You should use this book if you want to develop applications on one of the currently supported UNIX platforms for DB2 Universal Database Version 5. You may use embedded SQL, the DB2 CLI, Java applications or Java applets to access DB2 databases, or DB2 APIs to create administrative programs.
In order to use this book, you should know one or more of the supported programming languages on any of the supported UNIX platforms listed in "Supported Software by Platform".