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Figure 11-3 illustrates the two-phase commit.
Figure 11-3 Two-phase commit
Most widely used transaction management systems on z/VSE, such as CICS,
support two-phase commit protocols. CICS, for example, supports full two-phase
commit in transactions with the DB2 database management system, and
supports two-phase commit across distributed CICS systems.
11.4 What is CICS?
CICS stands for Customer Information Control System
1
. It is a general-purpose
transaction processing subsystem for the z/VSE and z/OS operating systems.
CICS provides services for running an application online, by request, ...