Chapter 14. Attachment Programming

  • Attachments

  • TSO

  • CICS

  • MS

  • CAF

  • RRSAF

The attachment facilities are the parts of DB2 that allow programs to connect to DB2, process SQL statements, and issue commands. Some of the attachment facilities allow programs to use the DB2 instrumentation facility interface (IFI) calls as well as SQL statements. All DB2 programs that run on z/OS and OS/390 systems use one of the attachment facilities.

The DB2 ODBC and CLI interfaces are not covered in this section because they don't have their own attachment. Instead, the DB2 ODBC driver modules use either Call Attach Facility (CAF) or Recoverable Resource Manager Services Attachment Facility (RRSAF) behind the scenes to communicate with the DB2 address spaces and process requests. ...

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