
- A local database is recommended for tutorials
- Apache HTTP server
- PHP 5.2.x
- The IBM_DB2 PHP driver
- Download the Technology Explorer for IBM DB2 v3.5
- For a complete list of the new and exciting features available in version 3.5, go to our what's new page.
Once you have these components installed, you simply need to unpack the TE zip file into the Apache HTTP server web directory.
Full instructions on getting these components installed are available for:
