create table improvements to shell and Java API

[kevinrr888]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
#5990 fixed issues with a couple options for the createtable shell command and NewTableConfiguration (used for creating tables via Java API). This ticket is to implement the follow on work identified in #5990

Describe the solution you'd like
This ticket includes three subtasks:

• Fixes some createtable bugs: #5990 (review). Another related comment under the same scope: Fixes some createtable bugs: #5990 (comment).
• Fixes some createtable bugs: #5990 (comment).
• Fixes some createtable bugs: #5990 (comment)

[kevinrr888]

Re removal of bullet 3: #6012 (comment)

[kevinrr888]

closed by #6012