The Mobile Devices Administration Center is a tool that allows you to deliver synchronization services to groups of users who have the same needs for access to applications and data. The Mobile Devices Administration Center makes it easier to handle multiple users, because you can define data to be replicated for a group of users, yet make some adjustments to the replication definition for individual users as necessary.
This section explains how to start the Mobile Devices Administration Center and use the interface. It also includes an overview of the steps that you perform to set up mobile data synchronization with the Mobile Devices Administration Center.
To open the Mobile Devices Administration Center and DB2 Control Center For Windows, select Start --> Programs --> IBM DB2 Everyplace--> Start Mobile Devices Administration Center.
To open the Mobile Devices Administration Center and DB2 Control Center on UNIX, change the directory to $DSYINSTDIR/Server, then run dsyadmin.sh.
The Mobile Devices Administration Center is very similar to the DB2 Control Center. This section explains aspects of the interface that you will encounter in the main window and within object notebooks.
Controls in the main window
The main window contains an object tree and a contents pane, as well as toolbars to help you manage objects.
For more information about the Control Center toolbar, see the Control Center help.
On AIX, to view the help file for the DB2 Control Center, open ~/sqllib/doc/html/db2help/index.htm in an HTML browser. To view the help file for the Mobile Devices Administration Center, open ~/sqllib/doc/html/db2help/dsysync/dsyhmsttfrm.htm in an HTML browser.
Entry fields
Required fields in notebooks and windows are surrounded with a red box. Optional fields are surrounded with a blue box. Additionally, the system warns you with pop-up messages when you are entering invalid information.
Accessing custom controls with the keyboard
You can use the keyboard to access controls found on the graphical user interface. The following control may be unique to DB2.
To access this push button using the keyboard, use the Tab key until the push
button is selected then press Enter.