This topic highlights the changes made to this topic collection for V5R4.
In V5R4, Distributed Relational
Database Architecture™ (DRDA®) support has been extended to include the following
functions. Prior to V5R4, this support was disabled over DRDA:
- Distributed transaction processing (XA/JTA). (See Distributed transactions for more information.)
- Server support for profile tokens. (See Security-related APIs for more information.)
- DB2® Multisystem over TCP/IP. (See DB2 Multisystem for more information.)
The following functions are new to iSeries™ in V5R4. They are also supported
over DRDA:- Increased maximum limit of SQL statements to 2 MB.
- SQL descriptor area. (See SQL descriptor areas and SQLDA (SQL descriptor area) for more information.)
In V5R4, three example programs are updated or added in
this topic collection:
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To find other information about what's new or changed this release, see the Memo to users.