Getting Startedwith pureQuery

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Getting Started with pureQuery
1.9 Exercises
We will use this first exercise to ensure your environment is ready to install Optim
Development Studio and to ensure you have all the required software downloaded for
future exercises. Follow these instructions:
1. Ensure your computer is using one of the supported Windows or Linux operating
systems as described in this technote: http://www-
01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=4014&uid=swg27015710
An IBM or Sun® Java Runtime Environment at version 1.5.0 or higher must be
installed on your system and for development you need the IBM Data Server
Driver for JDBC and SQLJ V3.57. For applications using the db2jcc4.jar file: IBM
Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ V4.7 or later. (These prerequisites are all
included with Optim Development Studio for development purposes).
2. Download Optim Development Studio. If you do not already own it, you can
download a 30-day trial from:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/im/datastudiodev/. If you are a
university student, your university may have an academic license to use it – if not,
use the trial version above. You will learn how to install the product in Chapter 2.
3. If you don’t already have DB2, you can download DB2 Express-C. We will use the
free version of DB2, DB2 Express-C, for the examples used in this book. To
download the latest version of DB2 Express-C, click this link and choose the
appropriate file to download for the operating system you are using.
4. Explore the Optim Development Studio and pureQuery information topics, which
are located in the Integrated Data Management Information Center at this location.
1.10 Review Questions
1. What are the four facets that comprise the pureQuery platform?
2. True or false: pureQuery client monitoring capabilities are only of value to DBAs?
Why or why not?
3. True or false: pureQuery competes directly with Java frameworks such as
Hibernate.