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14.1. The DB2 Process Model: The Big Picture

Figure 14.1 shows the DB2 engine process model. This illustrates what happens behind the scenes when a client application connects to a DB2 database.

Figure 14.1. The DB2 process model

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As shown in Figure 14.1, a client application connects to the DB2 database server using one of the supported communication protocols.

Local client applications connect to the database server using the Inter-Process Communication (IPC) protocol.
Remote client applications connect to the database server using the TCP/IP, NetBIOS, or Named Pipes communication protocol.

NOTE

NetBIOS and Named Pipes are ...

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