Data reengineering with CICS VT

The primary purpose of CICS® VT is to provide a transparent interface to your legacy programs, so that data can be retrieved from DB2® without any program changes. At the same time, you can enhance the value of your existing data by using the data re-engineering capabilities provided by CICS VT.

For example, the date fields in your VSAM file can become DB2 DATE columns, and CICS VT will handle the data translation automatically. Similarly, zoned decimal fields can become integer or decimal columns in DB2 . This allows you to exploit many of the built-in SQL functions when accessing the DB2 tables outside of your legacy programs.


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