DB2 Connect provides extremely fast and robust connectivity to IBM mainframe databases for e-business and other applications running under various UNIX and non-UNIX operating systems.
DB2 Connect has several connection solutions. DB2 Connect Personal Edition provides direct connectivity to host or AS/400 databases, while DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition provides indirect connectivity that allows clients to access host or AS/400 databases through the DB2 Connect server. DB2 Connect Unlimited Edition provides a unique packing solution that makes product selection and licensing easier.
DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition enables local and remote client applications to create, update, control, and manage DB2 databases and host systems using Structured Query Language (SQL), DB2 APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), SQLJ (Embedded SQLJ for Java), or DB2 CLI (Call Level Interface). In addition, DB2 Connect supports Microsoft Windows data interfaces such as ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), Remote Data Objects (RDO), and OLE DB.
DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition is currently available for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, OS/2, PTX, Solaris, and Windows 32-bit operating systems. These servers provide support for applications running on OS/2, UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, Linux, PTX, Solaris, Silicon Graphics IRIX), and Windows 32-bit workstations.
DB2 Connect Personal Edition provides access from a single workstation to DB2 databases residing on servers such as MVS/ESA, OS/390, OS/400, VM and VSE, as well as to DB2 Universal Database servers on OS/2, UNIX, and Windows 32-bit operating systems. DB2 Connect Personal Edition provides the same rich set of APIs as DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition, and also features integrated SNA support on all Windows platforms.
This product is currently available for OS/2, Linux, and Windows 32-bit operating systems.
DB2 Connect Unlimited Edition is a unique package offering that allows complete flexibility of DB2 Connect deployment and simplifies product selection and licensing. This product contains both DB2 Connect Personal Edition and DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition with license terms and conditions that allow the unlimited deployment of any DB2 Connect product. License charges are based on the size of the System/390 that DB2 Connect users will be working with.
This new package offering is only available for OS/390 systems and licensing is only valid for DB2 for OS/390 data sources.