Overview of the CICS DB2 interface

This section gives an overview of the CICS® interface to DB2®.

Overview: How CICS connects to DB2
A CICS DB2 attachment facility is provided with CICS. The CICS DB2 attachment facility provides CICS applications with access to DB2 data while operating in the CICS environment.
Overview: How threads work
Each CICS transaction needs its own thread to access DB2.
Overview: Enabling CICS application programs to access DB2
A CICS application program that accesses DB2 must be prepared in the same way as a normal CICS application program, and must also go through DB2's bind process to produce an application plan.

Parent topic: Access to databases and data sets