(2) In a federated system, a unit of information that identifies a data source to a federated server. This information can include the server's name, its type, its version, and the name of the wrapper that the federated server uses to communicate with and retrieve data from the data source.
See also system managed space (SMS) table space, database managed space (DMS) table space, long table space, regular table space, temporary table space.
CAST(? AS data-type)