IBM DB2 Everyplace Sync Server Administration Guide Version 7 Release 2 Modification 1


Components of the DB2 Everyplace solution

The DB2 Everyplace solution for mobile data synchronization includes the following main components:

DB2 Everyplace database engine
Software that runs on the mobile device and allows users to access and modify a local copy of data from a source system. See the DB2 Everyplace Application Development Guide for information about the DB2 Everyplace database engine and how to write applications that use the database software.

DB2 Everyplace Sync Server
A client/server program that manages two-way data synchronization between a source and a target database.

The Sync Server acts as an intermediary between the synchronization client software on the mobile device and the DB2 UDB database or the JDBC database on the source server. The Mobile Devices Administration Center, a graphical administration tool for the Sync Server, allows you to define subsets of data and files to be accessed by groups of users. The Sync Server accesses this administration information each time a user requests data synchronization.

DB2 Everyplace Mobile Application Builder
A rapid application development tool that allows you to both build and test DB2 Everyplace applications for mobile devices. Refer to the online help for DB2 Everyplace Mobile Application Builder for more information about this tool.

Figure 1 shows how the tools in the solution work together.

Figure 1. How the tools in the DB2 Everyplace solution work together



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To set up the DB2 Everyplace solution, you perform two main tasks:

  1. Develop DB2 Everyplace applications.

    These applications provide mobile users access to DB2 Everyplace database tables on their mobile devices. You can develop DB2 Everyplace applications using DB2 Everyplace Mobile Application Builder or another suite of application development tools for mobile devices. See the DB2 Everyplace Application Development Guide for more information on developing applications for DB2 Everyplace.

  2. Set up and monitor synchronization.

    You define data from the source server to be accessed by each group of users. Mobile workers use the DB2 Everyplace Sync Client's API or icon to connect to the server and copy source data to their mobile devices. They modify this data using these applications and then synchronize their changes with the source database.


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