User's Guide

About This Book

This book contains general information about the following IBM DB2 Connect products, formerly known as Distributed Database Connection Services (DDCS):

• DB2 Connect Personal Edition (formerly known as DDCS Single-User).
• DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition, for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, OS/2, and Windows NT (formerly known as DDCS Multi-user Gateway).

This book is intended for programmers and administrators who are responsible for setting up and maintaining DB2 Connect connections between DB2 Universal Database clients and any of the following DRDA application server database management systems:

• DATABASE 2 for OS/390 (DB2 for OS/390) Version 5
• DATABASE 2 for MVS (DB2 for MVS) Version 3 or higher
• DATABASE 2 for VSE and VM (DB2 for VSE & VM)
• DATABASE 2 for AS/400 (DB2 for AS/400)
• Any other relational database management system that implements Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) application server function.

Notes:

1. DB2 Universal Database Version 5.0 does not require DB2 Connect in order to function as a DRDA application server.

2. DB2 for OS/390 Version 5.1 or higher is required in order to use DRDA Level 3 functions, including TCP/IP database connections, and stored procedures with multi-row answer sets.

This book explains concepts that are applicable to both DB2 Connect products. For information about a specific platform (for example, OS/2, AIX, or HP-UX), refer to either:

• DB2 Connect Personal Edition Quick Beginnings
• DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition Quick Beginnings.

This book also describes features of IBM DB2 Connect products and provides general information about setting up connections to DRDA server databases. In order to fully understand the configuration and communication protocols, you should be familiar with Systems Network Architecture (SNA) protocols, TCP/IP, DRDA, and your DRDA server operating system.

DB2 Connect is part of the DB2 Universal Database family of products.

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