14.9. Summary
In this chapter you learned a number of topics relating to the DB2 process model. A connection is first accepted by a process called a listener, and there are different listeners for different communication protocols. After an application connects to a database, a process is created and assigned to do work on behalf of the application. This process is called a coordinator agent (db2agent). In a partitioned database environment, or if intra-partition parallelism is enabled, the coordinator agent distributes work to subagents (db2agntp). These subagents perform the work and return the result to the coordinator agent to return to the application.
Since DB2 processes live within the DB2 engine, processes are also called DB2 Engine Dispatchable ...
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