DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 Version 5 is the IBM relational database management system for OS/390 systems. This chapter does not address earlier releases. See Connecting DB2 for MVS/ESA in a DRDA Network.
This chapter describes how to connect DRDA Application Requesters (such as DB2 Connect Version 6) to a DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 Version 5 Application Server, and how to set up DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 Application Requesters to communicate with DRDA Application Servers such as DB2 Universal Database Version 5 on other systems. Throughout this chapter "DB2 Universal Database for OS/390" refers to DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 Version 5.
The primary emphasis of the information in this chapter is on connecting unlike DRDA systems to DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 using SNA network connections. However, DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 Version 5 has also introduced support for database communications using native TCP/IP connections (not using AnyNet), and some discussion of using TCP/IP connections is also included. For more detailed information about using setting up and using TCP/IP connections, please refer to DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 Version 5 Installation Guide, and DRDA Support for TCPIP with DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 Version 5 and DB2 Universal Database Version 6.
For more information about connecting two DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 systems, or more detailed information describing how to define DRDA connections to DB2 Universal Database for OS/390, see the discussion of connecting distributed database systems in the DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 Administration Guide.
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