Federated systems and DB2 pureScale

DB2® for Linux, UNIX, and Windows introduced the DB2 pureScale® Feature in Version 9.8. In Version 10, Federation Server functions are integrated with the DB2 pureScale environment.

You can use federation with DB2 pureScale to take advantage of the availability and scalability that the DB2 pureScale feature offers. For detailed information about the pureScale Feature, see Introduction to the IBM DB2 pureScale Feature.

Federation functions can operate on any member of a DB2 pureScale instance. Those functions include the majority of functions that federation supports such as insert, update, and delete operations, and stored procedures.

With automatic client reroute and workload balancing, every member of a DB2 pureScale instance can run federated statements. It is important to install client libraries on all DB2 pureScale members.