Transactional support scenarios

Using transactional support you can enable your applications to work reliably with databases.

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This section introduces transactional support. The work required to enable your applications to use IBM WebSphere® MQ with a database product spans the areas of application programming and system administration. Use the information here together with Committing and backing out units of work.

We start by introducing the units of work that form transactions, then describe the ways in which you enable IBM WebSphere MQ to coordinate transactions with databases.