Re: SQL Join files between partitions.

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since IBM as chosen not to give DB2 on the iSeries even the most basic
of federation capability, you can't do what you want within just the
i.

What you can do, purchase the DB2 Federation Server (new name IBM
InfoSphere Federation Server?) to run on a LUW box.  Within that you
can link to FileA1 on LPAR A and FileB1 on LPAR B.

Then back on the i, you can connect to the Fed Server DB, and run your query.

Seems silly to me to have to send the local data out of the box just
to receive it back, but that's your only option at this point.

I think there's some similar 3rd party products.

If you're feeling adventurist, you could look at using  Apache Derby
http://db.apache.org/derby/ as some sort of local to the i Federation
service.

Have fun!
Charles

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Jim Essinger <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In researching the archives and the books I have on SQL, what I want
> to do does not seem possible, but I though I would ask the GURU (read
> geek) list.
>
> I am running STRSQL on LPAR A, and want to access FileB1 on LPAR B. I
> know that I can CONNECT to LPAR B through a WRKRDBDIRE entry pointing
> via TCP/IP  to LPAR B.  I now want to join FileB1 with FileA1 from
> LPAR A to create a result set.
>
> Can I have two database connections active in the same session?  Is
> there another way to use SQL to get information from both LPARs in the
> same SQL statement?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions
>
> Jim
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