Re: DB2 connect server

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's necessary for 2-tier situations.  For example, if you have Node.js on
Amazon EC2 Linux and desire to connect to DB2 for i then you'd need
DB2Connect.  If you run your Node.js directly on IBM i in PASE (1-tier)
then you can use the database adapter/driver IBM provides.

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Matt Olson <Matt.Olson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does anyone know what the purpose of the DB2 Connect server is? Why add a
> link (single point of failure) in the chain and an extra hop in your
> database access?
>
> Matt
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