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For further discussion of configuration flexibility and systems management, see
Chapter 1 of the DB2 for z/OS Version 8 Data Sharing: Planning and
Administration, SC18-7417.
2.5 Application considerations in data sharing
One of the advantages of data sharing is that applications do not have to be
aware that the DB2 environment has become a data sharing environment. In
general, applications do not need to know upon which member they are
executing, nor how many members are in the group, nor which other applications
are currently executing. In addition, the SQL interface does not change, so most
applications ...