Database overview

DB2 Universal Database™ for iSeries™ shares characteristics with many other implementations of DB2^®. But if you have just migrated to iSeries, you might be wondering how DB2 UDB differs on other IBM^® servers, or you might need to know how IBM's Universal Database compares to other relational databases, and what advantages iSeries brings to database development.

These links should help you understand the various strengths of iSeries as a database platform. They can help you assess which data access methods make most sense for your organization as well as build a rough framework for developing and maintaining your database implementation on iSeries.

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• What's new for V5R4
  This topic highlights changes to the IBM iSeries Navigator for V5R4.
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• DB2 Universal Database for iSeries
  DB2 Universal Database for iSeries is the relational database manager that is fully integrated on your iSeries. Because it is integrated on iSeries, DB2 Universal Database for iSeries is very easy to use and manage.
• Get started with iSeries Navigator
  This tutorial describes how to create and work with schemas, tables, and views using iSeries Navigator.
• iSeries Navigator database tasks
  This topic describes the database tasks you can perform using the iSeries Navigator interface.
• Get started with SQL
  This topic describes how to create and work with schemas, tables, and views using SQL statements in interactive SQL.
• SQL versus traditional file access terminology
  DB2 Universal Database for iSeries provides two access methods for manipulating database tables and data: Structured Query Language (SQL) and system file access methods. They use different words to describe some similar concepts.