What is IBM DB2 UDBs Data Links?
IBM DB2 UDB’s Data Links technology extends the mission-critical relational DBMS capabilities of referential integrity, value-based security, transactional consistency and coordinated backup and recovery to file systems. Data Links manages files that reside outside the database as though they are logically within the database. It guarantees referential integrity to these external files, provides enhanced access control to them, and supports automatic and coordinated backup and restore capability within transactional environments that are crucial for data management. Data Links simplifies and reduces system administration costs and complexities, by providing a single administration point for file and database data. Data Links technology thus enables a powerful symbiotic relationship between IBM DB2 UDB and file systems.
