IBM DB2
Connect
DB2 Connect enables company's host data to become directly available to Personal Computer and LAN-based workstations. It connects desktop and palm-top applications to the company's mainframe and minicomputer host databases, leveraging enterprise information no matter where it is.
DB2 Connect provides the application enablement and robust, highly scalable communication infrastructure for connecting Web, Windows, UNIX, Linux, and mobile applications to z/OS and AS/400 data.
DB2 Connect:
- Seamlessly connects popular desktop applications to S/390 and AS/400 data
- Enables fast, secure access to legacy data through intranets, extranets or the public Internet
- Integrates new Web-based applications with existing core business applications
- Provides the performance, scalability, reliability and availability needed for the most demanding e-commerce, CRM, BI, and ERP applications
- Provides extensive application programming tools for developing client-server and web applications using industry standard APIs such as ODBC, ADO, OLE DB, JDBC, SQLJ, DB2 CLI and Embedded SQL
- Allows organisations to build new Internet applications and extend existing applications such as data warehousing, data mining, OLTP and OLAP to the Web
- Integrates with both Java and Microsoft models for developing new Web-based applications
- Energizes mobile PC users and users of the new pervasive computing devices with reliable, up-to-date data from S/390 and AS/400 database servers DB2 Connect is included in many of the DB2 UDB products
- DB2 Personal Developer's Edition provides all the tools for one software developer to develop desktop business tools and applications including DB2 Connect
DB2 Connect’s core features include:
- Robust and high performance data connectivity
DB2 Connect exploits the high performance, in-memory, network data transfer mechanism called Hipersockets to offer high throughput and low latency data transfer between Linux on zSeries partitions and partitions running DB2 on z/OS. In addition, DB2 Connect on Linux enables customers to deploy highly reliable connectivity to host data by exploiting the IBM zSeries availability features such as SYSPLEX and DB2 for z/OS data sharing support to help provide uninterrupted access to data for client-server and web applications. Version 8.2 provides additional facilities to ensure continuous availability of the DB2 Connect communication servers through a feature called "Automatic Client Re-route". The automatic client re-route feature allows client applications to recover from a loss of communication with the DB2 Connect server so that they can continue to work with minimal interruption. - Tight integration with the popular integrated application development
Maximum ROI and lower labour costs can be achieved with superior developer productivity and the flexibility of open standard APIs, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Web Services and seamless integration with the key development environments for both Java and Microsoft .NET platforms. - Agile deployment and administration
The Health Center is designed to provide administrators with ability to perform exception based monitoring of the health of the DB2 Connect servers. DB2 Connect administrators can identify health indicators that they wish to monitor and set threshold values for these parameters. When these threshold vales are reached, health center can notify administrators or execute actions that the administrator has predefined. - Server consolidation
DB2 Connect for Linux running on zSeries can give you the ability to rein in server sprawl through consolidation. By exploiting zSeries virtualisation capabilities, the system administrators can consolidate Linux servers within the enterprise onto a single server and allocate resources for the DB2 Connect servers by deploying virtual servers on demand.
Business Benefit:
- Minimised downtime through reliable, high performance data connectivity
- Maximised ROI and reduced labour costs are realised through seamless integration with the key development environments for both Java and Microsoft .NET platforms
- Reduced cost of ownership and minimised startup investment are delivered through the autonomic focused, easy to use Health center
- Increased administration agility is realised as DB2 Connect administrators are given the power to identify health indicators they wish to monitor and define values for these parameters to notify administrators or execute predefined actions
- Improved consolidation as server sprawl is reduced and virtual servers deployed on demand
DB2 Connect is available in five different editions: