IMS DB/DC Not Suitable for Batch programs, why

The interesting point is DB/DC does contain both transaction manager and database manager. So this region supports to CICS to access IMS database. Except BATCH it supports for all kinds of transactions.

Batch Jobs

Note: Pure BATCH runs under MVS address space. So BATCH jobs cannot access IMS database, unless they used as BMP (Batch).

Online Transactions

DBCTL- Since this region does installed only database manager. It supports for CICS programs and BMP batch programs. Also for DB2 stored procedures through ODBC.

DCCTL – It does support for BMP,MPP, and IFP programs. Since this region does installed only transaction manager.

Please note that BATCH, BMP(BATCH) and BMP(txn) all are different.

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