Description
IBM InfoSphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS offers direct virtualized SQL access to mainframe data sources. It supports Windows and UNIX tools and applications and provides federated read and write access to data stored in a wide variety of databases. Can access data stored in VSAM, IMS, CA-IDMS, CA-Datacom, Software AG Adabas, and DB2 UDB for z/OS databases by dynamically translating JDBC and ODBC SQL statements into native read/write APIs. It is driven by metadata that contains a mapping of physical databases and files to logical relational tables, mainframe data appears to be one relational database and supports SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE SQL statements and stored procedure calls.