DB2 Server for VSE: System Administration

The Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) environment provides the architecture for access to data that is distributed across different operating systems. The application requester and the application server do not have to be running with the same database manager.

This chapter discusses:

• Benefits and added responsibilities of a DRDA environment
• Types of distributed access
• Preparing to implement DRDA
• Installing and removing the DRDA code
• Using DRDA
• Creating the DBS Utility on remote DRDA application servers
• Using ISQL on remote DRDA application servers
• Two phase commit processing

Not all extended features are supported by the DRDA protocol. Refer to Appendix G, DRDA Considerations for more details.

For detailed information on Distributed Relational Database Architecture, see the manuals in the Distributed Relational Database Architecture Library listed in the Bibliography.