Re: DDM and SQL

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Mark

This alphabet soup is crazy, but here goes. DRDA, distributed relational
database architecture, has been around for quite awhile. It generally
allows all the IBM platforms to do SQL with each other. It's part of the OS.

DB2 Multisystem is a licensed product that might be built on DRDA, or on
DDM, or who knows. Someone said, maybe 2 people in the world use it.

I think that DDM connections/sessions are used for communications, but not
for the database work. Could be wrong here.

Vern

At 04:45 PM 10/9/02 -0600, you wrote:
> Hi, Vern:
>
> I think that DRDA might be part of the architecture; I think on
> newer OS/400 releases, it is called "DB2 Multisystem" -- all I know
> is, in ISQL (aka. STRSQL), it "all just works!"... (assuming the
> other machine is configured on the network, etc., and has been
> given a "Database name"... e.g. ADDRDBDIRE, WRKRDBDIRE)
>
> Mark