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Appendix B. DB2 connectivity
In a distributed data environment, DB2 applications can access data at many different DB2
sites and at remote relational database systems.
A company's distributed environment relies on the distributed data facility (DDF), which is part
of DB2 for OS/390 and z/OS. DB2 applications can use
DDF to access data at other DB2
sites and at remote relational database systems that support Distributed Relational Database
Architecture (DRDA). DRDA is a standard for distributed connectivity. All IBM DB2 servers
support this DRDA standard.
DDF also enables applications that ru ...