Scenarios for using Db2
Scenarios can illustrate how some organizations might successfully use Db2.
What do the following situations have in common?
- An international bank that provides uninterrupted services to its customers 24 hours a day.
- A multi-campus university system that educates thousands of students and offers hundreds of courses.
- An electric company that provides electricity to a large geographic region.
If you are new to Db2, you might wonder how these and other organizations use the product. You might wonder what types of organizations use Db2. Maybe you wonder if the organizations that use Db2 have all, or only a portion, of their data on the enterprise server. (Sometimes people refer to the enterprise server as the "mainframe.") You might wonder why organizations still continue to put their core business data on the mainframe.