Powering the world’s e-business solutions

IBM DB2 Connect

Enabling the enterprise data access you have been missing

Connect any desktop provides a comprehensive, robust solution

Highlights application to enterprise data on the market for workstation access to
Users running desktop applications on IBM IBM DB2 Universal Database™ for OS/390®.
Connect any desktop application OS/2®, UNIX®, Microsoft® Windows® 95,
to enterprise data quickly Windows 98, Windows NT®, Windows 2000 The IBM solution includes:
and easily and Linux platforms can access enterprise
data on hosts and minicomputers as easily • 2-phase commit.
Provide high-performance as if the data were on the same machine or
• Static and dynamic SQL and support.
access from your desktop departmental server. IBM DB2® Connect™
to host databases

Extend the reach of host data

to the Internet

Create e-business solutions

using the tools that come with
DB2 Connect

Develop applications using

Java™, Linux® and other
popular tools, languages
and operating systems

Manage and protect your data

Preserve your current investment

in skills
 Direct access, direct benefits

• ODBC and JDBC, with a special DB2 Connect frees database programmers e-business solutions. You can now
optimized catalog to make access and administrators from spending valuable develop full-function Java applications
even faster. time downloading and exporting data to with fast access to host data.
applications such as spreadsheets and
• Dynamic load balancing using Workload
word processors. With DB2 Connect, they Doing business on the Web also means
Manager (WLM), which can prioritize SQL
can access this data directly. And, end users being able to run Java applets from your
requests submitted by DB2 Connect users.
can employ their favorite software products customers’ browsers. The DB2 Connect
This control over OS/390 priority is extremely
to analyze enterprise data or do mail- Java applets deliver business data to any
important for managing mixed workloads.
merging and database publishing without Web browser without requiring customers
• Monitoring capabilities. assistance from a programmer. to install any software on local machines.

• Host Connection Pooling for For large-scale deployment of DB2 Connect,

improved performance. you can install it on a code server with a zero
Create e-business solutions
footprint on the user’s workstation.
using the tools that come with
• Stored Procedure Builder to easily create
DB2 Connect
stored procedures for DB2 for OS/390.
DB2 Connect implements Distributed
Extend host data to the Internet
• A GUI Control Center for ease of adminis- Relational Database Architecture®
The Internet is now at your fingertips.
tration, performance monitoring and (DRDA®), a standard approach to
Use DB2 Connect with IBM Net.Data®
setup for workstation and DB2 for distributed database connectivity.
to publish host data on a Web server
OS/390 databases. DB2 Connect is all you need to connect
so that users can access it through
directly to DB2 databases on hosts
• Integration with the Windows NT Web browsers.
and IBM AS/400® computers from
performance monitor.
any workstation. You don’t have to go
The DB2 Connect JDBC driver delivers
through intermediate host subsystems,
the promise of Java as the means of
nor do you have to purchase and install
developing platform-independent
additional host software.

DB2 Connect
Enterprise Edition Windows NT
Windows 2000
OS/2
TCP/IP AIX
SNA HP-UX
Sun Solaris
SCO
DB2 for MVS/ESA
Linux
DB2 for OS/390
DB2 for AS/400
DB2 Server for VSE & VM Internet
TCP/IP or intranet
Internet
Workstations: NetBIOS
or intranet
Windows NT IPX/SPX
Web
Windows 95 Named pipes
SNA Browsers
Windows 98 Web
Windows 2000 Browsers
OS/2
AIX®
HP-UX
SCO Open Server Dynamic
Sun Solaris Web pages
Silicon Graphics IRIX Java Applets using Net.Data
Linux

With DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition, you can connect all your client applications to host DB2 data.
 DB2 for MVS/ESA
DB2 for OS/390
DB2 for AS/400
DB2 Server for VSE & VM

TCP/IP
SNA

DB2 Connect
Personal Edition
TCP/IP
SNA
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows 95
DB2 Connect Windows 98
Personal Edition OS/2
Linux

With DB2 Connect Personal Edition, any client application can directly access host DB2 data.

