The DB2 II family supports a wide variety of data sources, including commercial relational DBMSs, non-relational DBMSs, mainframe data, XML files, Web services, message queues and more. Learn how to configure DB2 II to read and write to tables and views managed by MySQL, an open source DBMS. Once you've done this, you'll be able to join and union data in your MySQL database with other corporate data accessible to your DB2 II federated database.