20 Chapter 20. ODBA from DB2 stored procedures The IBM DB2 stored procedures environment is a case of the general ODBA server structure described in Chapter 19, "Open Database Access" on page 359. A stored procedure can issue database DL/I requests through an ODBA interface that is implemented in DB2 stored procedures environment. In this chapter, we provide the information about the structure of ODBA from DB2 stored procedures, the general request and response flow from a DRDA client, and some examples of DB2 stored procedures accessing an IMS system through the ODBA. © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006. All rights reserved. 383