Included with DB2 Connect are the tools You can also use embedded Java You can also use password encryption for
you need to use your enterprise data with SQLJ, or your favorite ODBC- or even better security. DB2 Connect works
for e-business. The combination of JDBC- compliant tool. You can now with various transaction monitors such
IBM WebSphere™ Application Server, create an ODBC- or JDBC-optimized as IBM TXSeries®, IBM CICS® for Open
Net.Data and DB2 Connect enables catalog to improve the performance Systems, Encina and Microsoft Transac-
you to create the foundation for building of dynamic queries. tion Server to allow multiple distributed
powerful solutions and dynamic data-rich objects to participate in transactions
Web pages. Instead of reading that span multiple databases.
yesterday’s reports, your users can Manage and protect your data
access today’s data from any Web Extending business solutions to
browser, anywhere in the world. client/server computing doesn’t mean Preserve your current
gambling with the security and integrity investment in skills
of critical data. DB2 Connect maintains One of the largest investments that most
Develop applications using existing security, backup, accounting, organizations make is in the education
popular tools and languages — and other data management procedures and training of personnel. DB2 Connect
including Java while letting desktop applications preserves the skills of your staff while
With DB2 Connect, you are not limited access host data wherever it resides. putting them on the road to client/server
in your choice of programming environ- DB2 Connect provides users tools to computing. DB2 Connect effectively
ments and tools for developing mission- help make administration, end-to-end transforms host and minicomputer
critical applications. Take advantage of monitoring and multi-site updates easier. databases into enterprise database
your preferred application development servers without the expense of new
system (such as IBM VisualAge® for Java If your password expires on DB2 for OS/390, database systems.
or Microsoft Visual Basic) to build DB2 Connect allows you to change the
applications that work with host data password directly without ever having to
as easily as with data on a LAN. log on to TSO.
 Host databases supported Client platforms supported For more information
• DB2 for MVS/ESA® Version 3.1 • Windows NT (32-bit code) Contact your IBM marketing representative
and Version 4.1 or IBM authorized software reseller
• Windows 95 (32-bit code)
or visit our Web site at
• DB2 for OS/390 Version 5.1 (or higher) http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/
• Windows 98 (32-bit code)
db2connect.
• DB2 for AS/400 Version 3.1, DB2 for
• Windows 2000
AS/400 Version 4 or higher
• OS/2 (32-bit code)
• DB2 Server for VSE & VM Version 5.1
(or higher) • AIX
®
• SQL/DS Version 3.5. • HP-UX

• SCO UnixWare (V5.2)

DB2 Connect products
• DB2 Connect Personal Edition — enables • Sun Solaris
a client station to attach directly to any
• Silicon Graphics IRIX
DRDA-compliant database, including DB2 © Copyright IBM Corporation 2000
Universal Database for OS/390, AS/400 • Linux. IBM Corporation
and DB2 servers for VSE and VM hosts. Santa Teresa Laboratory
555 Bailey Avenue
• DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition — acts Standards compliance San Jose, CA 95141
as a mid-tier gateway server for many • DCE Security services Produced in the United States of America
users requiring host database access. 02-00
• SNMP agent
Complimentary copies of IBM All Rights Reserved
WebSphere Application Server and • X/Open XA AIX, AS/400, CICS, DB2, DB2 Connect, DB2 Parallel
Net.Data are included. Sysplex, DB2 Universal Database, DRDA, Distributed
• X/Open CLI Relational Database Architecture, the e-business logo,
• DB2 Connect Unlimited Edition — MVS/ESA, Net.Data, OS/2, OS/390, OS/400, SQL/DS,
provides unlimited use of DB2 Connect, • ODBC Level 3 TXSeries, VisualAge and WebSphere are trademarks
licensed against a connection to an of International Business Machines in the United
• JDBC Level 1.2 States, other countries or both.
existing DB2 Parallel Sysplex® cluster.
• JDK Level 1.2 HP-UX is a trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company.

Java, all Java-based trademarks and logos and

Server platforms supported • SQL J Solaris are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in
• Windows NT the United States, other countries or both.
• ANSI SQL92 Entry
(Microsoft BackOffice certified)
Microsoft, Windows and Windows NT are trademarks
• SQL3 features of Microsoft Corporation, in the United States, other
• Windows 2000
countries or both.
• FIPS 127.2.
• OS/2 UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States
and other countries licensed exclusively through
• AIX The Open Group.

• HP-UX Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

All other products or product names are trademarks

• Sun Solaris or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

• SCO
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• Linux.
containing 10% recovered post-consumer fiber.

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