DB2 Connect

DB2 Connect™ for Linux™, UNIX®, and Windows™ delivers new features that address the needs of today's businesses, whether those needs are integrating business data across your organization, reducing IT costs, focusing limited IT resources on creating business value, or providing a secure and resilient information management system for your company's valuable information assets.

DB2 Connect is designed to leverage your enterprise information no matter where it is stored. For those enterprises that have made DB2® on IBM eServer® zSeries® and iSeries™ servers the cornerstone of their On Demand Business solution, DB2 Connect provides application enablement and a robust, highly scalable communications infrastructure for connecting Web, Windows, UNIX, Linux, and mobile applications to data.

DB2 Connect is the industry-leading solution integrating zSeries, iSeries, and other enterprise data with client/server, Web, mobile, and service-oriented architecture applications. The new release of DB2 Connect delivers significant feature enhancements to improve programmer productivity, provide a more robust infrastructure, and enable the deployment of DB2 technology.

Simplify application development

An enhanced set of application development tools simplifies database application development and eases application deployment, including a new Developer Workbench and enhanced functionality for Visual Studio 2005. DB2 also introduces a unified debugger, rapid application deployment with a lightweight runtime client, and many other features that allow you to save time and develop applications that work across different DB2 data servers. Also, significant enhancements to the IBM DB2 Driver for JDBC and SQLJ have been made that keep developers on the leading edge of Java™ technology. Improvements to DB2 Connect federation capabilities simplify the programming challenge by adding support for two-phase commit capabilities for multi-vendor data sources.

Reduce administration costs with advances in performance, manageability, and installation

IBM continues to simplify deployment of DB2 Connect. With new features such as nonadministrator installation on Windows, response file installation enhancements, and support for coexistence of multiple copies of the DB2 database system, DB2 Connect allows your IT staff to spend more time supporting your business needs instead of installing and deploying database systems.

Autonomic features such as adaptive self-tuning memory allocation and new Object Maintenance Policy wizards for DB2 UDB for z/OS® reduce the time required to administer and tune your database system.