Parallel Sysplex Support

DB2 has the ability to run in a parallel sysplex environment. This environment is required to support DB2 data sharing (refer to Chapter 9 for more details), allowing us to configure an environment in which several processors can share data and the DB2 subsystems can have concurrent read/write access to this data. A parallel sysplex environment also gives us flexibility for adding new processors for added throughput, seamlessly routing workload away from failed processors, and balancing diverse work across multiple processors.