WebSphere Federation Server and DB2 Connect

 

WebSphere® Federation Server is a separate product offering that provides access to and integration of data across multivendor data sources, while DB2 Connect™ enables you to leverage the large volumes of data located in existing host and midrange servers.

WebSphere Federation Server helps integrate information by allowing a collection of data sources to be viewed and manipulated as if they were a single source. It makes data source access completely transparent to the calling application. WebSphere Federation Server works in conjunction with DB2 Connect server products. WebSphere Federation Server provides native read and write access to the DB2® family of products, Informix®, Oracle, Sybase, Teradata, and Microsoft® SQL Server databases. WebSphere Federation Server also provides read access to nonrelational and life sciences data sources such as BLAST, Documentum, Entrez, IBM® Lotus® Extended Search, table-structured files, and XML. You can use it to formulate queries on data in a federated system.

Parent topic: DB2 Connect