DB2 Common Server

IBM Software

Related Products

End Users

Lotus Approach is a powerful, intuitive database interface that can extend DB2's value with query, reporting, application development, and data analysis features.

Related products for end users, application developers, and database administrators are designed to work with DB2 Common Server.

Application Developers

VisualAge Generator lets you develop graphical user interface clients for OS/2 and Windows 3.1, test applications in a single integrated facility, and generate applications that run in both server and workstation environments.

PL/I Family products provide tools to enable a visual programming environment to build new applications and to support existing applications. PL/I products contain a built-in precompiler that works with the DB2 Software Developer's Kit.

Visual Age is an object-oriented application development environment and tools suite that's ideal for creating client/server applications with very complex graphical interfaces.

IBM Smalltalk is a standards-compliant, integrated language and development environment to rapidly develop applications for OS/2 and Windows.

DataBasic is a development environment and scripting language designed to help programmers and end users create high-performance, portable client/server applications for the DB2 database family.

DB2 Extenders define large object data types and related functions that allow your applications to access and retrieve documents, photographs, music, movie clips, or fingerprints.

DB2 World Wide Web Connection enables easy development of Web applications that access DB2 databases, without the need for complex programming, data encapsulation, or database reformatting.

Database Administrators
DataJoiner provides transparent, optimized access to data distributed across multiple vendor data sources (for example, IBM, SYBASE, and Oracle) through a single SQL dialect, effectively allowing businesses to work with all their data as though it were in just one big database. Data Replication products address operational, informational, and administrative requirements for data replication.	DataHub for OS/2 and Unix platforms lets you manage your client/server environment from a single control point that consists of an easy-to-use graphical interface. ADSM is a family of client/server storage management products that provide backup and archive functions for workstations and LAN file servers.

The DB2 family also includes server products that use the same basic architecture for all sizes of enterprises.

Other DB2 Server Products
DB2 Parallel Edition is a DB2 Common Server product that extends DB2's database quality, functionality, reliability, and robustness to the parallel environment. DB2 for MVS/ESA runs on a System/390 and is used for mission-critical applications involving large amounts of enterprise data accessed from many corporate locations.	DB2 for OS/400 enables an AS/400 host to operate equally well with centralized database applications, or to act as a database server in a heterogeneous client/server network. DB2 for VSE and VM (SQL/DS) lets you store large amounts of enterprise data, and can be used as a server with a number of clients on the workstation platforms.