Software Developer's Kit

The DB2 Software Developer's Kit (SDK) is a collection of tools for programmers to develop character-based, multimedia, or object-oriented database applications. It includes programming libraries, header files, code samples, precompilers, and a complete set of documentation.

Programmers can develop applications using embedded SQL, the DB2 Call Level Interface, and DB2 APIs using many popular programming languages, such as C, C++, COBOL, and FORTRAN.

Applications can run on any client platform with the Client Application Enabler installed.

You can install the SDK on the server where DB2 is installed or on a remote client. The function provided by the SDK is also provided in the DB2 Single-User version. This gives you the choice of having a dedicated application development system or a system that provides an application development environment along with local and remote databases.

The SDK is available on the same platforms as DB2 clients: OS/2, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, DOS, Macintosh System 7, AIX, HP-UX, SINIX, SCO OpenServer, and the Solaris Operating Environment.

Applications developed with the SDK will run an any client platform where the Client Application Enabler is installed, and can access all DB2 servers as well as any other application server that implements the DRDA protocol.

In addition to the development environment, the SDK contains the following components:

* Not available on all platforms.