You should use this book if you want to develop applications on one of the currently supported UNIX platforms for DB2 Universal Database Version 5.2. You may use embedded SQL, the DB2 CLI, or JDBC to access DB2 databases, or DB2 APIs to create administrative programs.
In order to use this book, you should know one or more of the supported programming languages on the UNIX platform you will be using. These languages are listed in "Supported Software by Platform".