posted 17 years ago
You can use the db2 net client driver to access the database remotely, although I rarely see that in production.
Usually, the db2 client application is installed on the remote machine. I think it used to be called db2connect, but it's been rebranded. When that's installed, you connect locally to db2connect, as though it were a local database. Then, db2connect takes care of the network communication in a reliable manner that maintains all XA transaction semantics.
-Cameron McKenzie