You can install DB2 Connect Personal Edition Version 6 for Windows 9x or Windows NT on a code server, and have Thin Connect workstations access the code across a LAN connection. These Thin Connect workstations function like any other DB2 Connect Personal Edition workstations. In the setup, the main difference is that the DB2 Connect Personal Edition code is installed on a code server, and not individually on each workstation. Any Thin Connect workstation needs only a minimal configuration to set its parameters and establish links to a code server.
The benefits of a Thin Connect workstation are:
The drawback of a Thin Connect installation is a potential loss of system performance, since DB2 programs are loaded from a code server instead of the workstation. However, any loss will depend on network load, network speed, and code server speed and load.