IBM Data Server Client is used for applications using DB2CI, The data server client includes all the functionality of the IBM Data Server Runtime Client, plus functionality for database administration, application development using an API such as ODBC, CLI, .NET, or JDBC., and client/server configuration.
Capabilities include the following:
- Visual Studio tools.
- Application header files.
- Precompilers for various programming languages.
- Bind support.
- Samples and tutorials.
- First Steps documentation for new users.
- Replication tools to set up and administer all replication programs for Q replication and SQL replication.
- The ability to prune the IBM Data Server Client image to reduce the installation image size on the Windows operating system.
- These tools are the Replication Center, the ASNCLP command-line program, and the Replication Alert Monitor tool. The Replication Center is available only on Linux and Windows operating systems.