Distributed database programming

Distributed database programming describes the distributed relational database management portion of the IBM® i licensed program. Distributed relational database management provides applications with access to data that is external to the applications and typically located across a network of computers.

This topic also contains IBM i distributed data management (DDM) concepts, information about preparing for DDM communications, and DDM-related programming information. You can use IBM i DDM to prepare a system to access data in remote files and to control access to local files by remote systems.