DB2 Universal Database

The DB2 UDB family (see Figure 1-4) consists of many different platforms that can coexist in a distributed environment:

  • z/OS or OS/390. This offering is the largest of the DB2 family, often serving as an enterprise server handling some of the largest applications in the world. The System/390 is IBM's largest hardware platform.

  • Enterprise Edition. This offering is often used to build e-business applications and to support large departmental applications. If offers the most connectivity options and can share data with third-party databases and DB2 on heterogeneous platforms.

  • Workgroup Edition. This offering is often used for smaller departmental applications or for applications that do not need access to remote databases on ...

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