DB2 Universal Database™ for iSeries™ is the integrated relational database manager on the i5/OS™ operating system.
DB2® UDB for iSeries is part of the base operating system, and provides access to and protection for data. It also provides advanced functions such as referential integrity and parallel database processing.
With DB2 UDB for iSeries, independent auxiliary storage pools (ASPs), or independent disk pools, allows you to have one or more separate databases associated with each ASP group. Databases are set up using primary independent disk pools.