WebSphere Federation Server tasks

WebSphere^® Federation Server includes IBM^® DB2^® relational database management system, which enables you to interact with a federated system by using the DB2 Control Center, DB2 commands, APIs, Web services providers, and other methods.

• Federated objects
  WebSphere Federation Server uses a wizard-driven approach that simplifies the tasks of setting up, configuring, and modifying the federated system.
• Managing a Federated Database
  WebSphere Federation Server provides a number of features that you can use to administer your Federated System.
• Materialized Query tables for faster query performance
  A Materialized Query table (MQT) can improve query performance by storing the data locally instead of accessing the data directly from the data source.
• Federated stored procedures
  A federated procedure is a federated database object that references a procedure on a data source. Federated procedures are sometimes called federated stored procedures.

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This topic is also in the IBM Information Server Introduction.

Last updated: 2008-09-15