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Preface
DB2® for z/OS® takes advantage of data sharing technology in a z Parallel
Sysplex® to provide applications with full concurrent read and write access to
shared DB2 data. Data sharing allows users on multiple DB2 subsystems,
members of a data sharing group, to share a single copy of the DB2 catalog,
directory, and user data sets.
Data sharing provides improvements to availability and capacity without
impacting existing applications.
The road to data sharing might seem arduous to a novice user, but once you
have started to learn terminology and gain basic understanding, things will
become much easier.
This IBM Redbook is meant to facilitate your journey towards data sharing by
providing ...