Overview: Working with the WAP Interface

The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is designed specifically for delivering Internet data over wireless networks, which are mainly used for voice communication. The normal way to serve WAP content is to have a WAP gateway server sitting between the wireless networks and a standard web server. Correspondingly, Wireless Markup Language (WML) was designed to describe how WAP content is presented on a wireless terminal. Some WAP-enabled phones have been produced to access the WAP services. The wireless device contains a microbrowser, while the content and applications are hosted on Web servers.

For Web Query, this means that you may access the content in DB2, using most functions available through the Web in a normal (standard) Web browser. You may create and run SQL queries, save these queries and their results for later use, view query results through the WAP interface row-by-row, email query results, and create new DB2 tables.