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Old 02-27-2008, 03:47 AM
Mark A
 
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Default Re: DB2 Client Access Licensing Question

"Larry" <larry@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> To clarify, you can use ODBC, JDBC, JDBC type-4 if you wish to access
> DB2 on Linux, UNIX, Windows. There are, however, two different types of
> server licenses: Enterprise Standard Edition and Workgroup Edition. ESE
> is licensed on a processor basis ... and processors on that server must
> be licensed for ESE ... no matter how many client connections you have.
> WE is different, however, as it has a per-user license option. If you
> have that option, then you must license each DB2 client connection that
> comes into that server.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Larry Edelstein
>

But you can use connection pooling to limit the number of simultaneous
connections, without worrying about how many clients think they are
connected.

Right?


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