Example: Spiffy Corporation distributed relational database

 

The Spiffy Corporation is used in several IBM^® manuals to describe distributed relational database support. In this topic collection, this fictional company has been changed somewhat to illustrate i5/OS^® support for DRDA^® in a network of System i™ products.

Examples used throughout this topic collection illustrate particular functions, connections, and processes. These might not correspond exactly to the examples used in other distributed relational database publications but an attempt has been made to make them look familiar.

Though the Spiffy Corporation is a fictional enterprise, the business practices described here are modeled after those in use in several companies of similar construction. However, this example does not attempt to describe all that can be done using a distributed relational database, even by this example company.

• Spiffy organization and system profile
  Spiffy Corporation is a fictional national product distributor that sells and services automobiles, among other products, to retail customers through a network of regional offices and local dealerships.

• Business processes of the Spiffy Corporation Automobile Service
  The Spiffy Corporation automobile division has business practices that are automated in this distributed relational database environment.

• Distributed relational database administration for the Spiffy Corporation
  Spiffy Corporation requires that each dealership have one or more System i products and that those systems must be available to the network at certain times.

 

Parent topic:

Introduction to distributed database programming