The Spiffy Corporation is used in several IBM® manuals to describe distributed relational database support. In this topic collection, this fictional company has been changed somewhat to illustrate iSeries™ server support for DRDA® in an iSeries server network.
Examples used throughout this topic collection illustrate particular functions, connections, and processes. These might not correspond exactly to the examples used in other distributed relational database publications but an attempt has been made to make them look familiar.
Though the Spiffy Corporation is a fictional enterprise, the business practices described here are modeled after those in use in several companies of similar construction. However, this example does not attempt to describe all that can be done using a distributed relational database, even by this example company.