From the IBM website:
Shadow Direct** from NEON System, Inc.[22] is an OLTP-oriented solution for DB2 access, including features like optimized ODBC** catalogs, dynamic-to-static SQL conversion, and data stream compression. The Shadow Direct allows popular ODBC-compliant desktop applications to run seamlessly and transparently with data retrieved from enterprise DB2 tables, IMS message queues and databases, existing CICS transactions,
Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) files, and other data sources.
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