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Figure 3-6 DB2 Information Integrator on a Windows platform
3.4.3 Configuring the federated system
The DB2 federated server allows you to access and join data from relational and
non-relational data sources. By setting the database manager configuration
parameter FEDERATED to YES, the DB2 instance (without DB2 II) allows federated
access to other DB2 sources, Informix, and any OLE DB source as shown in
Figure 3-5.
Figure 3-7 highlights the basic steps involved in configuring the federated
system. Some of these steps may be optional depending upon the data source
being configured. Most of the steps to configure access ...