Remote servers and distributed data

Distributed data is data that resides on a database management system (DBMS) other than your local system. Your local DBMS is the one on which you bind your application plan. All other DBMSs are remote.

If you are requesting services from a remote DBMS, that DBMS is a server, and your local system is a requester or client.

Your application can be connected to many DBMSs at one time; the one that is currently performing work is the current server. When the local system is performing work, it also is called the current server.

A remote server can be physically remote, or it can be another subsystem of the same operating system that your local DBMS runs under. A remote server might be an instance of Db2 for z/OS®, or it might be an instance of one of another product.

A DBMS, whether local or remote, is known to your Db2 system by its location name. The location name of a remote DBMS is recorded in the communications database.