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2.3 CICS DB2 Attachment Facility
In this section, we discuss the CICS DB2 Attachment Facility.
2.3.1 Why we use the CICS DB2 Attachment Facility
Figure 2-5 illustrates the CICS DB2 attachment.
Figure 2-5 The CICS DB2 attachment
Our bank takes advantage of the DB2 data sharing technology in a z Parallel
Sysplex to provide CICS applications with full concurrent read and write access
to shared DB2 data.
CICS allows application programs to have access to relational SQL databases,
such as DB2. Using SQL requests in CICS application programs allows you to
fetch, update, define, or to authorize requests against database tables ...