Quick Beginnings

Related Products

The following products work together with DB2 Universal Database.

DB2 Relational Connect

DB2 Relational Connect gives you the ability to access federated data by joining DB2 data with Oracle data within a query. It works under DB2 UDB Enterprise Edition or Enterprise - Extended Edition on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and AIX.

DB2 Warehouse Manager

DB2 Warehouse Manager provides a warehouse or data mart administrator with enhanced management capabilities. It provides the ability to manage the process of moving data as well as manage the ad hoc query workload going against the warehouse or mart. This product includes:

• Warehouse agents, which manage the flow of data between sources and warehouse targets.
• Warehouse transformers, which clean and transform data moving into the warehouse.
• An integrated business information catalog, which guides users to the data that they want.
• Metadata interchange with end-user repositories and CASE tools.
• A sophisticated query management and workload distribution tool, DB2 Query Patroller, which was previously a separate product. In order to use Query Patroller, you must have a Query Patroller server installed. Query Patroller client support is only available with a DB2 Administration Client. For more information, refer to DB2 Query Patroller Administration Guide.

This product is available for DB2 UDB Enterprise Edition and Enterprise - Extended Edition systems.

DB2 OLAP Server

DB2 OLAP Server provides fast, intuitive online analytic processing of data to afford users quick access to information. OLAP servers process multidimensional requests that calculate, consolidate, and retrieve information from multidimensional and relational databases.

With DB2 OLAP Server you can:

• Build analytical applications using built-in math, financial and statistical functions to define data in multidimensional cubes.
• View multidimensional data from various perspectives.
• Dynamically add new data dimensions, modify dimensional hierarchies, and change calculations.
• Use spreadsheets and web browsers as clients to analyze data without using separate SQL queries.
• Ensure data security by defining levels of access for individuals.

The OLAP Starter Kit, which supports only three concurrent users, is installed with DB2 Universal Database. You can later upgrade the OLAP Starter Kit to the full DB2 OLAP Server product.

Intelligent Miner

The Intelligent Miner family consists of two products:

• DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data extracts valuable information from a large quantity of data in a relational database.
• Intelligent Miner for Text works with unstructured information, such as text files, email, and web pages.

DB2 Spatial Extender

DB2 Spatial Extender lets you integrate geographical data with your existing business data. It includes:

• Data types such as points, lines, and polygons
• Functions such as area, endpoint, and intersect
• An indexing scheme for spatial data

This product is available for DB2 UDB Enterprise Edition and Enterprise - Extended Edition systems.

DB2 Net Search Extender

DB2 Net Search Extender contains a DB2 stored procedure that adds the power of fast full-text retrieval to Net.Data, Java, or DB2 CLI applications. It offers application programmers a variety of search functions, such as fuzzy search, stemming, boolean operators, and section search. Searching using DB2 Net Search Extender can be particularly advantageous in the Internet, when search performance on large indexes and scalability according to concurrent queries are important factors.

DB2 Data Links Manager

DB2 Data Links Manager provides referential integrity, access control, and recovery capabilities for files that physically reside on file systems external to a DB2 Universal Database. Data Links technology includes the DATALINK data type, implemented as an SQL data type in DB2 Universal Database, which references an object stored external to a database. Data Links Manager is available on Windows NT and AIX systems. On AIX, it can be used with native (or JFS) filesystems, or in Transarc DCE-DFS file server environments.

Tivoli Enterprise

Tivoli Enterprise is a suite of management applications that let you manage an entire enterprise environment, including the data center, distributed systems, and mobile laptops as a single business unit. DB2 has been certified as Tivoli Ready.