36 Data Sharing in a Nutshell
However, there are some facets of an application's behavior that may be
candidates for change to take the greater advantage of data sharing's
capabilities. These facets include portability, commit frequency and concurrency.
Refer to Parallel Sysplex Application Considerations, SG24-6523, for a more
complete discussion of these topics.
2.5.1 Portability
The continuous availability and dynamic workload balancing capabilities of data
sharing will not provide much business benefit if application processes are not
portable across members of a data sharing group.
Application portability in the context of data sharing means the ability of an
application process (transaction, task, or query) to execute on more than one ...