
Product Description
Introduction
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Storage Technology's DB2 Manager software product is designed to implement Archive Manager support for storage of table rows using IBM's DB2 relational database management product. Archive Manager is a Storage Technology archival database management product, which primarily uses tape cartridge media for storage of archived objects. Archive Manager also optionally enables disk copies of objects in an Archive Manager database to be retained. The product supplies a range of facilities to optimize the storage and retrieval of objects in an archive database.
Installation of Archive Manager on the host system is a
DB2 Manager uses a separate Archive Manager database for each DB2 table which has been enabled for archival with DB2 Manager.
DB2 Manager enables applications developed to use DB2 as a data manager to extend the range of storage options supported by DB2 to include an Archive Manager database. Version 1.1 of DB2 Manager includes support for all versions of DB2 from version 4 upwards.
Implementation of the product requires no modifications to applications which use standard SQL processing to access DB2 tables. This means that
As is the case for all Archive Manager applications, usage of DB2 Manager to access
There are no functional limitations in DB2 Manager which would prevent its implementation in a manual
Note that a single SQL command issued from an application problem may generate access to multiple rows from one or more tables. In these instances, DB2 will create a temporary table containing the result of the SQL
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