This zip archive contains two sample applications that show the two methods for connecting to a DB2 server : NET driver and Application driver. The application is a similar to Sybase's command line tool ISQL. The two applications are DB2net1 and DB2App1. DB2net1 can be run from a machine with JRE installed. DBapp1 requires the DB2 client software be installed on the system and for the databases you will be accesing to be cataloged. Windows Usage: Once you have extracted all of the files from the zip archive you will need to run the script "db2net1.cmd" or "db2app1.cmd" from a command prompt on a windows system. Solaris Usage: If you are trying to run DB2app1 from Solaris you need to do the following: 1) Connect to one of the sbpub systems 2) cd to the location of the sample applications 3) source ~db2inst1/db2cshrc 4) java DB2app1 If you are trying to run DB2Net1 from solaris you need to do the following: 1) cd to the location of the sample applications 2) unzip -x db2java.zip 3) rm db2java.zip 4) java DB2net1 Sample Commands: Once you have connected to DB2 using the tool you should try the following sequence of commands: create table test (num int) go insert into test values(10) go insert into test values(150) go select * from test go drop table test go select * from test go