Features and Benefits
IBM DB2 Table Editor lets you easily support your business processes, and gives novice users more power through customized task-specific table editing forms. It provides database experts a set of tools to perform ad hoc table editing tasks across multiple databases and platforms. End users need only a browser, making Table Editor an easy vehicle for getting forms-based update capability for all types of users.
Developers:
DB2 Table Editor enables developers to quickly construct new applications, often in just minutes with a drag-and-drop interface. Add buttons, labels, text boxes and controls for containing data and drop-down lists. Behaviors, data sources and data validation rules are assigned to controls from easy-to-use dialogs that require no programming. Applications can be centrally stored for user access at the database server, and periodically updated and improved at will. It then provides users with access to finished applications.
Administrators:
Administration functions enable administrators to set up user groups, permissions for those groups, and time-of-day and day-of-week schedules. Applications can be bound to their respective databases; user groups and permissions for users and groups can be configured. Governing settings are stored centrally at the database server and allow administrators to make entire applications (or just specific capabilities across all applications) unavailable to selected groups.
General Users:
DB2 Table Editor applications are stored centrally at the DB2 server and then launched from any Windows workstation. End users select applications from the catalog of custom forms. Each application presents specific data associated with it at development time. Typical applications include table editing, inventory or product catalog access, order entry, customer invoice retrieval, or query-by-example front ends. Access is available to local or remote locations, including users connecting from any location via the Internet to TCP/IP-supported DB2 databases.
