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<h2 id="components">Components</h2> <ul><li>Application Requester (AR). The AR accepts <a href="/facts/SQL/UjQLJcYm">SQL</a> requests from an application and sends them to the appropriate application servers for processing. Using this function, application programs can access remote data.</li> <li>Application Server (AS). The AS receives requests from application requesters and processes them. The AS acts upon the portions that can be processed and forwards the remainder to database servers for subsequent processing. The AR and the AS communicate through a <a href="/facts/Protocol_(computing)/5uady7cB">protocol</a> called the <i>Application Support Protocol</i> which handles <a href="/facts/Data_conversion/ovcQxA3K">data representation conversion</a>.</li> <li>Database Server (DS). The DS receives requests from AS or other DS servers. The DS supports distributed requests and will forward parts of the request to collaborating DS in order to fulfill the request. The AS and the DS among themselves communicate through a <a href="/facts/Protocol_(computing)/5uady7cB">protocol</a> called the <i>Database Support Protocol</i>.</li></ul> <h2 id="databases-supporting-drda">Databases supporting DRDA</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Apache_Derby/vSE2vVtG">Apache Derby (Java RDBMS)</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/IBM_Db2/2cYITuuY">IBM Db2</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/IBM_Informix_Dynamic_Server/jDdeW93c">Informix Dynamic Server</a> v11.10</li> <li>Oracle Database Gateway for DRDA - enables Oracle database to act as a DRDA client, accessing remote non-Oracle databases (primarily DB2)</li> <li>Oracle Database Provider for DRDA - enables Oracle database to act as a DRDA server, providing Oracle database access to remote clients (e.g. IBM i systems using DB2/400 DRDA client library)</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.opengroup.org/dbiop/">The OpenGroup - DRDA Protocol description</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051122204300/http://www.opengroup.org/dbiop/">Archived</a> 2005-11-22 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul>