Chapter 9. Database Communications

This chapter discusses the following concepts related to communications between DB2 clients and servers, as well as between database partitions. These topics include:

  1. Ability to configure a partitioned database on multiple servers

  2. Ability to configure connections to hosts systems

  3. Ability to troubleshoot connection problems

DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a multi-user version of DB2 designed for use in partitioned or non-partitioned database environments. Partitioned database systems can manage high volumes of data and provide benefits such as increased performance, high availability, and failover support.