Data Access Interoperability in the IBM Database Family

this paper, we provide a brief and necessarily incomplete overview of what IBM is doing to address someof the aforementioned challenges. In particular, we describe how IBM's DB2 Universal Database product familyis responding to these challenges in order to provide heterogeneous data access capabilities to DB2 customers.To address the problem of accessing and managing data across multiple databases and database systems, the DB2family includes DataJoiner technology; this technology provides...