
6 Data Sharing in a Nutshell
1.3.1 Improved data availability
Demand is increasing for access to DB2 data — all day, every day. Data sharing
helps you meet your service objectives by improving data availability during both
planned and unplanned outages.
Data sharing provides multiple paths to data. This means that a member can be
down, and applications can still access the data through other members of the
data sharing group. As Figure 1-4 illustrates, when an outage occurs and one
member is down, transaction managers can dynamically direct new application
requests to another member of the group for both SNA and TCP/IP transactions.
Figure 1-4 ...