The book is designed to allow easy access to the information needed to develop your applications. The first two chapters contain common information for users who will be developing either embedded SQL, DB2 CLI, JDBC, or DB2 API applications on any of these platforms, and should therefore be read by all users. Chapter 3 contains common information for all those who want to develop embedded SQL applications.
Each of Chapters 4 through 8 gives detailed information for developing embedded SQL applications on one of the supported platforms, except for embedded SQL for Java (SQLJ), which is discussed in Chapter 10.
The DB2 API script file for each supported compiler in Chapters 4 through 8 is noted after the first embedded SQL script file for the compiler is discussed, as these files share the same compile and link options.
Chapter 9 contains common information for all those developing DB2 CLI applications.
Chapter 10 contains common information for building DB2 Java programs. It contains the information needed for developing JDBC applications and applets for DB2. It also covers developing embedded SQL for Java (SQLJ) applications and applets for DB2.
To use this book, a user who wanted, for example, to develop embedded SQL applications on Solaris should read Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 8. A user who wanted to develop DB2 CLI applications on any of the platforms should read Chapters 1, 2, and 9. A user who wanted to develop Java applications or applets for DB2 on a supporting platform should read Chapters 1, 2, and 10.
Since DB2 API calls can be made from either the embedded SQL, CLI, or JDBC programming interfaces, a user who wanted to develop DB2 API applications using one of these interfaces should read the appropriate set of chapters given above.