CONNX and DB2 Module
With CONNX, users can access and manipulate data and metadata stored in DB2 system catalogs. This information is used by front-end applications like Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, and Impromptu. Some of the possible implementations for this functionality include data migration, data warehousing, and application development.
CONNX supports dynamic SQL access to DB2 hosts, as well as pre-bound static SQL statements accessible through the ODBC API. This approach provides enhanced security options and improved performance for production applications, and is completely transparent to the end user or developer.
The use of the ODBC API also enables invocation of stored procedures created with compiled or interpreted host code, such as C/C++, Java, RPG, Cobol, PL/I, or Assembler.
CONNX can use either TCP/IP or SNA LU 6.2 to access DB2 databases. Importing procedures for both TCP/IP and SNA (Systems Network Architecture) users are described in this section.