In a client/server environment be sure to describe the application in both the 

client and server environment.

2.3  System planning

Based on your application profile created during the application assessment, you 

should be able to plan your target system properly.

As DB2 UDB supports different hardware platforms and multiple operating 

systems like Linux, Windows, and AIX etc., you are not limited in one platform to 

migrate your databases to. You can select on which system the migrated 

application should run based on the application nature and future enhancement 

requirements.

As shown in Figure 2 1, the target system can be the same system as the source 

system, or a different one with a different operating system and hardware. You 

might even want to make your database server a separate machine from the 

machine your application runs on (

two tier architecture

).

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